Tips & Tricks

Prompt engineering is not an exact science, and sometimes getting an AI to do what you want can seem more like dumb luck than anything else. You get surprised, positively as well as negatively, when it oneshots something you thought it would struggle with or when it messes up something rather trivial.

Nevertheless, we will try to give you a few tips and tricks to get higher quality output from the AI in Henosia.

Describe the outcome

You can give Henosia a big request. It breaks the work into steps and works through them. What helps most is a clear picture of the result you want.

For instance, rather than ask

Please use the authentication data from Supabase on the site

describe the result:

Replace the mock name "John" with the name of the person logged in via Supabase, everywhere the site shows it.

If the result isn't quite right, follow up with what to change.

Specific vs. Vague

Depending on whether you have merely a vague idea or something very specific in mind you want Henosia to build, your prompts should reflect this. If you want something specific, give as specific instructions as you can:

• Don’t just write a color name, give an actual color code for the color
• Provide the font, font type or font family you want
• Define the exact spacings you want
• Provide an image, if that helps understand what you want built, and provide the context for the picture:
  • Should it focus on the color scheme?
  • Or the layout?
  • Or something else?
• Provide the exact labels, fields, buttons, etc. you want
• Define the order elements should appear in and how they should align

If on the other hand you merely have a vague idea, Henosia can be creative and inspire you, if you do not tie its hands with specific details, and it may come up with a much better first draft than you could have though of yourself.