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ROUNDS / INNOVATION
5 tips for
effective
AI prompts
An AI engineer and ED
physician gives advice
for getting the most out
of chatbots.
BY DINESH RAI, MD
L
ast year, Boston Children's Hospital hired
me as their first-ever prompt engineer-a
job that involves designing prompts for generative
AI tools. Put simply, prompts are the
requests or commands you type into ChatGPT
or other large language models.
Children's hospitals can use chatbots to
enhance their operations, reduce administrative
burdens, and augment staff's work, but it
can be difficult to know
how to make the most
of them. They are relatively
new tools built on
constantly
Learn how these
techniques work at
childrenshospitals
.org/chatbot.
evolving
technology. My experience as an emergency
room physician and a developer of successful
AI applications has helped me learn how to
maximize AI's potential in health care settings.
Here are five tips everyone can use.
Dinesh Rai, MD, is a clinical AI engineer at
Boston Children's Hospital.
Send questions or comments to
communications@childrenshospitals.org.
2.
1.
Be specific
Provide parameters to narrow
the model's potential output.
TRY THIS: Instead of saying " Tell me about antibiotic
resistance, " say " Provide a detailed explanation of the
mechanisms of carbapenem resistance in Klebsiella
pneumoniae, including the role of carbapenemases, porin
mutations, and efflux pumps. Discuss how these mechanisms
impact treatment options and infection control
measures in hospital settings. "
Ask for an explanation
Instruct the model to articulate the
thought process behind its output.
TRY THIS: " Walk me through the
process of diagnosing and initially
managing a patient presenting
with symptoms suggestive of
acute coronary syndrome. For
each step, explain your reasoning,
including what clinical findings,
risk factors, and diagnostic tests
you would consider, and how each
piece of information influences
your decision-making. "
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