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Fill a Template

Part of the Prompting Techniques section of Coddy's AI Prompts journey. Lesson 14 of 24.

Sometimes the output must match a form that already exists: a ticket system, a report, an order sheet. Give the AI the form itself, with blanks to fill, and it returns exactly those lines.

Fill in this template from the message in <message> tags. Keep the labels, replace each [ ] and reply with the filled template only.
<message>Hey all, we're doing a picnic in Riverside Park this Sunday, the 14th!</message>
Event: [ ]
Date: [ ]
Place: [ ]

Event: Picnic
Date: 14th
Place: Riverside Park

The template does the format work for you: the labels, their order and the number of lines are all fixed. Put the source text in tags before the template, so the AI does not mistake it for one more line to fill.

Challenge

Medium

Your warehouse logs every order on this form:

Item: [ ]
Quantity: [ ]
Address: [ ]

Fill it from this message:

Hi! Please send 2 boxes of printer paper to 14 Oak Road. Thanks, Mia

The AI's response must:

Be exactly 3 lines, each a label and a filled value
Have no [ ] left
Keep the quantity 2 and the house number 14

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All lessons in Prompting Techniques

1Show, Don't Tell

Zero-Shot vs Few-Shot Leave a Slot to Fill Examples Set the Format Examples Get Copied Recap: Show, Don't Tell

4Conversations

Refine, Don't Restart Big Jobs in Small Steps Summarize Before You Switch Same Prompt, Same Reply Recap: Conversations

2Structure Your Prompt

Wrap Text in Delimiters Answer Only From the Text The Prompt Recipe Let the AI Ask First Recap: Structure Your Prompt

5Final Challenges

Ticket Router Safe Guest Answers Booking From an Email Draft, Then Data

3Structured Output

Tables From Text Pull Data Out as JSON When Data Is MissingFill a TemplateRecap: Structured Output