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title: "A Simpler Approach to Prompt Templates"
author: "Lax Mariappan"
date: "2025-06-29"
categories: ["AI"]
excerpt: "Prompt templates are so helpful. Recently, I tried using different templates. There is no one-size-fits-all template. You need to choose the one that suits the task. Start a chat with the models, and observe the quality of the output. Then ask the model itself: How would you rate my prompts? What am I missing?  Ask […]"
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# A Simpler Approach to Prompt Templates

Prompt templates are so helpful.

Recently, I tried using different templates.

There is no one-size-fits-all template.

You need to choose the one that suits the task.

Start a chat with the models, and observe the quality of the output.

Then ask the model itself: How would you rate my prompts? What am I missing? 

Ask for a prompt template.

Repeat this for a few regular tasks that you do, be it coding, image generation or research.

After a couple of rounds, you will have some prompt templates.

This is not a silver bullet; however, you will get better results.

Here is one I got from Cursor, with Claude Sonnet 4:

Goal: Refactor my code with minimal code duplication.

Constraints:

Follow WP coding standards

Checklist:

[ ] Remove duplicate code

[ ] Add doc blocks & useful comments

Current context:Here’s my current code:

// …code…

What I want:First, outline the steps. Once I confirm, do the code changes.

(If needed) Can you recap what we’ve done so far and what’s left?