Wrangling GenAI: Optimising prompts for Visual Tasks

When I wrote the first version of the magic cleaning tasks generator for Hounty I wasn't particularly happy with it, but I thought that this is as good as it gets with Generative AI APIs and let it be till I have time to train my own model. Well, today I proved myself wrong and I want to show you exactly how I managed to drastically improve performance by adjusting the prompt in a few inconventional ways. I encourage you to follow along and try the prompts yourself. I used Gemini and Claude, but pretty much any chat AI app or API should work. And if you have never worked with GenAI - that's no problem - you don't have to have any prior knowledge to follow along. The Task Here is a picture of my living room this morning: It looks like this a few days a week and every time it's a chore to get started. I do rely on Hounty to tell me what to do and where to start. So let's try and replicate the core functionality with nothing but prompts and see how to improve them. Take one: You are an ex