Suggesting ideas

Purpose

The purpose of this prompt is to help suggest ideas for a given scenario such as essays, projects, research, etc.

 Acknowledge

Please check and follow your local guidelines about whether this use of generative AI is permitted. If it is permitted and if you use this prompt in the process of creating work for assessment, you may need to acknowledge the use of AI.

Prompt

Note: The following prompts were tested in Microsoft Copilot for Web. It is most suitable for language based generative AI.

You are a researcher in integrated circuits. Suggest ideas for a presentation on the topic of emerging research trends and provide reasoning for the suggestion. Include multiple ideas and a short description of how to expand on the idea.

Alternatives:

You are an expert in <FIELD>. Suggest different approaches for <TASK> on the topic of <TOPIC>. Include multiple ideas and list them in order of most innovative to least. Be prepared to provide more examples.

You are a/an <RELEVANT ROLE> in <FIELD>. Come up with different approaches for <TASK> related to <TOPIC>. Provide multiple ideas and list them in a table form in which one column is the reasoning of why to use this idea. Be prepared to provide more explanation.

Follow-up prompt (optional):

Please provide more ideas.

Expand on idea number <NUMBER>.

Please give more explanation on each idea.

Explanation

This prompt gives the AI a role (researcher), the task (suggest ideas), and instructions (how it should structure and write the completion). 

This prompt asks for idea suggestions that you can use for a given scenario. This is useful for brainstorming and gathering ideas before you start working on a project and other scenarios where a pool of ideas is desired before finalising on specific ones. It will provide a a list of ideas and possible directions to take. If further explanation is required follow-up prompts can be used to seek more information.