# Demo Prompts

These prompts were used as live illustrations during the Skye session. If you attended Fort William or Oban, these won't be familiar — but they're worth having.

Each one is a simple example of a different AI capability: asking for advice, stress testing an idea, and generating an image.

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## Quick question

A straightforward example of asking AI for practical advice — the kind of thing you might google but get a much better answer from a conversation.

> I'm thinking of buying a new office chair. What features should I be looking for?

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## Stress testing your own idea

A simpler version of the stress test prompt — used here as a live demo with the audience. The instruction to ask one question at a time forces a slower, more thorough conversation rather than a single dump of concerns.

> I want you to help me stress test an idea. I will give you the basic scenario and I want you to keep asking me questions to help me flesh out the details, challenge my assumptions and uncover hidden risks and potential problems. Don't be encouraging — find the weak assumptions, the things I'm glossing over, and the scenarios where this goes wrong.
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> **Important**: Ask one question at a time and keep going until you run out of questions or I tell you to stop.
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> My idea is that I want to open an American BBQ restaurant in Portree on Skye.

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## Image generation

An example of a detailed image generation prompt. The specificity is intentional — AI image generators respond well to concrete visual detail, and vague prompts produce generic results.

> A photorealistic picture of a red Ferrari parked on a single track Highland road. The car is viewed from a quarter angle and the wheels are turned in slightly for effect. In the background the Black Cuillin mountains rear up with the peak of Sgurr nan Gillean clearly visible. The sun is shining and there is light cloud high in the atmosphere but not low enough to obscure the mountains. Do not include any text.
