Prompt Engineering - lesson 5 | HackIndia Skills

Prompt Engineering - lesson 5 | HackIndia Skills | HackIndia

Example

Example flow

Suppose your hackathon project helps students turn a messy WhatsApp internship post into a clean application checklist.

Do not generate the final checklist directly. First extract fields. Then validate. Then draft the checklist.

User text:
"Hiring backend intern. Pune. 3 months. Stipend 15k. Send resume and GitHub by Friday to [email protected]"

Call 1: Extract
Return JSON with role, location, duration, stipend, deadline, contact, required_documents.

Call 2: Validate
Check if any field is missing or unclear. Return {"ok": true/false, "missing": [], "risks": []}.

Call 3: Draft
Only if ok is true, write a student-friendly checklist using the extracted JSON.

Example

Tiny code pattern

This is the control flow you want. The exact model call can be OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, or another API your team is using.

async function makeChecklist(rawPost) {
  const extracted = await extractPost(rawPost);

  const validation = await validatePost(extracted);
  if (!validation.ok) {
    return {
      status: "needs_more_info",
      message: "Please add: " + validation.missing.join(", ")
    };
  }

  const checklist = await draftChecklist(extracted);
  return {
    status: "ready",
    checklist
  };
}

Split Hard Tasks Safely

One safe chain

Why split tasks

Use a gate

Example flow

Common mistake

Name each step

Tiny code pattern

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