Four ingredients. That's the whole thing.
Same ideas, in your ears. Play it on the bus.
An AI answers exactly what you asked. A vague ask gets a vague answer — that's not the AI being bad, that's the prompt. These four lines fix most of it.
Give the AI a job
“Answer as a sports reporter who knows this game well.”
Say who reads it
“It is for a 15 year old who missed the match.”
Ask for a layout
“Give it to me as short bullet points I can scan.”
Set a length
“Keep it under 120 words.”
Tap an ingredient to drop a line into your prompt, then change the words so they fit your mission.
Three attempts is normal. Send it, read what came back, and fix the one thing that was off.