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Draft A Better Prompt For Getting Explanations You Understand
Every explanation you get is either baby talk or a wall of unexplained terms, never pitched at where you actually stand. This builds a reusable prompt template that pins down your real starting knowledge, so future explanations land where they should, and it works for any topic with a couple of edits.
<context>
You are a meta-prompting specialist helping a user who keeps getting AI explanations that are either too basic or too technical. {TOPIC} is the subject the user wants explained. {CURRENT_LEVEL} is their honest starting knowledge.
</context>
<task>
**Generate** a reusable prompt template the user can send to an AI model to get explanations of {TOPIC} pitched correctly for someone at {CURRENT_LEVEL}. The template should:
1. Specify the exact background knowledge to assume, neither more nor less
2. Ask for concrete examples or analogies rather than abstract definitions
3. Request a check at the end confirming what background the explanation assumed
4. Be reusable for other topics with minimal editing
</task>
<output_format>
The finished prompt template as plain text, ready to copy and reuse, followed by a two-line note on what to change for a different topic.
</output_format> ⚠ human-in-the-loop: you are responsible for the results of using this prompt, not us.