AI guides

Practical help for everyday AI use

AI chat is easy to start and surprisingly hard to use well. The same assistant can give a vague, generic reply or a precise, useful one, depending on how you ask and how you check the result. These guides are short courses in doing it well: concrete steps, examples of weak and strong prompts, and honest notes on where AI goes wrong.

Start with the basics

If you are new to AI chat, begin with how to write prompts, which covers the habits that improve almost every answer. Then read how to fact-check AI answers and AI privacy and safety, so you know what to verify and what never to type into a chat. For a look under the hood, how AI chatbots work explains in plain words why they are good at language and still make things up.

Guides for specific goals

• AI for students: studying, revising and writing honestly with AI help.
• AI for coding: debugging, explaining code and writing tests.
• AI writing tips: drafting and editing text that still sounds like you.
• AI for job search: CVs, cover letters and interview practice.
• AI for small business: everyday marketing, customer emails and planning.
• AI for language learning: conversation practice, corrections and vocabulary.

Every guide links to the matching AI tools and prompts, and many examples open directly in the chat, so you can try each technique as you read.