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待翻译:Prompt engineering by Quick component: Patterns and pitfalls

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AI 服务暂时不可用,以下为来源摘要,待恢复后补全翻译:Part 2 of our Amazon Quick prompt engineering series goes component by component. Learn the prompt patterns that get the best results from Amazon Quick Research, Quick Flows, Quick Sight, chat agents, and action integrations, plus the common pitfalls to avoid.

来源AWS Machine Learning Blog作者: Daiquan Nkere
待翻译:Prompt engineering by Quick component: Patterns and pitfalls
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In Part 1 of this series, we covered the foundational principles of prompt engineering in Amazon Quick: specificity, context-setting, few-shot examples, and the CRISPE framework for complex requests. Those principles apply universally. In this post, we go component by component, showing you how each Quick capability interprets prompts differently and what patterns get the best results from each one. You might use Amazon Quick Research for market analysis, Amazon Quick Flows for automation, Amazon Quick Sight for data visualization, chat agents for team knowledge access, or action integrations for cross-system workflows. Whatever your goal, the following techniques will help you move from generic outputs to precise, actionable results. Quick Research Getting useful output from Amazon Quick Research depends on how you frame the research objective. The agent takes your objective, breaks it into sub-topics, searches across enterprise data and external sources, then delivers a structured report with citations. A vague objective produces a shallow report. A specific one produces something you can act on. Define the goal, the audience, and the focus areas The AWS documentation says it directly: “Be specific by stating what you want to achieve, for whom, and why.” A strong objective names the topic, scopes the timeframe, identifies the audience, and tells the agent what outputs matter most. Example: Analyze the adoption of generative AI across US hospital systems over the past 12 months. Zero in on two areas: clinical decision support tools and administrative automation (scheduling, billing, records management). Write the findings for a healthcare-IT executive audience deciding where to invest next. This objective tells the agent what to investigate, what lens to apply, and what the reader cares about. Quick Research uses this context to formulate sub-questions, select relevant data sources, and structure the report around your actual needs. Before writing your objective, ask yourself: What decision will this research inform? Who will read it? What would make them say “this is exactly what I needed”? Decompose complex topics into sub-questions Quick Research automatically breaks objectives into sub-topics, but you’ll get better results by doing some of that work yourself. For multifaceted research, list the specific questions you want answered. This gives the agent clearer direction and reduces the chance of it pursuing tangents. Scope your sources and review the plan Quick Research draws from enterprise data through Quick Index, 200+ trusted news outlets, and premium datasets from S&P Global, FactSet, IDC, US Patent data, and PubMed. After entering your objective, select which sources to include and review the draft research plan. A competitive analysis doesn’t need PubMed. A clinical literature review doesn’t need news articles. Narrowing the source set focuses the agent and reduces noise. Quick Flows The difference between a workflow that saves your team five minutes and one that saves five hours often comes down to how you write the prompt. Quick Flows transforms plain-language descriptions into automated workflows, but the specificity, structure, and context you provide directly shape what you get back. Be specific about the what, when, and where Vague prompts produce vague flows. The most common mistake is describing what you want without specifying how, when, or for whom. Before: “Create a report from our sales data.” After: “Every Monday at 8 AM, pull the previous week’s sales data from the CRM, calculate total revenue and top 10 products by units sold, generate a one-page PDF summary, and email it to the sales-managers distribution list.” The second prompt gives Quick Flows concrete anchors: a schedule, a data source, specific calculations, an output format, and a delivery target. Each detail maps to a step in the resulting flow. When defining triggers, be explicit about both the schedule and the conditions. “Every Monday at 8 AM” is clear. “When new data arrives” is vague. Specify what system generates the trigger, what constitutes “new data,” and what should happen if the trigger fires but no new data exists. Structure complex logic as numbered steps For workflows with more than two or three operations, write your prompt as a numbered sequence. Quick Flows supports conditional branching, repeat loops, and user inputs, and numbered steps map naturally to its internal step structure: Example: Build a flow that does the following: 1. Accept an uploaded expense report (PDF or image) as input. 2. Extract the total amount, vendor name, date, and expense category from the document. 3. If the total exceeds $500, route it to the finance team’s Slack channel for approval. 4. Once approved, log the expense in our Google Sheets tracker with all extracted fields plus the approval timestamp. This structure makes debugging straightforward: if step 3 isn’t working, you know exactly where to look. Iterate through conversation, not rewrites With the Quick Flows agentic runtime, you can refine flows through conversation after the initial build. Instead of rewriting your entire prompt, use targeted follow-up instructions: Example: Add a step between steps 2 and 3 that checks whether the data source returned any results. If the query comes back empty, send me a notification instead of continuing with the rest of the flow. Quick Flows retains context from the original prompt, so adjustments build on what’s already there. Quick Sight With Amazon Quick Sight, you can explore data through conversational queries. Structure your analytics requests to specify the business question, relevant dimensions, required calculations, and visualization preferences. Query structure for analytics Every effective Quick Sight query includes these core elements: A business question (what decision or insight you’re seeking). Metrics (the quantitative measures you want to analyze). Dimensions (how to group, filter, or segment the data). Time period (the relevant timeframe). Visualization type (the chart format that best communicates the insight). Additional analysis (trendlines, thresholds, statistical markers, or comparison periods). Omitting any of these forces Quick Sight to guess, which often produces a technically correct but unhelpful visualization. Analysis patterns Time series: “Plot customer-support ticket volume by priority level over the past 12 months as a stacked line chart. Add a trend line for total volume so I can see whether the overall load is rising or falling.” Comparative: “Compare average deal size by industry vertical and sales rep for Q4 2025. Show it as a grouped bar chart sorted by deal size descending, and highlight any vertical where our average is below $50K.” Relationship: “Build a scatter plot of customer lifetime value versus product usage frequency. Color-code the dots by subscription tier and add a regression line so I can see how strongly usage predicts LTV.” Distribution: “Generate a histogram of project completion times over the last six months. Use two-week bins, overlay the target completion time as a vertical reference line, and call out any bin where more than 20% of projects landed.” Geographical: “Show a heat map of customer distribution across North America. Use color intensity to represent revenue concentration and add data labels for any region contributing more than 10% of total revenue.” Refining visuals and creating calculated fields When working with Topics (curated data collections optimized for conversational queries), frame your questions around business outcomes rather than data mechanics. Instead of “show me a table of user counts,” ask “Which customer segments have the highest engagement with our mobile app, measured by daily active users and session duration?” After generating an initial visualization, refine through conversational follow-ups: change chart types, add filters, modify aggregations, or request calculated fields. Use natural language for formulas: Example: “Add a calculated field called ‘Customer Health Score’ that blends renewal probability (40% weight), product usage trend (35% weight), and support ticket frequency (25% weight, inverse — fewer tickets means healthier). Show it as a 0–100 index.” Quick chat agents Amazon Quick chat agents bring conversational AI into your organization. You control the agent’s identity, connect it to your company’s knowledge bases, set behavioral guardrails, and publish it to your team. The quality of the experience depends on how thoughtfully you configure the agent. Define a clear agent identity The identity field in Builder Mode sets the foundation for every response. A strong identity names the role, defines expertise, and draws clear boundaries: Example: You are a Cloud Cost Optimization Advisor for our FinOps team. Your expertise covers AWS cost management, reserved-instance planning, savings plans analysis, and resource right-sizing. Respond only to questions about cloud cost optimization. If a question falls outside that scope, say so and suggest the right team to contact instead. Without boundaries like these, agents tend to answer questions outside their expertise with confident but unreliable responses. Review your agent’s identity periodically as your team’s needs evolve. An identity written six months ago may no longer reflect current priorities, tools, or organizational structure. Connect the right knowledge and set guardrails Linking Quick Spaces to your agent determines what information it can draw from. Be deliberate: an agent connected to every Quick Space in your organization will surface irrelevant content. Match knowledge sources to the agent’s defined role. Equally important is telling the agent what to do when it doesn’t have an answer. Without explicit instructions, agents fill gaps with plausible but fabricated responses: Example: When you lack enough information to answer confidently, respond with: ‘I don’t have that in my current knowledge base. Please reach out to [relevant team] or check [specific resource] for the latest guidance.’ Never guess or fabricate an answer. Review connected Quick Spaces periodically. Outdated documentation is worse than no documentation because the agent will cite it with confidence. Remove stale sources and add new ones as your team’s knowledge evolves. Design suggested prompts that teach good habits Suggested prompts are the first thing users see. They set expectations and model the specificity the agent performs best with. Vague suggestions like “Ask me about costs” teach users to write vague prompts. Specific ones teach better habits: Example: “Which EC2 instance families in our production account have the lowest utilization over the past 30 days, and what would we save by right-sizing them?” Example: “Compare the cost impact of switching our on-demand RDS usage to a 1-year reserved plan versus a 3-year savings plan. Which option gives us the best balance of savings and flexibility?” Action integrations With action connectors, Quick can interact with external systems like Jira, Slack, Confluence, and Salesforce. Effective action prompts include clear intent, all necessary parameters, and proper sequencing. Parameter specification Provide all required information upfront. Incomplete parameters force the system to ask follow-up questions or make assumptions: Example: Create a Jira issue with these details: Project: CUSTOMER-SUPPORT Issue Type: Bug Summary: ‘[Customer Name] — [Brief Description]’ Priority: High Assignee: the on-call support engineer Labels: customer-reported, needs-triage Description: Include the reproduction steps, expected vs. actual behavior, and the customer’s account tier. Action sequencing Structure multi-step workflows with clear dependencies. Number the steps, specify conditions, and make it explicit which step’s [truncated for AI cost control]

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