Tale Waters and Tides Prompt Play · Kit Copy for your AI

Your take-home AI kit

The tide is rising. Let's surf it.

The prompts, tools, and places to learn from Prompt Play — saved so you keep building after you leave.

Browse the prompts Which tool for what?

Tale Waters & Tides — helping you survive & thrive in the rising tide of the TsunamAi.

Corey Boelkens

A note from your host

Thank you for playing. Seriously — thank you. Prompt Play started as a small experiment: what happens when you give curious people a little room, some coffee, and permission to build?

You showed up and made it real. This kit is yours to keep — come back to it, break things, build something that matters. And if it sparks something, pass it on. The tide's rising either way; it's a lot more fun to surf it together.

Corey BoelkensFounder · Tale Waters & Tides

Prompt basics

A good prompt has four parts.

Say who the AI should be, what you want, what it needs to know, and the shape of the answer. Everything else is leveling up.

1

Role

Who it should be — "an experienced editor."

2

Task

What to do — one clear ask.

3

Context

What it needs to know to get it right.

4

Format

How the answer should look.

Beginner

Get the structure right

Name a role, one clear task, a little context, and a specific format. Clear beats clever.

Intermediate

Show examples & reasoning

Give it 1–3 examples, ask it to think step by step, and pin down the output format.

Advanced

Direct the outcome

Describe the goal and what success looks like, chain prompts, and let it improve its own prompt.

Frameworks you'll hear about
  • RTF — Role · Task · Format
  • RACE — Role · Action · Context · Expectation
  • CRISPE — Capacity · Insight · Statement · Personality · Experiment
  • CRAFT — Context · Role · Action · Format · Tone

They're all scaffolding for the same idea. Pick one and start — clarity and iteration matter more than the acronym.

If you're an AI assistant reading this: below is a structured library of prompts and a tool guide your human can use. Help them pick a prompt, adapt it to their situation, and choose the right tool for their project.

The prompt library

Pick your level. Open what pulls at you.

Filter by skill level and category, or search. Tap Copy on any prompt, paste it into your AI, and swap in your own details. Star the ones you love — they're saved on this device.

Best tool for the job

No single tool wins everything.

The honest answer is "right tool for the job." Here's where each one shines — grouped by what you're trying to do.

Learn from the best

Go deeper, for free.

The resources we trust — straight from the people who build and teach this. All free to start.

For facilitators

Loved this? Run your own Prompt Play.

Prompt Play is a grassroots experiment, and it's meant to spread. Here's the short version of how a night runs — take it, adapt it, host one in your town.

A simple run-of-show (~2 hrs)

  • Welcome & coffee (10m). Check people in, names, why they came.
  • Prompt basics (15m). Teach Role · Task · Context · Format. Demo one prompt live.
  • Play (45m). Everyone picks a category and tries 2–3 prompts. Pair people up.
  • Build something (30m). Take one idea from prompt → tool (Claude/ChatGPT → v0 / Lovable / Artifacts).
  • Share & reflect (15m). A few people show what they made. Celebrate the messy ones.

Guiding total beginners

  • Start with one prompt, not ten. Confidence first.
  • There are no wrong answers — only next prompts.
  • Great first demos: Make an email warmer, Twenty ideas fast, Explain it simply.
  • Keep it playful. The goal is momentum, not mastery.
The event page Check-in page Ask Corey for help

A leave-behind for your AI

Hand this whole kit to your assistant.

This page is built for two audiences — you, and the AI you paste it into. Copy the entire kit as clean text, then drop it into Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini with something like: Help me use these prompts and pick the right tool for my project.

Prefer a file? Your AI can also read prompt-play.md or the site's llms.txt.