10-Minute Challenge

The Prompt That Confused the AI

Spot the Mistake

Something's not quite right... but can you spot it? Today's challenge puts your English detective skills to the test. Find the mistake, explain what's wrong & make it right. Watch out, though — some errors are much harder to notice than others!
You need:
Your language detective skills

Quick Start

1
Read carefully & spot the mistake
2
Correct it without changing the meaning
3
Reveal the answer & compare

Let's Begin!

A developer is asking an AI assistant to help with an ordinary software issue. The assistant understands most of the requests—but a few could be clearer or more natural.

Read these six prompts. Find the language problems, improve them where needed, and decide which requests are already fine. You don’t need any programming knowledge.

  1. “Can you explain me why this file is missing?”
  2. “Tell me what does this warning mean.”
  3. “Give me an advice on how to make the message clearer.”
  4. “Summarise the problem in three short sentences.”
  5. “Make this better.”
  6. “Please show me an example, but don’t change the original text.”

Extra challenge: Rewrite “Make this better” as a useful instruction to an AI assistant, specifying the audience, goal and one constraint. Aim for no more than two sentences.

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