Commentary: Productivity implications for generative AI role-based prompts as a networked hermeneutic

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Commentary for Membership categorisation, sociological description and role prompt engineering with ChatGPT – William Housley, Patrik Dahl, 2024 (opens in new tab)

As Housley and Dahl (2024) (opens in new tab) demonstrate, role-based prompts for Generative AI (GenAI) systems are based on vernacular resources of membership categorization and action description, representing a networked hermeneutic of lay and professional sociology. As a Microsoft Human-Computer Interaction researcher, I see three implications for designing GenAI systems for productivity.