Role Prompting
Set the persona before giving the task: how to assign an AI a concrete identity — a senior editor, a hiring manager, a product lead — so it reasons and answers from that role's perspective and voice, with copy-ready role-prompting patterns you can reuse across tasks.
Role prompting is the technique of giving the model an identity before the task: ask the AI to think and answer as a senior interviewer, a product manager, or an editor, and the wording, emphasis, and judgment criteria of its answers shift with the role. This topic explains what makes a role description effective, when constraining the model with a persona helps and when it backfires, and offers several copy-ready role-prompting patterns.
