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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)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Housley and Dahl (2024) (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","msr-author-ordering":[{"type":"user_nicename","value":"Sean Rintel","user_id":"33579"}],"msr_publishername":"","msr_publisher_other":"","msr_booktitle":"","msr_chapter":"","msr_edition":"","msr_editors":"","msr_how_published":"","msr_isbn":"","msr_issue":"","msr_journal":"Discourse & Communication","msr_number":"","msr_organization":"","msr_pages_string":"","msr_page_range_start":"","msr_page_range_end":"","msr_series":"","msr_volume":"","msr_copyright":"[OnlineFirst reference] Rintel, S. 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