After reading a paper in class regarding different ways to prompt AI, it allowed for more creative outlook on how to use AI (White et al., 2023). The most used type of prompting if I recall was in the form of persona. This is where you ask AI to impersonate whatever you would like. This is where creativity comes into it. I had Gemini (2.0 Flash) pretend it was an interviewer to try and see what kind of generic questions would come my way when I get that far into the job search. The specific prompt was, “You are a interviewer and I am the person you are interested in hiring, what questions would you ask me that would most relate to the geology field?” trying to focus on the field that I would be applying to. I understand most jobs will ask more specific questions regarding to what the company does, but I felt this is a good starting place for generic thought provoking questions. This kind of prompting goes further than just interviews. This simulates any kind of important conversation someone might have in which they want to prepare for. The less likely you are to be caught off guard, the better.

The response was not exactly what I had expected in terms of a conversation between interviewer and interviewee, but there were really good points brought up in why Gemini asked specific questions. It started with a generic greeting, and went straight into a line of questioning. What I found really neat about these though are the fact Gemini would explain what type of questions they were and what purpose that question would achieve by answering.

Link to paper cited: https://app.perusall.com/courses/writing-with-ai-sp25-gmds-19907-01/white-et-al-prompt-pattern-catalogue?assignmentId=6H83biAZq4wnKiRbg&part=1