{"id":1077624,"date":"2024-08-19T06:35:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T13:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-research-item&p=1077624"},"modified":"2025-06-19T06:59:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T13:59:46","slug":"productivity-implications-for-generative-ai-role-based-prompts-as-a-networked-hermeneutic","status":"publish","type":"msr-research-item","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/productivity-implications-for-generative-ai-role-based-prompts-as-a-networked-hermeneutic\/","title":{"rendered":"Commentary: Productivity implications for generative AI role-based prompts as a networked hermeneutic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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 As Housley and Dahl (2024) 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. 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