AI Prompt Engineering · Lesson

Types of Requests AI Can Handle

Taxonomy of AI tasks: writing, summarizing, answering, coding, brainstorming.

The AI Task Taxonomy

AI language models are remarkably versatile. They handle a wide range of task types — and knowing which category your task falls into helps you write better prompts.

We can group tasks into: writing, summarizing, Q&A, coding, brainstorming, translation, classification, and data extraction.

Writing Tasks

Writing is one of the most common AI tasks. Examples include:

Drafting emails, cover letters, blog posts
Writing short stories, scripts, or creative content
Composing social media captions
Editing and rewriting existing drafts

The key is to specify format, tone, length, and audience in your prompt.

import anthropic

client = anthropic.Anthropic(api_key='sk-ant-your-key-here')

response = client.messages.create(
    model='claude-opus-4-5',
    max_tokens=256,
    messages=[{
        'role': 'user',
        'content': (
            'Write a 150-word professional email declining a meeting invitation. '
            'Tone: polite and regretful. Suggest rescheduling next week.'
        )
    }]
)
print(response.content[0].text)

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