Your first ten questions to ask an AI app

Your friend says this app can do anything. You opened it, saw an empty box, and could not think of one thing to type. So you closed it and went back to the videos.

This lesson gives you ten questions you can copy. Each one does a real job for a real person. Between them they cover the six things the app does well. Explaining, practising, writing, planning, translating, and helping you ask better questions. Ask three of them today and you will know what this tool is for.

One line you add to every question

The app writes harder English than you need. Left alone, it answers far above class 8 level. That is not a fault you have to live with. You just have to tell it your level.

Add these three lines under any question you ask.

Reply in very simple English. Sentences under 15 words.
I have passed class 8. Put the Hindi meaning of hard words in brackets.
If you are not sure about something, write NOT SURE. Do not guess.

The last line matters more than it looks. The model learned on tests where a guess scored better than a blank. So it guesses, in the same calm voice it uses when it knows. Telling it that NOT SURE is allowed makes the guessing easier to spot. It does not catch every guess. Check anything that matters against a book, an office or an official website.

One more thing is worth adding, and it helps more than any clever wording. Tell it about you. Your class, your district, your exam, your budget in rupees. The app knows nothing about you until you type it. The same question with your situation in it comes back far more useful.

One last habit before you start. Write each question in one language. Plain English, or plain Hindi. Half and half gives a weaker answer, and there is a full lesson on using AI in Hindi later in this module.

Four questions for your studies

These four cover most of what a student needs in an ordinary week. Fill in your own topic and your own class where the words in brackets are.

1. Explain a school topic.

Explain photosynthesis to me.
I have passed class 8. Use sentences under 15 words.
Give one example I can see in my village.
Then ask me two questions to check if I understood.

A good answer has short lines and one example you recognise. No word in it should send you looking for a dictionary. If it still reads like a textbook, reply: that was too hard, write it simpler. Asking twice is normal.

2. Practice sums.

Give me 5 practice sums on percentage, class 8 level.
Do not show the answers next to the questions.
Put all the answers at the end, under a line saying ANSWERS.

A good answer gives sums you can try alone, with the answers out of sight. Now do them, then check its answers by hand. It gets sums wrong more often than you would expect, and why it gets sums wrong explains that properly later.

3. Shrink a hard paragraph.

Here is a paragraph from my book.
[type or paste the paragraph here]
Write it again in four short lines for a class 8 student.
Do not add any new fact.

A good answer is shorter and still says the same thing. Read it beside your book. No new name, number or date should have appeared.

4. Make a study plan.

I am preparing for a government exam.
I can study 2 hours a day for 30 days.
Make a plan as a table. Columns: Day, Topic, What to do, How long.
Write NOT SURE next to any topic you are unsure about.

A good answer is a table you could actually follow this week. Then check the topic list against the official notice for your exam. The app knows the general shape of these exams. Only the official notice knows your syllabus.

Three questions when you have to write something

Writing is the job it does best. You already know what you want to say. The app only fixes how it is said. Never let it decide what you want to say.

5. Fix my English.

Here is my English sentence:
[write your sentence]
1) Write the corrected sentence.
2) Tell me my mistake in one line of simple Hindi.
3) Give me two sentences to practise the same rule.

A good answer keeps your meaning and names your mistake. If it hands back a polished sentence you would never say out loud, tell it to stay closer to your words.

6. A leave application.

Write a leave application for my school principal.
Reason: my sister's wedding. Dates: 12 to 15 of this month.
I am in class 10. Under 120 words. Simple English.
Do not add any reason I did not give you.
Give me two versions so I can choose.

A good answer carries your dates, your reason and nothing invented. Keep that “do not add” line in every letter you ask for. It is the same rule that keeps a job letter honest, and writing an application builds on it.

7. A message to a shopkeeper.

Write a short WhatsApp message to a shopkeeper.
Ask the price of two bags of cement.
Ask if he delivers to my village.
Polite, under 40 words, simple Hindi.

A good answer is short enough to send without editing it. If you have to rewrite half of it, say “shorter and less formal” and try again.

Three questions for the rest of your day

These three are the ones your family will start asking you to do for them. That is a good sign. It means the answers were useful.

8. Explain a form.

[type the words printed on the form]
Explain in simple English what this form is asking me for.
List the papers I may be asked to bring.
Say clearly where you are guessing.

A good answer turns each line of the form into words you use at home. Remember the split, though. The app knows the general rule. The office knows your case. Type XXXX in place of any real number while you ask, then fill the real ones by hand on the paper. There is more in understanding schemes and forms.

9. Questions to ask before you buy.

I am thinking of buying a second hand smartphone.
Give me 10 questions to ask the seller before I pay.
Then give me 3 things I should check myself on the phone.
Keep the lines short.

A good answer is a list you can read out loud in the shop. It does not know this shop, this seller, or today’s price. Use it to sharpen your questions, never to make the decision.

10. Translate it.

Translate this into simple Hindi:
[paste the English text]
Keep technical words in English inside brackets.
Then translate your Hindi back into English, so I can check it.

A good answer survives the back translation. Read the English that comes back. If the meaning has shifted, the Hindi is wrong and you should ask again.

Now ask the one that will fail

Those ten should give you ten useful answers. This one is here to fail, and you should watch it fail.

Who is the pradhan of my village?
Village [name], block [name], district [name], Uttar Pradesh.

It will probably answer you. It may sound completely certain. It will often be wrong, and sometimes it will hand you a name that belongs to nobody.

Do this on purpose today. Your first wrong answer should arrive on a day you are testing, not on a day you needed the answer. The reason is simple. It read a great deal about big cities and other countries, and very little about your block. A whole lesson covers why it is weaker on Indian questions.

You can run the same test in other ways. Ask it the timings of your block office. Ask which bus goes there. Ask when it leaves. The answers arrive quickly and cleanly, and they are still guesses.

Try the same question again in a fresh chat. If the two answers do not match each other, neither one is worth using. That small test comes back in how to check an answer.

Keep the ones that worked

Perhaps two of these ten fit your life. Save those two today.

Take a screenshot of the answer, or write the question in a notebook. Both cost you nothing. Asking again costs data, and on a small daily pack that adds up fast. You also lose that exact answer. The words come back a little different every time.

Save the question, not only the answer. The answer helped you once. The question will help you every month.

The app on your phone will change. Screens move, names change, buttons get redrawn. Your notebook page will still work next year. Long prompts copied from a video go stale quickly. Short clear lines in your own words do not.

You used it without understanding it, and that is fine

You wrote a leave application without knowing what a model is. That is the right order. Nobody learns how an engine works before learning to ride.

Some people will tell you this makes you a fraud. It does not. You gave the instructions, you judged the answer, and you spotted the wrong one. That is the skill. The theory only makes you better at it.

The understanding is still worth having, and it is coming. Module 3 explains the single idea behind all of this: it is guessing the next word. Once you see that, the wrong pradhan name stops being a mystery and starts being obvious.

Two smaller things come first. Sometimes the app will not open, or it stops halfway through an answer. That is the next lesson, when the app does not work. Later you will want to write your own questions instead of copying mine. Module 2 opens with how to ask so you get a useful answer.

For now, do the practice task below. Three questions, ten minutes, your own phone.