The system prompt
What you are building
The task in front of you: What belongs in the system prompt?.
The editor already holds a working starting point. Do not delete it and start again — read it, change one thing, run it, and watch which check moves. That loop is the whole method.
Why this matters
You are inside the section “Prompt engineering” of the AI & Prompt Engineering track. Everything in this section builds towards the section project, and this task is one of the pieces that project leans on.
In real work nobody marks your code — it either runs or it does not, and someone is waiting for the result. The checks here are deliberately strict about output, because a program that prints the right thing in the wrong shape fails in the real world too.
The key idea
Python reads a line, runs it, and remembers the names you created. That is all a script is: a list of instructions and the memory they leave behind.
Spacing is not decoration in Python — the indentation is the structure. Four spaces inside an if or a def is what tells the interpreter those lines belong together.
Two mistakes to avoid
- Printing your value outside the loop instead of inside it, or inside when it should be after — count how many lines the answer should have before you run.
- Mixing tabs and spaces. It looks identical on screen and Python will refuse to run the file.
What the automatic checks look for
The right-hand column runs 1 check every time you press Run code. Nothing is hidden:
- The output has to contain “out:36 words in the…”.
Task
What belongs in the system prompt?
The editor already contains a starting point. Change it until every check passes — the Next task button unlocks when it does.
What you start with
system = (
'You are the AI Computer Science Academy assistant in Faisalabad. '
'Answer only about our courses, fees, timings and admission. '
'Never invent a fee. If you do not know, ask the student to call +92 325 8000848.'
)
print(len(system.split()), 'words in the system prompt')
print('mentions the phone:', '+92 325 8000848' in system)
Run your code to see the output and the checks.
Submit your code to see results
Write your code in the middle column and press Run code.
Why this works
Checks on this task:
- Check 1
Stuck? The Hint button at the bottom nudges you one step without handing over the answer — that is on purpose: an exercise you copied teaches nothing.
Track progress
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Next task unlocks when every check passes.
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Re-read the task: “What belongs in the…”. Write the line that shows the value first, run it, then build the loop around it. Keep the print inside the loop if the task asks for one line per item. The output has to contain “out:36 words in the…”.
Still stuck? Re-read “What you are building” in the left column and change one line at a time. Press Run after every change.