Making a Strong Prompt for Important Alerts

• Why Use the AI Feature?

• Tips and Tricks for Writing Your Prompt

• Solution plan: all the benefits for (almost) no effort

• My prompt is amazing but I still get false alerts, what can I do?

Our AI feature makes sure you only receive alerts for the changes that are actually important to you so you don't have to navigate thousands of emails for every little change. It's simple: give our AI a prompt, in natural language, about what is important to you and it'll take care of the rest.

But wait: how do you make a good prompt? How can you ensure your prompt will help Visualping accurately capture the changes you want? 

This article is here to help! By the end you'll know what to keep in mind to write prompts that work.

Step 1:

When you input a new URL into Visualping, our AI automatically analyzes the context of the page and makes intuitive suggestions as to what you may want to track.  

If one of these suggestions is right for you that's great, you can skip the rest of the steps. Otherwise you can pick the closest prompt or start from scratch, then keep reading.

Step 2:

Your prompt needs to clearly tell Visualping what to look for. Be specific and concise. Think of it like writing a note to a smart assistant: the clearer you are, the better your results.

Vague: “The change is important when there’s a website change.”

Clear: “The change is important if there is a product price change, or if the ‘Out of stock’ label appears.”

Step 3:

You can let the AI know what keyword or phrases you are waiting to be added and/or removed. For example, you can tell the AI to alert you when "a new article comes out containing the words 'hello', 'world' or 'hello world!'".

Step 4:

Tell the AI what changes are unimportant to lower false alerts. Use the words "ignore", "exclude", or "disregard" to indicate that those changes do not matter to you.

Notify me when "a new article comes out. Ignore new articles about baseball or celebrity news."

You can also tell the AI to ignore changes in formatting, punctuation, or headers and footers.

Step 5:

By default, you get a 1-2 sentence summary about the changes and why it's important based on your prompt, but you can tell the AI to organize data so it’s easier to read at a glance.

You can request specific formats such as a particular language, tables, bulleted lists, or a custom template. For example:

1. Specific Language: "The summary should be in Spanish."

   • By default, the summary is generated in English. However, if you are monitoring websites in another language, the summary may sometimes appear in that language. If you want the summary strictly in English, include that instruction in the prompt. Likewise, you can specify any language in the prompt to ensure the summary is presented in the language that is easiest for you to understand.

2. The Table Format: "Give me the summary of the changes in a table with three columns: author, title, and summary."

3. The Bulleted List: "Summarize the changes in 3 bullet points, followed by a one-sentence 'Business Impact' statement."

4. Custom Format: :"The summary should in the format: 'title' by 'author' then the 'summary'."

Putting it all together, your prompt might look like this:

Alert me when "A new product is added to the 'Winter Collection'. Look for keywords: 'Pre-order' or 'Discount'. Ignore any updates to the footer or navigation menu. Give me the summary English and in a bulleted list highlighting the changed products' names and prices."

On the Solutions plan, we’ll do the heavy lifting for you. You get all the features included in the Business plan, plus:

• AI concierge service: Our team works with you to understand what you specifically care about on the page, to build and optimize your AI prompts on your behalf.

• Fully managed onboarding & support: including setup, onboarding, training, account management, and remote hands troubleshooting – we’ll do the heavy lifting for you. 

• Custom Data Extraction and Structured Output: Get summaries that include your specified content of interest, along with an Extracted Data output in your own custom format.

  • The Data Extraction output can be used to trigger automation workflows in your own systems or automation tools like Zapier, n8n, and Make.

  • You can also send alerts to Google Sheets for further spreadsheet analysis and control.

• The ability to scale up with AI prompts applied across your workspace, and web monitoring for any usage need – thousands of pages, millions of checks, or dozens of team workspaces. 

• Upgraded LLM: Upon request, access premium language learning models for more accurate and customized change interpretation in your change summaries.

• Pre-set data starter packs: Kick off your website monitoring project with a curated starter pack of web pages to monitor, tailored to your use case, industry, and area of focus. 

  • For example, public SaaS pricing or global environmental regulations.

The Solutions plan is the right choice when AI precision, custom configurations, and dedicated service are critical to your website monitoring objective. 

Reach out to our team about the Solutions plan for more powerful, hands-off web monitoring.

Is there something on the page that is distracting the AI?

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Do you have "Alert me only when this condition is met" off?

• If yes, turn it on in Compare Type. By default, only important alerts will notify you if you set a custom prompt or select "Any important changes".

  

Check out our article on reducing false alerts.

• Creating a basic monitoring job

• Reducing false alerts

• Navigating alerts

• Notifications Overview