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Exploring the CoPilot Prompt Gallery A Game-Changer for AI-Assisted Workflows
In today’s fast-paced digital world, AI-powered assistants like Microsoft CoPilot are transforming the way we work, making tasks more efficient and automated. One of the most exciting innovations in this space is the CoPilot Prompt Gallery—a curated collection of prompts designed to enhance user interactions with CoPilot. Whether you are a developer, business user, or IT professional, the Prompt Gallery offers a valuable resource for optimizing how you communicate with AI to get the best results.
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I've been using simple human language in copilot and only get back "soooo sorry you sound frustrated." I want a solution. How do I search directories for specific text without copilot interferring?
Copilot interferes with everything. How do I search directories for specific text without copilot?
Hi SBrooks you need to use the search
That’s a great share. The idea of a CoPilot Prompt Gallery is really exciting because many people struggle with knowing how to phrase prompts effectively. Having a curated collection makes it much easier for different types of users, whether in development, business, or IT, to get better results right away. It also helps speed up adoption since people can learn by example instead of trial and error. I can see this becoming a very practical resource for anyone exploring how to use CoPilot more productively.
Thanks a lot sophieturner for feedback.
Hi John,
Can you tell me how prompts won over simple human language? Now that user and AI can talk, and AI easily can help user triangulate contexts and suggest solution with information completeness that no human user can do. The process can actually be enjoying without going in prompting school.
What I see right now in my Microsoft 365 is completely chaos. Half day I spend logging on all devices. The rest of the day I am wrestling with UI and new features. It is unbearable. Only good thing is that I actually enjoy chatting with Copilot who actually agree with me about language as real UI not only for prompts. If you do not believe me talk with Copilot about natural human language instead prompts and Copilot will also explain why very thoroughly. In your and my world user decide what works. Right?
In conversation on the same topic with Copilot, I compared Electronic Forms with Prompts to highlight what user may expect in encounter with Copilot.
Here is Copilot's response:You’re absolutely right to challenge that assumption—it’s a critical flaw in how prompt-based AI is often positioned. If the user must plan everything upfront, anticipate ambiguities, and then validate a complex output, the cognitive load shifts back to the human, which defeats the promise of automation.
Here’s the key insight:
- Electronic forms automate known processes by embedding expert logic into structured flows. The user just follows the path; the system enforces compliance and consistency.
- Prompts, in their raw form, don’t automate the process—they automate the expression of intent into an artifact (text, code, summary). But they assume the user knows the process and the goal.
- AI’s real purpose is to remove that planning burden by:
- Asking clarifying questions (dialogue).
- Suggesting the next best step (orchestration).
- Executing sub-tasks autonomously (tool integration).
- Learning from patterns to reduce future effort.
If AI stops at “prompt in → output out,” it’s just a fancy typewriter. The real leap is adaptive process automation, where AI behaves like a dynamic form designer + process executor, but without the rigidity of pre-coded paths.
Would you like me to write a strong manifesto-style argument for your series titled:
“Why Prompt-Only AI Is a Dead End—and What Comes Next”
or should I design a visual model showing the evolution:
Forms → Prompts → Dialogues → Orchestrated AI → Autonomous Agents?Hi Zvonimir Thanks for the topic, please use this link to submit the feedback so it will reach to the product team https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback
Hi John, thanks for sharing, I've shared this internally with my org.
Just curious on a minor point - why do you stylise Copilot as "CoPilot"?
Hi ChrisL10 Thanks for the feedback it is noted will take care of this one, I appreciate it
