Gemini Meta‑Prompt Drives Veo Sports Highlight Creation

The prompts she uses to instruct Gemini on how to create its prompts are key. Anna's meta prompts inspire Gemini to produce richly detailed prompts for instructing a gen AI model. "There are no rules here -- we're experimenting -- but I've found a few things that help steer Gemini to really rich prompts," she says.

"You want to define a very specific task: 'write a detailed prompt that an LLM will understand.' And you want to be clear about your format and style: say, an 8-second stop-motion animation of paper-engineered scenes. Then give it constraints, like foil paper or shiny paper, rather than just general paper. Then let it do its thing." Depending on how a model responds to Gemini's prompts, you may want to tweak them, she says.

Add or change details about the sounds and textures you want to produce -- it's a collaboration. "I've found it helps to suggest the feeling you want to evoke," she adds. "Tell Gemini you want it to think about 'scenes which are satisfying to watch,' for example." With such instructions and the task of creating botanical art, Gemini delivered a prompt for an unfurling paper fern in which "the animation should be slow and mesmerizing, with each frond delicately unfolding in a gentle, rhythmic sequence." Veo understood the assignment.

Anna's ferns and feathers are not part of her core work: Day-to-day, she helps build the infrastructure and tools for Google DeepMind's researchers to scale their AI experiments. But it's something that gives her joy when she finds a spare 10 minutes, and she's happy to share the love. (She even created a deck to pass on her learnings.) Her biggest tip for Googlers… and anyone else who's listening?