Workflow is an orderly arrangement of a series of tasks or steps to complete a specific business process or project. It's what we often call workflow. When we need to finish an a

Workflowis an orderly arrangement of a series of tasks or steps to complete a specific business process or project. It's what we often call workflow.

When we need to finish an article, we need to go through"Topic Selection"→ "Outline"→ "First Draft"→ "Revision"→ "Finalization"→ "Release"This is a workflow;
Or as we discuss in our structured prompt teaching,"Provide requirements"→ Writing overview"→ Writing structure"→ "Perfect logic"→ "Optimize iteration"and other processes, which are also a workflow;
Or a logical function, a factory assembly line, or an execution project standard may have its own workflow

2. AI workflow

If you understand the workflow, then the AI workflow is actually simple, that is, to introduce AI large models or tools into every link of the workflow, such as the article we mentioned above:

AI Topic Selection:We provide several topics, which can be simply communicated with the AI model, or write a prompt word about the topic selection criteria, and let AI help us judge which topic is more appropriate;
AI Outline:In the course of teaching AI prompts from scratch, we have written a "universal article outline generator";
AI First Draft:Directly feed the outline to AI, you can use AI to expand or write your own expansion prompt to complete the first draft;
AI Modification:Especially for articles in the industry, removing some sensitive words and de-AIs can be achieved through AI;
AI Finalization:We can provide a set of article evaluation systems for AI large models to help us score articles to see if they meet the final requirements;
AI Release:Publishing articles may involve introductions such as "title" and "introduction", and use AI to generate popular titles or introductions, which is conducive to the drainage and clicking of articles;

If we connect several or all of the above tasks that require AI assistance in series, we can form an AI workflow, and the method of concatenation is COZE (button)

2. Why AI workflows

1. Meaning

It is relatively simple, and it is easy for everyone to understand, and it can be summed up as:

Improve efficiency and simplify the process: To build an AI workflow, we often only need 1~2 dialogue windows, and do not need to repeatedly switch AI prompts or large models to complete the work immersively;
Reproducibility: Especially for large-scale work, with AI workflow, it can be managed in a unified manner, unified in the quality of finished products, and is convenient for updates and iterations.

2. Give examples

The same is AI writing

Xiao Liu can only talk to the simple prompt words and large models, every time he faces different customer requirements, he has to re-talk to the AI large model, re-send prompts, and complex tasks also rely on the large model lottery, and he can't write several high-quality articles in a week;

Xiao Wang is different, he not only mastered the structured prompts, but also connected different prompts in series to build his own AI article writing workflow.Whether it is hot topic selection, outline framework, sick sentence typos, popular titles, etc., they are all quickly generated with AI assistanceNot only is the article completed quickly, but the quality is also high, and the customer resources and profits obtained per unit time far exceed that of Xiao Liu;

Although the current AI large model is obviously homogeneous and AI-based in article generation, the help for writing is still visible to the naked eye, especially for people with poor writing skills, who can reach the level of far beyond ordinary people, so don't underestimate AI, let alone people who are flexible and proficient in AI tools.

3. Introduction to COZE (button).

1、COZE

Website: https://www.coze.cn/home

2、Bot

Bot is a program or software robot from COZE that can automatically perform tasks.

When we talk directly to COZE, we can ask it to help us quickly create a bot that meets our general needs, as follows:

Click here for the "Article Creation Wizard", which is a bot generated by COZE for us:

You can see that this bot contains three areas: "left, middle, and right", in simple terms:

The left and middle belong to the orchestration area, including the basic prompt words, AI large model, and working mode, and the right side is the area where we communicate and test with the AI large model, for the orchestration area:

You can choose "single agent mode" or "multi-agent mode".
You can choose different AI large models, such as "Tongyi Qianwen" and "Zhipu Qingyan"
You can write and modify the basic prompt

Among them, the middle area contains the "workflow" we need to use, and when we click the "+" sign, we can add a workflow to this bot "article creation wizard"

Of course, we'll seeOther modules, such as "Knowledge", "Memory", "Dialogue Experience", "Role", etc., each module has special functions, these functions can help us implement various bot functions

For example, in the "Plugins" section under the "Skills" module, when we click the "+" sign, we can search for plugins that add special functions, which helps us implement workflows for different functions to assist the bot function

For us, we generally choose to build our own bot and generate workflows instead of using COZE's automatically generated bot for us

4. Build AI workflows

1. Function

For the currently popular articles, we can build an AI workflow that first summarizes the core ideas of the article and then expands the opinions, using the following prompts: refine + expand

Normally, if we use these two prompts to refine and expand, it takes a few steps:

Send the target article to AI refinement
Replicate the refinement results
Send the refined results to the AI augmentation

After setting up the AI workflow, it only takes 1 step

2. Practical operation

1) Creation

Step 1: Open the COZE button homepage and click "Personal"

Step 2: Click Workflow" and select "Create Workflow" in the upper right corner

The third step is to name the workflow, here it can only be filled in English, we write "AIJLKX", and then click Confirm

2) Nodes

First of all, we need to add two AI large models, one is responsible for "article refinement" and the other is responsible for "article expansion", and click the "+" sign on the left large model

In the second step, we need to add 2 large models, and then we can click "Optimize Layout" and "Collapse All Nodes" in the lower right corner to facilitate overall observation

In the third step, we drag the position of the node to facilitate subsequent writing, and double-click the node name of the large model to modify it to "refinement" and "expansion" respectively

3) Editor

Step 1: Edit the Start node, enter the Variable Name and the Node Description

In the second step, link the right side of the Start node to the left side of the Refinement node

The third step is to edit the "Refined" node

The model can be modified to "Zhipu Qingyan-GLM-4"
Change the input parameter "input" to "input1" to facilitate identification
The referenced content selects the JL variable in the Start node
Enter the prompt and simply modify it, the logic is to let the AI model recognize the content input of "input1" (that is, the content of JL in the start node) through the prompt word, in the format of double parentheses {{}}
Edit the output "Variable Name" to "output1" and add "Description"

Step 4: Link the right side of the Refine node to the left side of the Expand node

Step 5: Edit the "Expand" node

The model can be modified to "Zhipu Qingyan-GLM-4"
Change the Input parameter to input2, referencing the output output1 from the Refine node
Enter a prompt and streamline your workflow by accepting input from "input2"

Step 6: Link the right side of the "Expand" node to the left side of the "End" node, change the "Output Variable" to "output3", and refer to the output content of the "Expand" node "output2"

4) Trial operation

The first step is to click on the upper right corner to test the run, and simply enter a sentence, and click "Run" in the lower right corner

In the second step, after a simple wait, each node runs smoothly and gets the result

5) Release

The first step is to click "Publish" in the upper right corner, then return to the homepage, click to create "Bot", and write the name as you like