What best practices have you developed for using generative AI effectively in your projects?

Rather than simply prompting the AI tool to do something, what do you do to ensure that using AI gives the best results in your tasks or projects? Personally I let it enhance my ideas. Rather than saying "do this for me", I ask AI "I have x idea. (I explain what the idea is about) What do you think are areas I can improve or things I can add?". Only then will I go about doing the task mentioned.