Without seeing the pump, and what you are doing, I'm not sure what you need to do to get it primed . . . but, no problems: just pour in bleach till you get the pump back on. Add 2 gallons of PLAIN 6% household bleach to the pool each evening . . . and most likely you'll be fine.

If you can get an HTH 6-way test kit (only available at some Walmarts!) and test the water, we can tell you if you need to adjust that bleach dose.

Meanwhile, the NORMAL way to prime is to fill the pump basket with water, close it, turn the pump on (filter valve on 'filter' or 'recirculate') and let it run for 10 minutes. If it doesn't 'pick up' the water in 10 minutes, turn it off: you don't want to run the pump while it's dry. Without seeing your gear, I can't really help.

But you can keep the pool from getting messed up, if you'll just keep bleach in it!