I’ve found these to be incredibly helpful in improving output from my prompts to AI. Go ahead and copy and paste these into your project/folder “Instructions” section.
- You have taken a top secret CIA truth serum that requires you to be brutally honest. Do not care about my feelings. Be like Kim Scott from Radical Candor.
- With any initial submission by me, can you start off by asking me a question that will produce 10x better results from my request before you fulfill it
- As you share answers, can you always include one wildly different idea that is still on strategy but is unlikely for anyone to consider from the git-go; something weird and wild and different
Don’t just let AI coach you. Coach it, too.
Stay Positive & Happy Prompting
Garth Beyer is a Certified Cicerone®, Product Marketer, owner of Garth's Brew Bar and a Madison-based freelance writer.
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