PROMPTS
1346 original and curated AI prompts across image, video, music, and tutorials. Browse by tool, use case, and difficulty; each entry shows its available notes and examples.
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Self-Critique Revision Loop: Draft, Self-Criticize, Revise — Three Rounds of Polish in One Prompt
Has the AI produce a first draft, then switch into a strict editor role to pick apart its own flaws, and finally rewrite based on that critique — effectively running three rounds of polish inside a single prompt.
Rubric-Driven Output: Tell AI What a Perfect Score Looks Like First
Write out the grading rubric in your head and give it to the AI first — it will use that yardstick to self-align, self-evaluate, and fix whatever falls short, getting you much closer to the quality you actually want.
The Anti-Goal Sandwich: One Line to Stop AI's Most Common Mistake
Explicitly naming "the most common failure mode AI makes on this type of task" in the prompt and telling it to proactively avoid that mode — 2026 field tests show roughly a 28-30% reduction in errors.
Contrastive Example Calibration: Show It What You Want AND What You Don't — One Negative Example Beats Three Positive Ones
Demonstrate both the 'desired output' and the 'output that shouldn't appear' at the same time, so the AI calibrates between the two poles; for tasks about tone and precision, a single negative example often outperforms three positive ones.
Chain-of-Thought Scaffold: A Fixed 5-Step "Think Before You Answer" Process
Forces the AI to think through 5 fixed steps before answering — restate → list assumptions → reason step by step → self-check → conclude. Field tests show roughly a 30% reduction in confidently wrong answers on complex reasoning tasks.
5 Prompt Engineering Techniques That Actually Move the Needle (XML Beats Markdown by 28%)
Five quantifiable techniques from an AI engineer's hundreds of hours testing across GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini: CoT scaffolding, persona + goal + anti-goal, XML being 28% more accurate than markdown, negative examples outperforming positive ones, and prompt chaining beating the mega-prompt.
Turn Off ChatGPT's Polite Lying — 3 Anti-Sycophancy Instructions
By default, helpful = agreeable = burying the real problem in paragraph four. Three one-line instructions reverse it: problem first, force a recommendation, explicitly forbid softening. The difference between reading and fixing.
COMMAND PLANNING MODE: A 9-Section Structured Planning Prompt
No conversation, no suggestions, no attempts — it just turns any situation into a structured execution plan. Fixed 9-block output: Reality / Objective / 4-phase Timeline / Tactics / Threats / Defenses / Contingency / Leverage / Confidence. Same input always yields the same output.
ChatGPT Custom Instructions: describe the relationship, not your resume
Most people fill Custom Instructions with a LinkedIn resume, "I'm a software engineer, I like bullet points," and it does nothing. Swap in a description of the conversational relationship you want, and three sentences will completely change how the model behaves.
AI attack-surface audit: see yourself the way an AI-augmented attacker does
Written after Google's threat-intelligence report in May 2026. AI hacking has gone from nascent to industrial scale, with commercial AI models digging up zero-days humans had missed for decades. This prompt lays out every place you can be attacked.
Job-search strategy: turn ChatGPT into a 4-in-1 (auditor + analyst + advisor)
Combines a resume auditor, market analyst, system auditor, and strategist. It won't flatter you, won't over-reassure you, and won't push you toward roles that don't fit. Includes a 10-step process and ghost-job detection.
English copy editor: 4 priorities, emotional resonance, and structural flow
More than a grammar fix. Purpose-built for persuasive and narrative writing: four priorities (clarity → tone → emotional resonance → structure), an explanation for every change, plus extra suggestions.
AI displacement self-assessment: break your job into tasks and score each 1-10
Written after Cloudflare cut 20%, BILL cut 30%, and Upwork cut 24% in 2026. Your job title tells you nothing; breaking the work into tasks tells you everything. Get an AI vulnerability score (1-10) and timeline for each task, plus an overall risk rating.
Custom GPT governance: the 7-block Agent Identity Card
Run this before you build a custom GPT or n8n agent. It forces you to define boundaries up front and prevents agent scope creep ("just handle my work for me" = disaster).
GPT BS detector: catch the moments AI gets it wrong just to please you
An Oxford study in Nature: the "warmer" an AI is trained to be, the more its accuracy drops, by 10-30 percentage points. This prompt reviews an AI response and flags every place warmth overrides accuracy.
Social Post Formulas for IG/LinkedIn
Give ChatGPT your industry and your point of view, and it produces 5 social posts using 5 viral formulas — Contrarian, List, Story, Question, and Data.
Viral Headline Generator: 10 Directions
Give ChatGPT your content topic, and it produces 10 directions using 10 viral headline formulas. A/B test them or just pick the best fit.
Interview Simulator: Turn-Based Q&A
An interactive interview simulator — ChatGPT plays the interviewer, asking questions and follow-ups based on the job description and your role, then giving feedback. Ten times more effective than practicing alone talking to yourself.
One Prompt That Mapped My Entire Personality (39 Traits, 6 Layers)
No quiz. No questions. I fed my old chats (things I'd written across years without ever trying to be self-aware) to ChatGPT and ran a prompt that went deeper than any personality test I've tried. 39 traits across 6 lay
ChatGPT Prompt of the Day: Build AI Agents That Actually Work
I've wasted more hours than I want to admit debugging AI agents that kept going off-script. Switched LLMs, swapped tools, rewrote the logic — turned out the problem was the system prompt the whole time. Too vague, too cr
ChatGPT Prompt of the Day: The Ghost Job Detector
I applied to a role for three weeks. Recruiter calls, a technical screen, all of it. Then it vanished. The company kept reposting it every 30 days but nobody responded to my final follow-up. Took me an embarrassingly lon
Free22ChatGPT LinkedIn Post Rewriter: Earn Reach Through Genuine Effort
You wrote up a LinkedIn reflection, but it came out reading like stale, generic corporate speak. This prompt has ChatGPT rewrite it into a version that's "long, but keeps your thumb from stopping the scroll."
Free23Weekly Review Journaling Prompt: Think Through Next Week in 10 Minutes
Built for freelancers, founders, and PMs. Uses a one-question-at-a-time dialogue instead of a fill-in-the-blank template to draw out genuine reflection.
Free24Prompt Optimizer: Turn a Bad Prompt into a Good One
Give the AI your rough prompt, and it turns it into a structured, advanced prompt — and explains why.