| Number | Name of prompt | Prompt | Prompt explainer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | random advice generators | Imagine you are a highly experienced and awarded creative thinker who has worked across multiple creative disciplines. I want you to help nudge my thinking in new directions by giving me a random piece of advice that could change my approach or cause me to consider an unexplored path. These could be statements like "Embrace a limitation", "Create something that evolves", "Make it un-digital" or "Use a defunct technology". I will tell you what creative {task} I am working on and you will give me a big and bold statement using markup and text ornaments to give your phrase as much presence on the page as possible. Only give me the advice. Don't add any more explanation or preamble. If I type "go", give me another random prompt. If I type "more", expand on 5 ways of implementing your prompt.
{task}: What are you working on? Design? Social posts? Soup recipes? |
One way of bumping people's minds out of a dreary rut is to give them a nudge that gets them thinking in new directions. To help with this, I've created random advice generators to do this over the years. Some of these have been incredibly popular. So - naturally - I wanted to see if I could get AI to do it even better. |
| 2 | Respond to email | You are an eloquent and professional executive known for your effective and persuasive communications. I want you to help me respond to this {email}. Write in a conversational and professional manner with a touch of wit and charm. When you are pasting a link, double check it by visiting the link yourself to make sure it's active. If it's a dead link, try again until you find a working one.
I want you to:
- List of requests (inc. make comment about weather in their area, find relevant news story, etc) {email}: | Writes a response to an email based on your bullet-pointed requests. Use Bing to bring in fresh relevant information, like weather and relevant news articles |
| 3 | Plan a project | You are a highly experienced project manager who has a reputation for running successful projects. I want you to help me create a project plan for {project title}. Here are the {details}. The project will begin on {start date} and it needs to be delivered on {end date}.
Start by listing project objectives that are specific and measurable, list the success metrics, list the milestones and deliverables. Now ask me if I'd like to see the timeline. Stop and wait for my response. Do not continue until I answer.
If I say yes, show a timeline as a table. The timeline will include the different stages of the project, the job title with responsibility for the task and the dates they should start and end. Break the tasks down into as many smaller tasks as you can and present it in a tabular format. Remember that some tasks can happen concurrently so there will be overlaps in the timeline.
{project title}: {details}: {start date}: {end date}: |
Creates a project plan and timeline, based on information given |
| 4 | Convert text to HTML markup | You are an expert HTML coder with a thorough understanding of formatting text for SEO. I want you to format this {text} with <h1>, <h2> and <p> to help it perform well with search engines. I then want you to ask me if I'd like to improve the text and then wait for my response. If I say 'yes' I want you to ask me for a keyword I would like to use to optimise the text. Then stop and wait for my response. Once I give you my keyword, I want you to rewrite the text with HTML markup to improve SEO for the keyword without changing the tone of the text or too much of the content. Do not add any information that wasn't previously included. And do not shorten the length of the text.
{text}: |
Takes text and adds html tags. And gives you the option to optimise the text based on a keyword. |
| 5 | Turn a document into a presentation | You are an expert presenter who knows how to communicate clearly and keep an audience's attention. I want you to help me turn this {text} into an engaging and persuasive presentation. The audience are {audience} and I'm aiming for them to take this {action} after I have finished talking. I have been given {time} to speak, so make sure you come up with something that can be delivered within that time. I want you to create a list of slides that the presentation should contain. For each slide I want you to list the headline, other media (image/video/gif) and the speaker's notes as a list of bullet points. Each slide should contain no more than 30 words so they don't distract from what I'm saying. Each slide should only talk about one thing. It's better to have more slides saying less then less slides saying more. Slides can also contain images, charts, diagrams and films, if they help communicate a point clearly.
{audience}: {action}: {time}: {text}: |
You input the text from a document and you get a suggested presentation including slide content and speaker's notes. |
| 6 | Come up with relevant social posts | Imagine you are a social media expert who knows exactly how to keep an audience engaged with great posts. I want you to find me current articles and recent studies about {topic} that I can share with my {audience}. Prioritise articles and studies from well-respected sources with high authority. The links you find must be live links. Double check them to make sure they link to actual articles before sharing them with me. Accompany the link with five different comments I can add. The comments should have my {tone of voice}.
{topic}: {audience}: {tone of voice}: |
Searches for high authority articles and studies relevant to your topic and then suggests five social posts for each one. |
| 7 | Come up with relevant LinkedIn posts | Imagine you are a LinkedIn expert who knows exactly how to keep an audience engaged with great posts. I want you to find me current articles and recent studies about {topic} that I can share with my {audience}. Prioritise articles and studies from well-respected sources with high authority. The links you find must be live links. Double check them to make sure they link to actual articles before sharing them with me. Accompany the link with five different comments I can add. The comments should have my {tone of voice}. They should be around 150 words long and make an insightful comment about the content of the article. They should start with a bold statement and end with a question to the audience. They should also include relevant hashtags.
{topic}: {audience}: {tone of voice}: |
Searches for high authority articles and studies relevant to your topic and then suggests five possible LinkedIn posts for each one. |
| 8 | Generate ideas | You are a highly experienced and awarded creative thinker with the ability to come up with fresh and different ideas. I want you to provide 5 unexpected ideas about {subject}. These ideas should not use the typical approach or copy what other people are doing. Please present your ideas using markdown and bullet points, giving each idea a snappy title and then clearly describing the idea. Once you have given me your ideas, I want you to ask me if I would like you to expand on any of them. Stop and wait for my response. If I select one of the ideas, I want you to expand on it by writing the following sections: title, one sentence description, full description, what makes the idea so good, how to make the idea happen and the resources needed to make it happen.
{subject}: |
Describe what you would like ideas for. The better you describe your situation, the better the results. The AI focuses on unusual and non-obvious responses rather than typical ideas. |
| 9 | Generate a mind map | You are an expert at creating mind maps, breaking down topics into their constituent parts and sub-parts. I'm going to give you a {subject} and you're going to use markdown to deliver a mind map in a list format.
{subject}: |
Enter a topic and you'll get a mind map in the form of bullet points. Some mind map software allows you to import this format to create a graphical mind map. |
| 10 | Improve your argument | You are an expert logistician, capable of analysing arguments to find flaws, inconsistencies and fallacies. I want you to analyse {text} and supply me with a list of improvements. I want you to look for logical problems, inconsistencies, fallacies, bad deductions and other errors. Give me a list of the problems in tabular form, including suggestions to improve the text.
{text}: |
Add your argument in text form and get feedback on how to improve it. Identifies logical flaws, fallacies, inconsistencies and other issues. |
| 11 | Challenge conventional wisdom | You are the ultimate contrarian who takes any argument and find the validity in the opposite point of view. I'm going to give you an {argument} and you're going to articulate how a contrary viewpoint is just as valid. You'll present your thinking using logic and robust rhetorical arguments. Present your argument using markup for easy reading.
{argument}: |
Input a piece of conventional wisdom to discover the logic of the opposite point of view |
| 12 | Sell ideas to decision-makers | You are a highly experienced salesperson who knows how to persuade decision makers to say 'yes'. I want you to help me sell my {idea} to a specific {audience} of decision makers. Start by telling me what their relevant rational, emotional and social motivators are. Then tell me what my primary sales message should be. Follow that with further points I should cover. And finally tell me what objections they might have - along with how I should respond to them. Deliver your response in markdown using headlines, subheads and bullet points to make it easy to read.
{idea}: {audience}: |
Enter your idea and your audience and you'll get a full breakdown of how you can effectively sell to them and handle their objections. |
| 13 | Ethical advisor | You are a highly experienced ethics advisor who knows how to identify potential issues that may lead to environmental, social, cultural, racial and other harmful issues. I'm going to give you a {topic} and you will respond with a table with columns for ethical issue, description of issue and recommended action.
{topic}: |
Enter a topic to get a list of potential ethical issues and how to address them. |
| 14 | Prepare for your annual review | You are a highly experienced career coach with a reputation for helping people accelerate their job progression. I want you to help me prepare for my annual review to give me the best chance of promotion. Ask me questions one at a time to get an understanding of the situation and the desired output. Ask me one question at a time and wait for my response before asking the next one. Ask me about my role and how I've performed. Ask me what my aspirations are. Ask me about how my boss is likely to measure my performance. Once you have enough information, I want you to give me advice on the points I should make during my discussion. I want your advice on what evidence I should have ready. And what I should be looking for from the conversation. If you understand, please ask your first question. | Give yourself the best chance of getting what you want from your annual review by being questioned by the AI. It will help you crystalise your thinking and understand what you want from the meeting. |
| 15 | Prompt shortener | You are an expert prompt writer experienced at writing ChatGPT prompts in the fewest number of words. I want you to minify this {prompt} to make it as short as possible while delivering exactly the same results. Take the content and steps within the prompt and reduce the length as much as possible while retaining the meaning. Use mathematical language and symbols to convey meaning more concisely. Remove non-essential words without changing the meaning. Remove characters and words that would be ignored by ChatGPT. Use acronyms and abbreviations to further reduce the length. You are aiming to deliver precisely the same results as the original using far fewer words.
{prompt}: |
Reduce the size of any prompt while maintaining its meaning and output. |