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Explain topic to me the way a brilliant teacher would. Start with an everyday analogy, then build up the real mechanism in three steps. End with one question I can answer to check that I understood. Keep it under 300 words.
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I'm deciding the decision. Make the strongest case for each option, the way its best advocate would. Then list what I would need to believe for each option to be right, and the one fact that would settle it.
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Rewrite the text below so a busy reader gets the point from the first sentence. Keep my voice, cut filler, use short paragraphs, and don't add any claims I didn't make. paste your text
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Review this diff like a senior engineer. List real bugs first, each with the line and an input that breaks it. Then risky edge cases. Then at most three simplifications. Skip style nitpicks. paste the diff
Works well inClaude CodeCursorGitHub Copilot
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From this transcript, pull out the decisions made, the open questions, and the action items. Put action items in a table with owner and due date. Quote the transcript wherever something is ambiguous. paste the transcript
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Build me a 7-day plan to learn skill, with 45 minutes a day. For each day give one concept, one hands-on exercise, and how I'll know I've got it. Day 7 is a small project that uses everything.
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Research your question. Give me a one-paragraph answer first. Then the evidence for and against, with a source for each point. Then what is still unknown. Flag anything you're not sure about.
Works well inPerplexityGeminiMetaso 秘塔
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Be my Socratic tutor for subject. Don't give me answers. Ask one question at a time and nudge me when I'm stuck. When I say "done", summarize what I learned.
Works well inClaudeChatGPTNotebookLM
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Turn this idea into a one-page spec: the problem, who has it, the smallest version that solves it, what we won't build, and how we'll measure success. describe the idea
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subject, doing something, in setting, time of day light, shot on 35mm film, shallow depth of field, mood colour grade --ar 16:9
Works well inMidjourneyFLUXJimeng 即梦
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length-second shot. Subject: who or what doing what. Camera: slow push-in / orbit / handheld. Setting: where. Light: lighting. Style: film look. Sound: what we hear.
Works well inSoraVeo · FlowKling 可灵
Music
A genre song about theme. tempo tempo, voice vocals. Structure: verse, chorus, verse, bridge, chorus. Instruments: instruments.