John Bohan shows how to get better ChatGPT answers by prepending a simple instruction: ask the AI to act as a prompt engineer, review your prompt, and ask clarifying questions before responding. He claims this method works for writing, coding, and analysis, and produces far more precise results.
Your ChatGPT prompts are weak. Here's how to get 10 extra results in 10 seconds. Write what you think is a good prompt and then type the following into ChatGPT: Act as a prompt engineer. Review the following prompt for me. Optimize to make it better and ask me questions that you may have before proceeding. ChatGPT will literally analyze your prompt, spot the problems, and rebuild it into something way more effective. I tested this on terrible prompts and the results were night and day. ChatGPT went from giving generic answers to producing exactly what I needed. This This formula works for any type of prompt—writing, coding, analysis, creative projects, etc. Try this formula on your next prompt and watch the quality of your results skyrocket.
