Nicolas Cole shares six opening styles for AI writing prompts: declarative sentences, questions, controversial opinions, moments in time, vulnerable statements, and weird insights. He stresses that hooks alone don't work without clear context and detailed instructions, and that writers must still develop their own skills to quality-check what the AI produces.
Whenever I'm writing prompts, these are the rules that I'm inserting into the prompt. There are 6 typical openers: strong declarative sentence, thought-provoking question, controversial opinion, moment in time, vulnerable statement, weird unique insight. Now, obviously, if you don't give AI a tremendous amount of context and instruction, it might give you a thought-provoking question, but you still might read it and be like, "Eh, that isn't very good." That's why I stress the importance of, yes, learn how to leverage AI, but also practice and build the skill yourself, because you're going to be the one who's quality controlling the technology.
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