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Sohail Mohammed
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You Will Need a Single Prompt to Get Desired AI Responses

I was at a ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ณ๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—›๐˜†๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ debating remote-work productivity with friends - we asked the same prompt to ๐˜Š๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜Ž๐˜—๐˜›, ๐˜Ž๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ช, ๐˜Š๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต, ๐˜—๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜บ... and got five completely different โ€œ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ด.โ€ Same question. Wildly different answers. And we just accepted whichever came first. ๐Ÿ˜ณ

Thatโ€™s when it hit me: ๐—•๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—”๐—œ, ๐˜„๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฑ โ€” ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜„, ๐˜„๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ. Weโ€™ve skipped the comparison, the thinkingโ€ฆ and plunged straight into confident - but not always accurate - answers.

Wondering why AI often misses the mark? Itโ€™s not the model, itโ€™s how we're prompting.

I wrote a ๐Ÿฒโ€๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜‚๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—ด๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ with the ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐˜ I now use to consistently get the response I actually want (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini).

๐—œ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ:
โ€ข The mindset shift: searcher โž decider
โ€ข The exact prompt structure (no fluff)
โ€ข 3 copy/paste examples for work

๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐˜‚๐—น๐—น ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜†๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ:

๐˜—๐˜š: ๐˜š๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ต ๐˜ˆ๐˜ ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ฌ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ด๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ข ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ฌ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ 10โ€๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ถ๐˜ฆโ€๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฌ๐˜ด ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ.

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