Quick check
Guess first, no penalty. The AI's draft (its first version) has the right facts but is too long and too formal. What's the best next message?
A prompt is the message you send to the AI. The first answer is a draft, not the final version. Follow-ups, the short replies you send next, work best when they point at one thing:
Make this shorter. Keep it under [80] words.
More formal. I am writing to [a client / my manager].
Keep paragraph 2. Rewrite paragraph 1 so it starts with the result.
Turn this into a table with [3] columns.Change one or two things at a time. If you ask for five changes at once and the answer gets worse, you won't know which change caused it.
Fill the gaps
Fill the gaps in a targeted follow-up.
Prompt
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Start a fresh chat when it gets confused
A long chat carries its whole history. Old mistakes stay in the context and can keep coming back.
Signs that you need a new chat: it repeats a mistake you already corrected, it uses details from ten messages ago, or the answers get longer and vaguer. Start clean, and paste only what matters: the task, your style example, and the latest draft.
Try it
Your steps, about 2 minutes
- 1.Run a prompt for a task you do every week, like a status update. Then send one targeted follow-up, such as "shorter" or "more formal".2 min