Make it ask before it answers
Four lines that stop a model guessing at what you meant. It interviews you until it can actually do the task, which turns a mediocre first answer into a usable one.
The prompts that change the most for the least effort. None is longer than a paragraph, and three of them work best set once as a standing instruction rather than pasted per task.
A sequenced stack — each prompt is meant to feed the next.
How to use it
If you only take four things from this library, take these.
They are deliberately short. The prompts that circulate widely and get used daily are rarely the elaborate ones — they are three or four lines that fix a failure you hit constantly. Make it ask before it answers fixes the biggest one: the model doesn't have enough information, so it invents the missing half and answers fluently anyway.
The first two work better as standing instructions than as one-offs. Put them in your project or custom instructions once and every conversation starts in a better place.
The stack
Work top to bottom. Copy a prompt, run it, then carry what you learned into the next.
01 → 04
Four lines that stop a model guessing at what you meant. It interviews you until it can actually do the task, which turns a mediocre first answer into a usable one.
A standing instruction that removes the praise, the restating, and the closing summary — so the reply is only the part you actually needed.
A deliberately short editing prompt: improves readability without changing structure, meaning, or the way you sound. The one people paste most often.
A short setup prompt: hand it three things you've written, have it derive the rules of how you write, then hold it to them for the rest of the session.
Keep going
Six prompts covering what a marketing team actually ships in a week — positioning, the landing page, the deck, the leave-behind one-pager, outreach, and social that isn't about nothing.
The four prompts for the part of job hunting that is actually work: making a résumé match one posting, writing a letter that couldn't be sent to anyone else, and walking in prepared.
For the management work nobody trains you for — giving feedback that lands, cutting scope when the date won't move, and writing the update people actually read.