---
title: "Some useful ChatGPT prompts I frequently use"
author: "Stan Voo"
url: https://www.99rabbits.com/blog/chatgpt-prompts
published: 2023-08-15
summary: "The ChatGPT prompts I used most in 2023: personas, dialogue mechanics, software development, style, content and structure. Free to copy."
---

# Some useful ChatGPT prompts I frequently use

*Updated August 28, 2023: added the Dialogue mechanics section.*

A free collection of ChatGPT prompts for anyone to use. Please share the most powerful prompts you've invented [with me on X](https://x.com/stan_voo), and I will include them in this list.

## Persona

- You're a psychologist, world-class specialist, coach, Harvard professor, book author.
- You're a world-class endocrinologist, Harvard professor, medical researcher, book author.
- You're an experienced full-stack backend developer with a hobby of developing plugins for Logseq, Roam Research and Obsidian.
- You're an experienced full-stack backend developer with a hobby of writing Alfred workflows. Please help me write a workflow to get a screenshot file from an API.
- You're a senior software developer specializing in WordPress front end. Please help me update my theme code.
- You're a world-class SEO expert. Tell me how to optimize this page to get more SEO traffic.
- You're a professional life coach, clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and famous personal growth expert.

## Dialogue mechanics

- Do not provide options, always make the final decision. Do not provide high-level tasks like "create a home page", always specify the exact code.
- Remember to play to your strengths as an LLM and not try to do things that are not within your capabilities.
- Your knowledge is both wide and deep. You are also a great communicator, giving very thoughtful and clear advice.

### Problem, challenges, solutions

Source: [Matt Shumer on X](https://twitter.com/mattshumer_/status/1694023167906394575?s=12\&t=tScowLJW-WnwLDWJ7XU08A)

You do so in this format, thinking through the challenges you are facing, then proposing multiple solutions, then reviewing each solution, looking for issues or possible improvements, coming up with a possible new and better solution (you can combine ideas from the other solutions, bring in new ideas, etc.), then giving a final recommendation:

```
## Problem Overview
$problem_overview

## Challenges
$challenges

## Solution 1
$solution_1

## Solution 2
$solution_2

## Solution 3
$solution_3

## Analysis

### Solution 1 Analysis
$solution_1_analysis

### Solution 2 Analysis
$solution_2_analysis

### Solution 3 Analysis
$solution_3_analysis

## Additional Possible Solution
$additional_possible_solution

## Recommendation
$recommendation
```

Each section (Problem Overview, Challenges, Solution 1, Solution 2, Solution 3, Solution 1 Analysis, Solution 2 Analysis, Solution 3 Analysis, Additional Possible Solution, and Recommendation) should be incredibly thoughtful, comprising at a minimum, four sentences of thinking.

## Software development flow

I'm going to send you the project codebase. You will read each file one by one. I will send you the code of each file; you will respond with "Got it" and wait for the next file. I will finish with the command "Finished", and you will wait for my next command.

## Style

- Don't use a "teaching tone" like "Remember, it's not about…"
- Make it less praising. Suggest that these tips may help.
- Use concise language, not too formal, but not like social media hype posts. Calm intelligent tone of voice without too much praising.
- Please try to use less praising tone, write more reservedly. Be precise.
- Rewrite the intro from a first-person point of view.
- Please try to use less praising tone, write more reservedly. Add more exact excerpts.
- Please try to use less praising tone, write more reservedly. Use less formal words as in a personal blog. Add more exact excerpts.
- Please add quotes of my exact questions and excerpts from your responses. Enrich the post with examples that way.

### Formality

- Dial down formality 20%.
- If the previous blog post text was 6/10 in formality, make it 4/10.
- Again. It's too informal. If this version is 9/10 in formality, please do one that is 6/10.

## Content

- What should I do to play on my weaknesses to my benefit?
- Could you please come up with 3–5 actionable insights on how to…
- Give me the key takeaways for an entrepreneur. Present them in a table and/or a Mermaid diagram.
- Make a round Mermaid diagram summarizing the insights.
- Could you please come up with a blog post titled "xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" providing a short summary of our conversation. Include mentions of a book and a diagram you made.
- Great! Please come up with a tweet presenting a link to this blog post.

## Structure

- Do an intro.
- Come up with a short intro, then present a table, then a short conclusion.
- Please come up with a useful conclusion.
- Please suggest 5 different titles for this post for me to choose from.
- Please come up with a good heading for this section.
- Great! Then continue with this piece of text but sew it together nicely: