The prompt blog

Understanding AI

The EU AI Act Explained Simply: What Applies to You

The European AI regulation sorts uses by risk level. What it changes if you use a chatbot at work, plus a prompt to inventory your uses.

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Sell your prompts

Reviews and feedback: improving a prompt you've already published

Sort buyer reviews, tell a flaw in the prompt from a flaw in the listing, edit without breaking things, and check that the new version is actually better.

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Getting started

Anatomy of a Good Prompt: The 6 Elements That Matter

Task, context, material, constraints, format, example: we build a prompt piece by piece on a real case, with a blank template to fill in.

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Coding Assistants: How to Scope a Task Well

A coding assistant that edits several files needs a goal, a scope, and a success criterion. A brief template and how to review the result.

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Understanding AI

AI bias: how to spot it and limit it

Stereotypes, Anglo-American defaults, people-pleasing: a simple test to detect AI bias, plus prompts to correct it in everyday use.

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Advanced techniques

Prompt Chaining: Break a Complex Task Into Steps

One giant prompt gives you mediocre results across the board. A complete four-link example on a grant application, with the checks to run along the way.

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ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini: Which One to Choose for Your Use Case

A comparison by use case, with no ranking: writing, analysis, research, coding, image creation. Plus a simple test to settle it with your own tasks.

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How to write an effective ChatGPT prompt: method and examples

A failed prompt fixed line by line, limits that stop it from making things up, and the ChatGPT settings worth knowing, with templates to copy.

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How to Write an Effective Claude Prompt: The Practical Guide

XML tags, long documents, examples, projects, and skills: what really changes Claude's answers, and what no longer matters much.

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How to Write an Effective Gemini Prompt: Guide and Examples

Persona, task, context, format, Gmail and Drive, Deep Research: how to talk to Gemini and make the most of Google without giving it free rein.

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AI images

Effective Midjourney prompts: the method and the useful parameters

Structure, parameters, reference images and before/after: get the image you had in mind from Midjourney, not a lucky draw.

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