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Microsoft Copilot prompts: Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams

How to phrase your requests to Copilot in Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams, with ready-to-adapt prompts and the checks you shouldn't skip.

4 min read

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Mistral's Le Chat, now Vibe: how to use it well

Le Chat is now called Vibe. What changed, how to hand it a task, turn on web search, create a skill, and set your data preferences.

6 min read

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NotebookLM: Working From Your Own Sources

How to query NotebookLM on your documents: choosing sources, asking questions that force citations, and spotting what it still makes up.

4 min read

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Perplexity Prompts: Search Better and Verify Your Sources

How to ask Perplexity a research question, cross-check its sources, frame Deep Research, and avoid mistaking a citation for proof.

6 min read

By profession

Prompts for restaurant owners: menu, customer reviews, and social media

Describe a dish without saying "authentic," reply to a 2-star review, prepare a post for the lunch special: three prompts you can test during service.

3 min read

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HR Prompts: Job Postings, Interviews, and Replies to Candidates

A posting that describes the real job, an identical interview guide for everyone, rejections written with care: three HR prompts and their safeguards.

5 min read

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SEO Prompts: From Query to Published Page, Step by Step

Search intent, brief, title tags, internal linking, updates: SEO prompts to feed with your real data so you avoid made-up numbers.

6 min read

Getting started

When it's better not to use AI

A costly mistake, a two-minute task, an intimate message, confidential data: six situations where AI wastes your time or exposes you to risk.

4 min read

Getting started

English or Your Own Language: Which to Write Your Prompts In

The tools understand most languages, but some cases justify English. When to switch, how to ask for a translated answer, and the test to run.

3 min read

Advanced techniques

Getting AI to Reason Step by Step: When and How

"Think step by step" sometimes helps and does nothing elsewhere. The cases where it changes the result, and prompts to check the math.

5 min read

Sell your prompts

Writing a Prompt Listing That Sells: Building Trust

Title, excerpt, result, limits: what a buyer looks for on a prompt listing, with a rewritten example and two review prompts.

6 min read

Advanced techniques

Reducing AI hallucinations: the methods that work

An AI invents sources, figures, and functions with total confidence. The instructions that limit the risk, and what no prompt can ever fix.

5 min read