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Let AI ask you questions first
People often ask me about the perfect prompt. Which template, which order, which magic words. My honest answer surprises most participants: I do not write my best prompts alone. I let AI question me first.
One sentence that changes everything
The technique is called the metaprompt, and it is almost embarrassingly simple. You describe what you want to achieve and what a good result looks like. Then you add one sentence: 'Ask me three to five questions first before you start.'
What happens then is interesting. The model does not immediately start writing based on what it thinks you mean. It asks about your target audience, about the tone, about what you have already tried, about the preconditions you forgot to mention. They are the questions a good colleague would also ask before they get to work.
In one of my workshops I put it like this: it is not you questioning the AI, it is the other way around. That reversal is the whole trick.
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