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Brief your AI with TOUCH instead of a SuperPrompt
I now brief my AI with five letters: task, outcome, open questions, context and handover, because today's models guess the rest themselves.
In a workshop last week I built an onboarding assistant for an HR department live. I did not write a half-page prompt for that. It also contained no role and no list of tone instructions. It was five short steps. And I did not upload a single document for it.
Copy the prompt at the bottom of this article, then you have those five steps ready for your own task right away.
Why the SuperPrompt has done its job
I have worked long and often with an extensive prompt framework myself, CRAFTER. With the older models you had to write everything out. They did literally what it said. And they filled in the rest themselves, often incorrectly.
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AI is not Google: you are the answer machine
Anyone who uses AI as a search engine gets confident nonsense and thinks less for themselves. Anyone who uses AI as a thinking partner becomes sharper. The difference lies in the direction.
'If you use AI in a stupid way, it makes you stupider. If you use it in a smart way, it makes you smarter.' I say this in almost every workshop, and usually people laugh. Then it goes quiet, because everyone recognises themselves in the first half of that sentence.
Feel free to copy the prompt at the bottom of this article, so you can let AI challenge your own answer.
The search engine habit
Most people have been trained by search engines for twenty years. You type a question, you get an answer, you move on. It makes sense that we use AI in the same way. The window looks like that too: a box, a question, an answer.
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Let AI ask you questions first
You do not write the best prompt alone. With one sentence at the end you let AI question you first, and you become sharper in your own thinking.
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.
Below this article you will find the prompt package with six metaprompts that question you first, free for Members.
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.'
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