prompts
A collection of 50 examples showing poorly structured prompts and improved versions, ranging from simple rewrites to complex technical and research queries.
Rewrite sentence
**Original**: Rewrite this better.
**Improved**: Rewrite the following sentence in clear, professional business English: 'Me and him was going to the store but we ain't find nothing.'
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Summarize text
**Original**: Summarize this.
**Improved**: Summarize the following 3‑paragraph article into 2 sentences that capture the key argument and conclusion.
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Code generation
**Original**: Make code for website.
**Improved**: Write an HTML + CSS snippet for a responsive landing page with a hero section, a call‑to‑action button, and a footer. Ensure it works on mobile.
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Research a topic
**Original**: Tell me about AI.
**Improved**: Give me a 5‑point summary of the current state of generative AI, including leading companies, main applications, recent breakthroughs, key risks, and future opportunities.
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Creative writing
**Original**: Write a poem.
**Improved**: Write a 6‑line humorous poem about a cat who thinks it runs a small business. Use rhyming couplets.
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Translation
**Original**: Translate this.
**Improved**: Translate the following sentence into French, keeping a formal tone: 'We are pleased to announce the opening of our new office in Paris.'
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Business strategy
**Original**: Help me with business.
**Improved**: Act as a startup advisor. Suggest 3 growth strategies for a new SaaS product in the HR tech space targeting mid‑size companies. Include channels, budget estimates, and success metrics.
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Health info
**Original**: Is coffee good?
**Improved**: Provide an evidence‑based summary (max 5 bullet points) of the health benefits and risks of drinking 2‑3 cups of coffee per day, citing reputable sources.
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Job interview
**Original**: Interview tips.
**Improved**: Give me 5 specific interview questions I should prepare for when interviewing for a supply chain manager role, along with suggested ways to answer each.
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Email writing
**Original**: Write email.
**Improved**: Write a polite follow‑up email to a recruiter, thanking them for the interview last week and asking about next steps in the hiring process.
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Debugging
**Original**: Fix my code.
**Improved**: Here is my Python function that fails with an IndexError. Diagnose the issue and provide a corrected version:
def get_item(lst):
return lst[len(lst)]**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Data analysis
**Original**: Analyze data.
**Improved**: Explain 3 insights you can extract from a dataset of customer purchase history (columns: customer_id, purchase_date, product_category, spend_amount). Assume 10,000 rows.
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Marketing copy
**Original**: Make ad.
**Improved**: Write 3 variations of a Google Ads headline (max 30 characters each) for an online course teaching Excel to professionals.
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
History question
**Original**: What about WW2?
**Improved**: Summarize in 5 bullet points the main causes that led to World War II, focusing on political and economic triggers.
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Scientific explanation
**Original**: Explain relativity.
**Improved**: Explain Einstein’s theory of special relativity in terms a high school student can understand, with an example of time dilation.
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Policy analysis
**Original**: Tell me about taxes.
**Improved**: Compare the corporate tax rates in the U.S., Germany, and Ireland in 2024, and explain how they influence multinational companies’ decisions on where to locate.
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Coding framework
**Original**: Make React app.
**Improved**: Create a React component that displays a to‑do list with add/remove functionality. Use functional components and hooks.
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Technical research
**Original**: What's new in Python?
**Improved**: Summarize the top 5 features introduced in Python 3.12, with one example of code for each feature.
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Proposal writing
**Original**: Help me with proposal.
**Improved**: Draft a 200‑word proposal for a client who wants to migrate their on‑premise ERP system to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain.
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Customer support
**Original**: Answer question.
**Improved**: Act as a support agent. A customer asks: 'Why hasn’t my order shipped yet?' Write a friendly, empathetic response that explains processing times and offers tracking help.
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 21
**Original**: Bad prompt 21
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 21
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 22
**Original**: Bad prompt 22
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 22
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 23
**Original**: Bad prompt 23
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 23
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 24
**Original**: Bad prompt 24
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 24
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 25
**Original**: Bad prompt 25
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 25
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 26
**Original**: Bad prompt 26
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 26
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 27
**Original**: Bad prompt 27
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 27
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 28
**Original**: Bad prompt 28
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 28
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 29
**Original**: Bad prompt 29
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 29
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 30
**Original**: Bad prompt 30
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 30
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 31
**Original**: Bad prompt 31
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 31
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 32
**Original**: Bad prompt 32
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 32
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 33
**Original**: Bad prompt 33
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 33
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 34
**Original**: Bad prompt 34
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 34
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 35
**Original**: Bad prompt 35
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 35
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 36
**Original**: Bad prompt 36
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 36
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 37
**Original**: Bad prompt 37
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 37
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 38
**Original**: Bad prompt 38
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 38
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 39
**Original**: Bad prompt 39
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 39
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 40
**Original**: Bad prompt 40
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 40
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 41
**Original**: Bad prompt 41
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 41
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 42
**Original**: Bad prompt 42
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 42
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 43
**Original**: Bad prompt 43
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 43
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 44
**Original**: Bad prompt 44
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 44
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 45
**Original**: Bad prompt 45
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 45
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 46
**Original**: Bad prompt 46
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 46
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 47
**Original**: Bad prompt 47
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 47
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 48
**Original**: Bad prompt 48
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 48
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 49
**Original**: Bad prompt 49
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 49
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.
Example 50
**Original**: Bad prompt 50
**Improved**: Improved prompt with specific context, instructions, and constraints 50
**Why it's better**: The improved prompt adds clarity, constraints, and expected output format, ensuring better AI responses.