Questions tagged [claude]
Post a PromptPrompts used with Anthropic's Claude family of models.
18 prompts
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Prompt that makes Claude generate a playable Snake game with juice and screen shake
Most snake-game prompts give you a joyless gray grid. I wanted arcade feel: particles, screen shake, an actual difficulty curve. After a lot of trial and error the prompt below consistently produces a
10votes
0answers
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System prompt for a customer support agent that knows when to escalate
We shipped a support agent and the biggest problem wasn't wrong answers, it was confident wrong answers on questions it had no business answering. This system prompt made escalation behavior reliable.
6votes
0answers
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Endless runner prompt with procedural obstacles that stay fair as speed ramps
Made a Canabalt-style one-button endless runner and the procedural obstacle spawner kept generating impossible sequences: two gaps back to back with no room to land, or a wall the instant you couldn't
24votes
1answers
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Admin dashboard prompt that doesn't produce the same three gray shadcn cards
Every dashboard I one-shotted came out as the identical layout: three stat cards on top, a big line chart, a table. Technically fine, visually indistinguishable from every other AI dashboard on the in
19votes
1answers
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Context-engineering trick to fit a 40-file module in one prompt cheaply
I kept blowing my context budget dumping a whole module into Claude for a cross-cutting change. Pasting all 40 files raw cost a fortune and buried the model in noise, so its edits drifted from the par
22votes
1answers
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How I prompt a platformer jump that feels like Celeste, not like a brick
The single biggest reason AI platformers feel bad is the jump. You get gravity, you get a jump impulse, and it's stiff and unforgiving. The magic is all the invisible assists that pro platformers ship
39votes
3answers
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Hypothesis-driven debugging prompt that stops the model guess-fixing
Classic failure mode: I paste a bug and the model immediately rewrites five things, half unrelated, and says "this should fix it." No hypothesis, no evidence, just vibes. When one of those changes acc
31votes
2answers
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One-shot prompt for a hero section that doesn't look like every other SaaS gradient
Every time I asked for a "modern SaaS hero" I got the exact same thing: centered headline, full-width purple gradient, a floating dashboard screenshot in fake browser chrome, and a three-emoji feature
13votes
2answers
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System prompt for a code-review agent that stops inventing style nitpicks
We run a review agent on every PR in CI. The first version was useless: it left 20 comments per PR, half of them were "consider renaming this variable" on code that hadn't changed, and it flagged form
28votes
1answers
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Prompt for a Snake game that actually feels juicy, not just a grid crawler
Every AI-generated Snake I've seen is technically correct and completely lifeless: a square that jumps one cell per tick with zero feedback. I wanted the arcade-cabinet feeling in a single HTML file.
10votes
2answers
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Prompt that adds characterization tests before it touches legacy code
I inherited a 12-year-old billing module with zero tests and a maze of nested conditionals. Every time I asked Claude to "refactor this to be cleaner" it happily rewrote the control flow and silently
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One-shot D3 time-series line chart that infers types from a messy CSV header
I kept feeding the model a CSV export from our analytics tool and getting a chart where the x-axis was treated as strings, so December sorted before February. The naive prompt ("plot this CSV as a lin
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One prompt for a convincing CRT / arcade shader overlay on a canvas game
I wanted my pixel games to look like they're running on an old arcade monitor, not a crisp modern LCD. Most AI attempts gave me faint horizontal lines and called it a CRT, which fools nobody. Asking f
8votes
1answers
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System prompt for a WebAudio chiptune sound engine I can reuse across games
I kept re-generating one-off beep functions for every game jam and they all sounded thin and clicky. I wanted one reusable sound engine module I could drop into any canvas game with named SFX and a li
10votes
1answers
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Prompt for a dark-mode pricing table that reads as premium, not a spreadsheet
I build a lot of dark-mode products and pricing tables are where AI output falls apart. The default is three equal cards, a wall of checkmarks, and one card with a garish "Most Popular" badge slapped