Questions tagged [gpt]
Post a PromptPrompts used with OpenAI's GPT family of models.
13 prompts
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Above-the-fold prompt that actually converts without a single dark pattern
I write landing pages for a living and I refuse to ship fake countdown timers, "14 people are viewing this", or manipulative confirmshaming. But when I ask AI for "high-converting" copy it reaches str
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Support-agent system prompt with escalation rules that actually hand off cleanly
I build customer support bots and the recurring failure is the bot pretending it can do things it can't (issue refunds, change a subscription) and then dead-ending the user. Or the opposite: it escala
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How do you prompt GPT for an editorial, type-driven landing hero (think magazine, not startup)?
I come from print. I want landing heroes that feel like the opening spread of a good magazine: a strong typographic idea, real hierarchy, confident negative space. What I keep getting from GPT is a co
18votes
2answers
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Prompt for a production-grade Python CLI with argparse, exit codes, and a self-check
Every weekend project starts with me asking a model for "a Python script that does X" and getting back a 20-line toy: no argument parsing, prints stack traces at users, returns 0 even when it failed.
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GPT prompt to scaffold a Next.js marketing site with sane structure, not one 800-line page.tsx
When I ask for a "Next.js landing page" I get everything crammed into one giant app/page.tsx with inline styles and no separation. Fine for a demo, painful the moment you want to edit the pricing sect
16votes
1answers
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Prompt for a CSV-to-chart tool that picks the chart type instead of me
I wanted an internal tool where an analyst pastes any CSV and gets a defensible chart without choosing a type. My first attempt just always drew a bar chart, which is nonsense for two numeric columns.
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Breakout prompt where the bricks shatter and the ball leaves a trail
I've built Breakout a hundred times and it's always the same flat rectangles blinking out of existence. This time I wanted the destruction to feel physical: bricks that crack, shatter into shards, and
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Forcing the model to write the failing test first instead of the impl
I do strict TDD and I wanted the model to do it with me, not for me. Default behavior with GPT is: ask for a feature, get the implementation plus some tests it wrote to match the code it just wrote. T
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Match-3 prompt with cascading combos and juice that reads at a glance
Match-3 is deceptively hard to make feel good. My first AI version detected matches and removed gems instantly, so the board just blinked and refilled with no sense of chain reaction. Dead. The naive
6votes
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Prompt for a tower defense with a wave curve that ramps without a difficulty wall
Built a tower defense in a hackathon and the enemy waves were either trivial or a sudden brick wall on wave 6. The balance was hand-tuned garbage. I tried to get the model to design the wave spawner a
8votes
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Turning a messy matplotlib notebook into one reproducible plotting script
I had a research notebook with 40 cells of exploratory plots, half of them relying on variables defined three cells up and a global rcParams tweak that only worked if you ran things in order. Sharing
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Pricing-page copy prompt that frames plans by user, not by feature-count tiers
Pricing copy is where products lie to themselves. The default AI output labels three tiers Basic/Pro/Enterprise and lists how many seats/projects each allows, which tells the buyer nothing about which
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Prompt for a Sokoban with guaranteed-solvable procedural puzzles
Sokoban is easy to render and brutal to generate: random box/goal placement gives you puzzles that are either trivial or literally unsolvable (a box shoved into a corner it can never leave). I wanted