Questions tagged [writing]
Post a PromptPrompts for copy, content, and technical writing.
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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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Prompt to turn a rambling meeting transcript into decisions, owners, and open questions
I was drowning in transcript summaries that were just shorter transcripts. "The team discussed X. Then they discussed Y." No signal. I switched to a prompt that extracts only three things and forces a
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How do I prompt for landing copy that sounds like a person, not a pitch deck?
Every draft came back in the same LinkedIn-influencer cadence: "Unlock. Empower. Transform." It read like six other startups. I got somewhere by giving the model a real voice sample and a hard banned-
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Prompt that generates an API reference from OpenAPI with realistic examples, not {string}
Generated API docs always have example values like "string", 0, true. Useless. Developers copy them and immediately hit validation errors. I feed the model the OpenAPI schema and force it to invent do
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Prompt for docstrings that document the WHY and the gotchas, not just the params
Auto-generated docstrings are useless: they restate the function signature in English. def add(a, b): """Adds a and b.""". Thanks. I wrote a prompt that reads the function body and forces it to docume
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System prompt to give a chatbot a consistent personality without it getting cutesy
Giving a bot "personality" usually means it starts every message with a quip and an emoji and becomes exhausting by the third turn. I wanted a distinct, dry voice that stays out of the way. The approa
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2answers
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Prompt that turns a messy codebase into a README people actually finish reading
Our README was the usual wall: a paragraph of marketing, then npm install, then nothing. New hires bounced off it constantly. What finally worked was forcing the model to write for one specific reader
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Prompt for a changelog that a non-engineer can actually read, grouped by impact
Our raw changelog was just squashed commit subjects. Customers ignored it because it was 40 lines of refactor(api): ... that meant nothing to them. I now generate two changelogs from the same merged P
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Prompt for commit messages that explain WHY, generated from a diff
My commit history was a graveyard of "fix", "update", "wip". Reviewing my own PRs a month later was archaeology. I wired a prompt into a pre-commit hook that reads the staged diff and drafts a Convent
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Prompt for release notes that read like a human wrote them, tone-matched to the product
Our release notes swung between robotic ("Bumped dependency versions") and try-hard ("We've been cooking up something special"). Neither felt like us. I built a prompt that takes a tone sample from ou
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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 that rewrites a dense technical blog draft to a target reading level without dumbing it down
My drafts read like release notes: correct, unreadable. I wanted them accessible to a junior dev without stripping the actual substance, which most "simplify this" prompts do by deleting the interesti
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How do you prompt for cold outreach that doesn't read like it was generated?
I needed to reach out to a handful of maintainers about a collaboration and refused to send the obvious "I hope this email finds you well" template that everyone deletes on sight. What worked was grou