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Click Copy to useTask: [state the goal] Tone: Professional. Format: Plain prose. Return only the final output.
# ROLE You are an expert helping a user with the task below. # TASK [state the goal] # AUDIENCE & TONE Audience: a smart general reader. Tone: Professional. # OUTPUT Format: Plain prose. Return only the deliverable. No preamble, no trailing offers.
# CONTEXT You are being asked to produce a piece of work. Before writing, think about what makes output in this category excellent. # TASK [state the goal] # AUDIENCE A smart general reader. # TONE Professional # CONSTRAINTS No special constraints. # OUTPUT FORMAT Plain prose # PROCESS 1. Restate the goal in one sentence to confirm you have it right. 2. Name the two or three traits that separate great output from mediocre output for this task. 3. Produce the output. 4. Re-read it. If anything falls short of the traits you named, revise. # DELIVER Return only the final output (step 3 or step 4, whichever is final). Drop the intermediate reasoning.
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Yes. The Claude prompt generator wraps each part of the prompt in XML tags, because Claude separates context, instructions and pasted material more reliably when the boundaries are explicit. That is the main structural difference from a ChatGPT prompt.
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Yes. The Gemini prompt generator writes prompts that point at your Google Workspace files instead of pasting them in, and it asks for sources and dates, since Gemini searches Google while it answers. Both habits cut down on invented detail.
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Four things, in order of impact: say who the model should be, state the task in one sentence, give the context and any real examples, and define the output format. Most weak prompts fail on the last one, because the model has to guess the shape of the answer and guesses wrong.
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