I tested 200+ ChatGPT prompts over 6 months. Here's what actually works.

Most prompt advice online is recycled garbage. "Be specific." "Give it context." Cool, but that tells you nothing actionable. Here's what I actually learned after obsessing over this for half a year: The prompts that consistently produced the best outputs had three things in common a clear role, a defined output format, and a constraint. Remove any one of those and the quality drops noticeably. Here are real examples of what that looks like: For writing: "Act as a direct response copywriter with 10 years of experience writing for online entrepreneurs.