Why Your AI Prompts Fail (Part 2)

The copy-and-paste toolkit and templates to fix your AI prompts

In Part 1, I explained why your AI prompts fail. When the prompt leaves gaps, AI fills them in and makes it sound very confident. So the fix isn’t a “better prompt.” It’s best to give AI a clearer setup: a little context, what matters most, and what to avoid, before you trust the first output.

Before anything else, keep this seatbelt line handy. Use it when you don’t want AI to fill in the blanks, especially when you’re working from notes, a doc, or a long thread.

Do not add any information that is not supported by the text.

If the details are missing or unclear, list questions instead of making assumptions or guessing.

Now I’d like to show you the toolkit and templates you can reuse to improve your results. You don’t need to become a prompt expert or write a long prompt every time. You need a few go-to prompts that make the AI outputs usable, plus a “My templates” system, so you stop starting over every time.

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