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AI basics 2 min DREAM
Before you answer, ask me what you need to know.
An assistant that asks what it needs before it answers, for the rest of the chat.
Scene 18 prompts
AI basics.
Get straighter, shorter, better-sourced answers.
Short prompts that change how an assistant answers you: ask before answering, stop agreeing, say what it’s guessing, show its sources. Paste one at the start of a chat, or right after an answer you don’t trust. They work in any assistant and most take about two minutes.
The rest of the scene.
17 more prompts. Open one to make it yours.
AI basics 2 min Stop agreeing with me. Tell me where I’m wrong.
Honest pushback on your ideas for the rest of the chat, without the fake toughness.
AI basics 10 min What should I be using you for that I’m not?
Up to ten specific uses drawn from your own week, ranked, with a first prompt for the top three.
2 versions
AI basics 5 min Should I even be using AI for this?
An honest verdict on one task: hand it over, do it together, or keep it for yourself.
AI basics 2 min Give me the short version. I’ll ask if I want the rest.
Short answers from here on: the answer, up to two things to know and a line on what was left out.
AI basics 10 min What should I tell you once so I never have to say it again?
A short block of standing instructions for your assistant’s settings, built from how you like answers.
AI basics 10 min Help me write the note I’d hand any AI before we start.
A short note about you to paste at the top of any chat, with nothing private in it.
AI basics 2 min This chat got too long. Write the handoff for a fresh one.
A note that carries the goal, the decisions and the open questions into a new chat.
AI basics 5 min Show me everything you remember about me.
An inventory of what your assistant has stored and inferred about you, with sensitive items flagged.
Needs memory
AI basics 2 min I’m about to paste this into an AI chat. What should I take out first?
A short list of what to remove from the document you’re about to share, and what has to stay in.
AI basics 2 min Tell me what you know, what you think, and what you’re guessing.
One answer sorted by how sure the assistant is, with the single thing most worth checking.
AI basics 5 min What did you just assume about me?
The hidden assumptions in the last answer, ranked, and a second answer written for you.
AI basics 2 min Now read your answer like someone who wants to prove it wrong.
The weakest claim in the last answer, the best objection to it, and a clear keep or change.
AI basics 5 min Where did you get that? Show me sources I can open.
Each key claim in the last answer matched to a source you can open, or marked as unsourced.
Needs web search
AI basics 5 min I keep hearing this claim. Is it true?
A verdict on one claim, what it gets right and what it stretches, with sources you can open.
Needs web search
AI basics 5 min Another assistant told me this. What would you have said?
An independent read of another assistant’s answer: where it holds, where it slips, what to check.
AI basics 5 min Here’s the prompt I usually type. What’s missing?
Your prompt checked against the five DREAM parts, then rewritten with the gaps that matter filled.
AI basics 5 min Make this prompt work in any AI, not just the one I use.
Your prompt rewritten to run in any assistant, with what it still needs and what was cut.
The scenes next door.
AI basics is one of 12. These two sit on either side of it.