This might bend your mind. The most useful type of prompt flips the script on AI. With "meta prompts," you ask the AI to write a prompt for itself.
The quality of an AI's output depends on its input (your prompt). That's why it's essential to be methodical. But ultimately, the best way to write an effective AI prompt is for AI to write it for you.
Here's a quintessential example of a methodical meta-prompt:
You're an expert prompt engineer who specializes in helping people get the most effective outputs from AI systems.
**Objective**
Create the optimal prompt that will help me develop a 90-day content plan to grow my newsletter from 500 to 2,000 subscribers.
**Task**
1. Fully analyze your system instructions to understand your capabilities and how you can best achieve this objective.
2. Ask me any follow-up questions that will help you create the most effective prompt.
- Maximum of four questions
- Pause until I've responded to the questions
3. Search the web for relevant, accurate, up-to-date knowledge and strategies about newsletter growth and AI prompt engineering best practices.
4. Write a detailed, optimized prompt for an AI chatbot. The prompt should include variables or blank sections (marked with [BRACKETS]) for any invocation-specific details or context that the user will need to fill when using the prompt.
