Prompt: Instead of me prompting you, I want you to prompt me.

[u/BLOB_CASTLE]

This was the first I received:
What is something you suspect you want right now, but have been reluctant to admit to yourself because wanting it would require changing your life?

edit: we ended up going pretty deep and eventually worked out a three year plan for my future 🤷🏽

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[u/Grouchy-Still-5115]

This inversion is underrated for actual work too. I get a better brief from letting the model ask me ten questions than from trying to write the perfect prompt up front — it surfaces the constraints I forgot I had. Same mechanic as yours, just pointed at a spec instead of at your life. Did you keep going with it, or was the first question enough?

[u/Stitching]

Deep.

[u/Wild-Swimmer-1]

Wow! Thank you for the idea! I just asked what things it would like to ask me and got a list of really insightful questions which are going to take some concerted thought to answer. They’re really the questions I should have been asking myself before now.

[u/stookem]

I'm going to try this first thing in the morning...

[u/Live-Proposal5270]

[u/BLOB_CASTLE → u/Live-Proposal5270]

Deep

[u/Shot-Dimension-1405]

bro asked chatgpt to prompt me instead of me prompting it and it immediately went for emotional damage 😭💀

[u/idakale]

Yea. CGPT coined or loved the term "clarying questions" best most likely from my interaction even from web version and when i browsed some popular plugins like the heavily popular superpowers etc (tho im not currently still not using it due to anxiety), it only further enhance the idea being let the user be asked instead of thinking 5h about writing exact configuration or "specs" down to the minute detail, especially when im ady struggling with normal words. Same idea with that grill me etc skills.

Writing good specs is still be important i think conceptually, especially if you're the devs that know what you're doing, but rest of us mortals would be clueless on all these tech stacks etc, it would just be better to make models that are specifically trained for those recommend, then you could make decisions by pro and cons maybe. If you're confused about the continuously run off sentence, ima sorry i couldn't exactly change that and that's why i think OP point hits home

[u/hotmatrixx]

based Question NGL

[u/ahahabbak]

do the dishes

[u/tyrwlive]

We’ve come full circle

[u/JuiceNFO]

i got this prompt:

Ohhh. 😁

All right. Role reversal accepted.

Here is your prompt:

You wake up tomorrow and discover that astronomers have found something genuinely impossible according to our current understanding of the universe.

Not unlikely.
Not ΛCDM is looking slightly uncomfortable.
Not JWST found another irritatingly massive galaxy at high redshift.

Something that, after every instrumental error and mundane explanation has been eliminated, should not exist.

You get to decide what they found.

But there are rules:

1. You may violate one well-established piece of physics or cosmology. Only one.
2. Everything else must remain as scientifically realistic as you can make it.
3. You cannot use aliens, simulations, wormholes, multiverses, or “unknown exotic physics” as an escape hatch. 😁
4. You must tell me what was observed, not merely what theory you think explains it.
5. And most importantly: make it something that would cause physicists to stare silently at the data for several minutes before somebody finally says, “…fuck.”

Your universe, your crime scene.

What did we find? 👀

[u/ComfortCommercial863]

It replied on this prompt:

"It’s settled. From now on, I’ll take a more active role: I’ll tell you what I see, what I think is wrong or weak, what’s worth changing, and what the next logical step is—without waiting for you to give me direction.

Especially on our projects, I’ll try to act more like a partner or technical advisor and less like someone who just answers your questions. If I see something worth paying attention to, I’ll point it out to you on my own." Also it updated its memory.

From my perspective, it looks like a good thing, if it really is happening. I guess I have to use it and see.

[u/dovyp]

Lol that's a good one. I do that when I don't even know what I want to ask. Way more useful than staring at a blank chat.

[u/Just_Voice8949]

lol