Here is another prompt framework to save you time.

Answering your questions about business and technology

Question

Someone mentioned a system prompt the other day and I don’t know what that is.  Can you help me?~ Sue

If you have a business, you (hopefully) know how important customer retention is. 

After you’ve gone through the interface of your AI tool of choice - like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini - it might be helpful to have some straightforward prompting templates to come back to.

Answering your questions about business and technology

Question

Some people that I talk to tell me that I am supposed to talk to ChatGPT like it’s a human and other people tell me not to ever do that.  Who should I listen to?~ L.B.

You don’t always have to have AI tools do something for you.  You can also have them work with you on tasks.  

Answering your questions about business and technology

Question

When I ask GPT-5 to ask me clarifying questions, it doesn’t seem to ask as many as previous models did.  Am I doing something wrong?~ Anonymous

Yes, this is the classic framework for goal-setting but you can apply it to AI tool prompts as well.  

One of the challenges for ChatGPT has been that it gives you the answer if you ask it a question.  Usually this is what people want.  In some cases, though, they want to learn a topic and are looking more for guidance than just the answers.

Answering your questions about business and technology

Question

There are differences between GPT-5 and the old models that I am used to using.  Do you have a framework that I can use with GPT-5 to help structure my prompts to get consistently better results?~ Joe