Artificial Intelligence, Copywriting & Prompt Engineering
31 AI Prompts better than “Rewrite”
Ditch “rewrite” and improve your AI content immediately
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One of the top uses for AI text generators is to “rewrite” text. Maybe you’ve got marketing material to beef up. Or an old blog article to revitalize. Or maybe you’re a student with an essay due tomorrow. So you hit “Rewrite”.
Whatever your circumstances are, chances are you’re not seeing the results you want. That’s why I’m here, to share my favorite prompts from my stash.
A.I. Prompts: You get what you ask for 🧞
A.I. seems like a magic genie for writers. It’s almost like we have a new world of content available at the press of a button. It’s all for the asking.
That’s why it’s frustrating when A.I. output doesn’t work. The issues arise when we don’t know how to ask the content generators for what we want.
A big part of prompt whispering is working out “wishes”. A good prompt engineer will frame a prompt precisely and choose their words carefully. How we ask, and the subtext of the words, are as important as the ‘what’.
The most common cry for help I hear is: “Why does rewrite just repeat?”
Why “Rewrite” is not a powerful prompt:
Sometimes (but not always) a prompt like this just results in a carbon copy:
Rewrite the above article
People wonder why it won’t give them an entirely new piece of content.
But put yourself in the A.I.’s shoes, or better yet, Bart Simpson’s. When you give it a sentence and ask it to rewrite it, AI takes it literally and repeats it:
Even if you ask a human personal assistant to “rewrite” a draft for you, it doesn’t mean all-new original content, or starting from scratch. Usually it means a second run-through or a polish. Unfortunately, when the AI takes your command literally, it can result in verbatim content and plagiarism.
