5 AI Prompts That Will Transform Your Writing Forever – Forbes

ByBernard MarrByBernard Marr, Contributor. Generative AI tools are transforming professional writing, but most users aren’t maximizing their … [+] potential.Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are changing the way people write. This is both exciting and scary for professionals and those who simply enjoy reading and writing.The concept of AI taking on what is to us a very simple but intrinsically human task like writing does have big implications. How will it affect human creativity? Will all writing start to sound the same?I don’t think AI is going to replace good human writers. No one wants to read robotic, generic text that sounds like algorithms assembled it.On the other hand, it can be a powerful tool to help writers organize ideas, structure work, critically assess their own output and ultimately hone their writing skills.The difference between getting tools like ChatGPT or Gemini to write for you and using them to improve your own writing is all in the prompts, the natural language instructions telling the AI what you want.As with any instructions, more detail means more likely to hit the mark. So here are some prompts designed to help writers, editors and anyone who enjoys communicating and expressing their ideas in writing.These were written for ChatGPT but should work fine with other chatbots like Google Gemini or Claude.One of the most powerful features of ChatGPT (and the other language-based chatbots out there) is its ability to review work and suggest ways it can be improved. You can cut and paste your writing into the chatbot after the prompt or upload it as a file.Prompt: “Critically assess this text’s clarity, logic and factual accuracy. Evaluate how successfully it communicates its core message and addresses reader interest. Check for completeness and that no important aspect of the subject has been overlooked, bearing in mind the length and scope of the text. Provide a report giving steps that can be taken to improve it — for example, further research or more data.”All writers have that moment when the perfect word eludes them. Just replace the stand-in with the word that comes closest in meaning to the one you want to use.Prompt: “Please study this text and give me 10 options for replacing the word