Secret Prompts: 75 Power Techniques Most People Never Use

Before You Start: What "Secret" Means Here

The word "secret" in the title means rarely taught. It does not mean hidden, forbidden or unlocked.

There are no jailbreaks in this book. There are no tricks for getting around the safety systems of any AI provider, no instructions for making an assistant ignore its rules, and nothing here that goes against any provider's terms of use. Every technique is something you can use openly, in an ordinary conversation with a general-purpose AI chat assistant such as ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.

So why "secret"? Because most people learn to use AI by typing a question and accepting the first answer. They never learn that the shape of the request changes the quality of the result. The seventy-five techniques that follow are request shapes: ways of asking, structuring, checking and iterating that people who use AI every day tend to discover slowly, by trial and error. Collecting them in one place saves you that time.

How This Book Is Organized

The book has eleven chapters and an index.

• Chapter 1 shows you how to use the book and how to chain techniques together.
• Chapters 2 through 10 hold the seventy-five techniques, numbered S1 to S75, in nine groups.
• Chapter 11 covers responsible use.
• The index at the end maps goals such as "I want to decide" or "I want to write better" to technique numbers.

Every technique is laid out the same way, so you can scan quickly:

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