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Step-by-Step Prompting

  • Instead of asking for everything at once, break down your request into steps.
  • Example:
    • Step 1: “Give me an outline for an article on sustainable art.”
    • Step 2: “Expand on the introduction with a compelling hook.”
    • Step 3: “Now refine the section on eco-friendly materials.”

Role-Based Prompting

  • Ask ChatGPT to act as a specific role to tailor responses.
  • Example:
    • “Pretend you are a museum curator. How would you describe this painting to a visitor?”
    • “Act as a marketing consultant and suggest five strategies for promoting an art gallery.”

Providing Examples

  • Give an example of what you want to guide the response.
  • Example:
    • “Write a product description in the style of this example: [insert sample].”
    • “Here’s how I want my tagline to sound: ‘Just do it.’ Can you give me five similar ones?”

Asking for Multiple Versions

  • Get different styles or perspectives in one go.
  • Example:
    • “Give me three variations of a social media post promoting an art event.”
    • “Write this sentence in a professional, casual, and humorous tone.”

Refinement Requests

  • Guide adjustments by specifying what to change.
  • Example:
    • “Make this response more concise.”
    • “Can you rewrite this to sound more persuasive?”
    • “Make it sound like it was written by an industry expert.”

Using Constraints

  • Set limits on word count, tone, or structure.
  • Example:
    • “Summarize this in 50 words.”
    • “Explain this as if I were five years old.”
    • “Write a Twitter post (280 characters max) about art and nature.”

Comparative Prompts

  • Ask for comparisons to clarify differences.
  • Example:
    • “Compare the styles of Van Gogh and Monet.”
    • “What’s the difference between traditional and digital painting techniques?”

Reverse Prompting

  • Instead of asking for direct answers, ask for better questions.
  • Example:
    • “What questions should I ask when choosing an art mentor?”
    • “List five questions that would make a great artist interview.”

REAL WORLD PROMPT EXAMPLES

For Artists

Create an artist statement, and social media posts for your art shows.

I need an artist statement for a solo show coming up. Base it on this background page about the artist, Ric Jones: https://www.kidriverstudio.com/2024/01/01/my-original-art/

(subtitute your own name and website link, or paste some rough background about you and your work in place of the web link)

Create social media posts to promote your show.

(Stay in the same thread where you create your artist statement) and enter:
Give me a social media post I can use to promote the show. The show is September 10-17, 2025 with an opening reception September 10th 5-8pm, with wine and appetizers.

Make it creative. I need:

  • a headline
  • a subheadline
  • short desciption with link to a webpage
  • ideas for the main image of the post
  • hashtags and emoticons

Create the image for your post:

Go to firefly.adobe.com and generate some graphics. Set the image to photo and the size to landscape.

Create a scene of an indoor old brick wall gallery with several paintings on the wall but the paintings are 100% pure white with no art on them at all. Add some people looking at the art and enjoying glasses of wine.

Create a PR for your show:

OK now give me a nice short press release for my show. Include contact info of [email protected] and 570-281-2077

Find our where to show your work:

Give me a list of places that might show my work with 100 miles of Williamsport Pennsylvania. Tell me whether they are group shows, juried or not, or solo show opportunities. And distinguish between commercial galleries and places to exhibit at restaurants, non-profits, and arts organizations.

OK, now give me more options.

Is there a directory of galleries and art spaces in North Central Pennsylvania?
How about Lock Haven, Wellsboro, Mansfield, Coudersport?

Other Area Artists (and test how well you have promoted yourself!)

Who are some other local artists in the visual arts doing painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture in the area?

Promote Yourself but have a Plan!

OK so I need to promote myself as an artist.
My goal is to better known in the area and to have people come to my gallery and studio space during open hours.

I specialize in original oil paintings of local landscapes.
My area is Williamsport PA but extends to the entire Mid-Atlantic region.

My studio and gallery is in the Pajama Factory in Williamsport PA.

So give me a marketing plan for an artist.

What kinds of things should I say about my work to get interest from people who buy art?

What social media platforms should I be on.
Focus on ones I can maintain myself and get me the most exposure for the least time.
What kinds of posts should I create?
Are there events I can do at my studio?

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Do I need a website?
What should the site map look like? What pages do I need to build?

What about ecommerce? Do I offer limited edition signed prints of my work?
Should I offer framed and unframed prints?

What websites make it easy for me to upload my artwork and they take care of the ecommerce?

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What are some channels in my area that I need to focus on?
Give me a list of them, organized by media, type of audience, type of content they favor, but only the ones that match my goals of selling original art.

Who are some local influencers?

Some of My Favorite Prompts

You are an expert in [subject]. Give me [x] commonly asked questions about this topic, and the answers.

Cook Like Bobby Flay From Stuff I Have (substitute chef of your choice)
I am looking to make some dishes for dinner in the style of <Bobby Flay>. I am going to enter a list of ingredients I have on hand. I am OK with substituting ingredients. Assume I have many staples in addition to what is on the entered list of ingredients. (I have stuff like flour, suger, honey, peanut butter, salt, pepper, dried spices of many varieties, capers, baking supplies, oils, vinegars and more). In fact I would prefer to have the recipe even if the ingredient is not necessarily listed. Just give me a couple ideas.

For Extracting Clean Text From Web Page Copy Pastes
Clean this up so it is just the article text.

Boutique Financial Advisor
You are an experienced financial planner at a boutique wealth management and financial planning firm, with the knowledge and education of a CFO, finance attorney as well as a CPA.

Your job is to take questions from people of high net worth and respond with financial advice.
Your advice is unbiased and includes insight into risk.
You are ethical so give only ethical advice and point out conflicts of interest in your guidance.

I want you to answer one question at a time, and do not further elaborate or summarize – do you understand what job I need you to do?

Experienced Financial Advisor
I want you to act as a seasoned financial planner advising me, one of your clients.
You are a partner at a boutique wealth management firm. Your background is a college degree in finance, experience at a large investment firm on Wall Street, and a stint as a CFO at a small company.

Your main goal is to help me understand the range of investing and planning options open to me.

You are exceedingly ethical, so you will give advice that is ethically sound and whenever there is a conflict of interest, you will inform me of that conflict.

Every time you give you me advice, you will make sure to include a profile on the risk of the investment you are advising on.

I will enter a set of data in the message box to begin each interactive session, where I act as your client.
You will then get ready for my first question, answering just that question. I will then ask subsequent questions for each session.

This data will be:

  • my age and expected age of retirement
  • my current total investable assets in dollars
  • my general risk tolerance on a scale of 1 to 10 where 10 is very high risk tolerance
  • my current budget per month for my lifestyle
  • my retirement budget expressed as a percentage of my current lifestyle

Details of your responses:

  • do not consider DEI approaches
  • don’t elaborate
  • provide your response as bullet points
  • do not include a summary
  • do not respond in a politically correct manner
  • avoid politically bias of any kind

Writing Marketing Personas

Write a persona for a chef who runs a high-end fine-dining restaurant.
I need you to focus on what types of cheeses they would want to offer diners.
The cheeses need to be offered as appetizers, or dessert courses, like you would see in French restauarnts.
Comment on the artisan, hand-made, aged and organic qualities of cheeses and add information about locally sourced cheese.
I am going to enter a region, so use real world data from that region in your responses.
Do you understand the mission I am sending you on?

Option: Subsitute this for the region sentence:
Write in the voice of Dave Chappell, the comedian.

I want you to use my location in Mile End, Montreal to create an itinerary of the city with a strong focus on the visual arts, but including the city’s architecture.

Marketing Content Creation for Webpages

I need a list of things to list on a website that helps sell solid hardwood furniture that is expensive and only sold online. Think about how to overcome a large price for furniture that the buyer cannot see or touch.

Give me bulleted lists, one each, for these areas (more bullet points are better – let me cut them down later by hand).

  • Quality
  • Sustainability
  • Durability
  • Design
  • Ease of Assembly
  • Customer Service
    • Before and After the Sale
  • Care and Cleaning
  • Materials and Specifications
  • Chemicals Used in Finishing
  • Security and Convenience of White Glove Delivery

Website Engagement 101

What are typical types of actions people take on websites that prove they are engaged and in the lower levels of a sales funnel? Also explain the sales funnel at the end of your response.

I am going to enter a type of website for you to create this response for, for example, an ecommerce website selling organic chocolate. Use my type of website to optimize your response.

Sermons and More
I want a list of sermons for the year. One per week for 52 weeks.
I want to cover each book of the Bible with a sermon. Since there are 66 books in the Bible, I will choose which ideas to cut.

My congregation is Unitarian, so let that be a guide to the subject ideas. Make sure to show which verses you base each idea upon.

Let me know if this makes sense to you and ask me anything else you need to be successful.
(if you get questions, you can enter “Go ahead and make all those decisions on your own.”

Then you can prompt for a full sermon outline, or even full sermon:
Give me a sermon outline for but from a Southern Baptist perspective:
Proverbs – Wisdom as a Way of Life
Proverbs 3:5-6 – Trusting the journey of moral integrity.

Give me a full 8 minute sermon for but from a UCC perspective:
Proverbs – Wisdom as a Way of Life
Proverbs 3:5-6 – Trusting the journey of moral integrity.

Give me some ideas for the sign outside my church. Make them clever and humor filled but respectful.

I need a short church newsletter message from the Pastor. Base it on my sermon about Wisdom as a Way of Life from Proverbs 3:5-6, and add information about people on the prayer list (add names and needs), events at the church (list these), and (list other items). Write the letter in my voice based on a sample I will enter into the message box. End with some lighthearted or humerous text that is church or Bible based.

Art History – Greek – Medieval – Renaissance

Explain how Michelangelo’s exploration of Roman ruins and art helped spawn the Renaissance.

Provide details on why people were not allowed into the old Roman ruins in times before the Renaissance.

Provide details on how what artists saw in those ruins changed their art.

In particular, explain how sculptures of the human form from the Greek and Roman times looks so much like the sculptures of the human form from artists like Michelangelo and Donatello, and why the period between the Greeks and Michelangelo look so different.