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PARTLY "5 prompts I stole from a friend who's quietly outpacing me" — the prompts are fine; the friend is a writing device
The claim5 prompts stolen from a friend who's quietly outpacing everyone — Brain Dump, Voice Clone, Hard Reply, Lazy Genius workout, Regret Test. Most people don't realize ChatGPT can do this. These aren't basic.
Credit first: the full prompt text is in the caption itself — no 'comment PROMPTS,' no gate. The prompts run fine and two of them (Brain Dump, Hard Reply) are genuinely handy everyday templates. Now the grading: these are standard role-prompting patterns that have circulated in every prompt roundup for two-plus years. 'They're not basic' — they're basic. The 'friend quietly outpacing me' is a stock engagement frame, not a source. And the expert-replacement angle is inflated where it matters: the Regret Test is not a financial advisor and the workout prompt doesn't check your form. Useful starters, oversold origin story.
What holds up
- All five prompts are present in full, ungated — verifiable by reading, and they work as written
- Brain Dump and Hard Reply are legitimately useful daily templates
- Works on free-tier ChatGPT or Claude — the $0 claim holds
What doesn't
- "Not basic" is false — these are the oldest patterns in the prompt-pack genre
- The 'friend' framing is invented social proof
- Expert-replacement framing gets risky at the edges: don't take retirement or medical guidance from a 40-word role prompt
The catch
The only trick here is the packaging: recycled prompts wearing a story. Since the goods are free and functional, the cost to you is just the follow — and believing you've discovered something rare when you've been handed the starter kit.
How to actually do it
- Every 'secret prompt' is three parts: a role, your real context, and an output format. That's it
- Write your own: 'Act as [role]. Here's my situation: [real details]. Give me [format].'
- Feed it your actual writing/numbers/calendar — context is what separates useful from generic, not the prompt's wording
- Where stakes are real (money, health, legal), the prompt is a thinking aid, not the expert
- Anthropic's and OpenAI's free prompting guides teach this in 10 minutes and beat any pack
Skip the mystique — the entire technique in five lines.
- Effort
- 10 minutes to learn the pattern once, then never save a prompt pack again
- Cost
- $0
- Stack
- Free-tier Claude or ChatGPT + your own context
- Confidence
- High
- Posted by
- a prompt-tips account
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