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Amanda Caswell

I tried the 'viral' ChatGPT prompts everyone is sharing — here's what actually works

ChatGPT.

Social media is currently a graveyard of "Expert Prompt" cheat sheets. Neatly designed carousels on LinkedIn and Instagram promise to turn ChatGPT into everything from a Wall Street analyst to a tax strategist. But do they actually work? Or is "Role Prompting" just a placebo for better AI performance?

I spent some time stress-testing five of the most viral frameworks. I moved past the hype to see which ones produced actual value — and which ones were just hallucination traps. Some genuinely improved the responses. Others… not so much.

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