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Elton Jones

I use these 5 prompts to stop AI from giving me lazy answers — the difference is huge

Chatbot lineup.

Asking AI loaded questions that require deeper, more introspective answers has become part of my daily routine.

I’ve worked through a checklist of questions about gaming, movies, music, famous personalities and AI itself, using them to push ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude toward more thoughtful responses. But when I was first getting started with AI tools, I asked these kinds of questions in a surface-level way and was disappointed when the answers felt just as shallow. I quickly learned I shouldn’t have been surprised.

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