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Amanda Caswell

I used ChatGPT wrong for months — these 3 simple 'system' prompts changed everything

Man sat at desk working on computer.

I used ChatGPT the same way most people do, which is asking a question and getting a response. This isn't the wrong way, by the way. However, there is an even better way to get more from AI.

Regardless of what AI tool you use, Claude, Gemini or ChatGPT, you can get so much more out of it if you use it as a system you plug your thinking into. Let me explain —once I stopped asking random questions and started using a few simple “systems,” everything clicked. Here are the three I now use almost every day.

1. The decision system

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