ChatGPT's initial responses to prompts usually appear polished and confident, yet any one of us can recall times they read something slightly (or extremely) off. It might just be a detail missing or a wrong assumption, but it's enough to throw off the whole answer. The usual response is to try and start correcting and nudging the AI, or simply starting over and hoping the answer eventually lands somewhere close to what was needed in the first place.
But even if you weren't clear enough for ChatGPT in your initial prompt, that doesn't mean you have to spend a lot of time afterward explaining what you meant. A simple prompt tweak and a bit of extra typing are a surprisingly effective way to shift the burden of clarification from the user to the AI model itself. Just add this simple instruction to the end of your prompt:
