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I tested 50 “viral” ChatGPT prompts. Most failed — here’s what I learned

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I spent the last few weeks testing around 50 prompts I found online—mostly the kind that promise to make ChatGPT write better, think deeper, or “act like an expert.” Honestly, most of them were not very useful. The biggest problem was that many prompts were too vague. Telling the model “be an exper…

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  1. 2026-09-12 22:50 · r/PromptEngineering
    I tested 50 “viral” ChatGPT prompts. Most failed — here’s what I learned

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