Prompt Patterns That Work Across Every Assistant
Seven reusable prompting patterns, from role and few-shot examples to critique loops, with templates you can paste into any chatbot.
Once you can write a clear prompt, patterns help you get consistently better results. A pattern is a reusable shape for a request. These seven work on Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Copilot and most others, because they rely on how language models behave in general, not on one vendor's features.
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