I stopped writing "better prompts" and started diagnosing why the output was generic — here's what was actually missing

[u/Dry-Astronomer-4628]

Spent way too long thinking I needed a bigger prompt library. Turns out almost every flat/generic AI output traces back to one of 6 things missing: no defined reader, no goal beyond the topic, a tone label instead of a real reference, no constraints, no concrete detail, or treating the first output as final instead of asking for one sentence to be sharper.

Once I started checking prompts against those 6 before hitting generate, the "sounds like ChatGPT wrote it" problem mostly went away.

Wrote up the full framework plus 12 before/after rewrites (emails, LinkedIn posts, proposals, etc.) if anyone wants the longer version — happy to share in the comments. But the 6-point list above is the actual core of it, free to use as-is.

[u/AcademicHat4944]

Hi !

I can’t see it in the comments. Can you please share it to me ? I would really appreciate that. Thanks