A simple sneaky prompt to make AI sound human

One of the most common complaints about AI-generated content…

Is that it sounds like AI-generated content.

Usually, this is because people are using bad prompts and/or aren’t given the AI enough context and examples of the output they want.

But even if you start with a bad prompt, there is a simple, one-line prompt you can use to improve the output you’re getting.

It is so obvious it’s hard to believe it works.

Thanks for reading.

Nathan

To show you how this works, I need to start with a bad prompt in ChatGPT:

This is a bad prompt because we give little information about our service, audience, the call to action, our desired style/voice, and no examples.

The output is bland, though passable:

Here’s the one-line prompt that can improve this output:

This simple instruction won’t turn this into amazing copy, but it does improve what we get:

This copy feels more relaxed and has more emotion.

We can continue iterating, and the clearer we specify the output we want, the better its responses will be.

For example, you can ask it:

Which gave me this:

Simple ways to get better results.

Your Turn

Try this for yourself the next time you ask AI to write a draft.

Here are a few ideas you can use.

Ask it to sound more:

• human

• funny

• relaxed

• happy

• excited

• upbeat

• silly

You can also tell it to avoid jargon and to avoid sounding like it was written by AI.

Here’s an example prompt combining some of these ideas:

Try these tips and let me know how it works for you!

Btw, giving ChatGPT that last prompt resulted in this updated FB ad for our dog-walker:

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