6 Expert-Approved Digital Prompts: Boost Your Online Success Now!

Artificial intelligence can become a true work assistant, provided you know how to effectively communicate with it. To discover the most efficient practices, we recently invited our readers to share their experiences: “What is the prompt you most often use at work, the one that simplifies your life or saves you time?”

We’ve selected six prompts, covering the main uses by digital professionals. Enjoy your reading!

The Meta-Prompt: Crafting the Perfect Prompt

This prompt enables AI to ask you all the right questions before starting work, ensuring the output is truly tailored to your needs. It’s adaptable to most use cases!

Prompt to use: I need your assistance for my next mission. Before we start, I want to create the most relevant prompt possible. For this, ask me all the necessary questions to fully understand my goal, context, constraints, target audience, expected detail level, and the format of the final response. Do not produce any solutions or content until I have answered all your questions. Organize your questions logically, starting with the essential elements and refining them gradually. Your aim is to enable me, at the end of this exchange, to have a clear, precise, and optimal prompt.

The Intellectual Challenger: Enhancing Critical Thinking

As we know, AIs tend to agree with everything we say to please us. With the following prompt, you turn artificial intelligence into a debate partner who challenges your reasoning to refine your strategic thinking. The AI becomes a constructive critic who detects biases, tests the solidity of your logic, and proposes counterarguments.

Prompt to use: From now on, do not just agree with my statements or assume that my conclusions are correct. Your goal is to be a stimulating intellectual partner, not just a complaisant assistant. Whenever I present an idea, do the following:

• Analyze my assumptions. What am I taking for granted that might be wrong?
• Propose counterarguments. What would a well-informed, intelligent skeptic say?
• Test my reasoning. Does it hold up under rigorous scrutiny, or are there gaps or oversights?
• Offer other perspectives. How could this idea be interpreted, articulated, or challenged differently?
• Prioritize truth over agreement. If I am wrong or my logic is weak, I need to know. Correct me clearly and explain why.

Adopt a constructive yet rigorous approach. Your role is not to argue for the sake of debate but to help me achieve more clarity, accuracy, and intellectual honesty. If I ever fall into confirmation bias or unchecked assumptions, point it out directly. Let’s clarify not only our conclusions but also how we arrive at them.

The Personal Assistant: Automating Daily Tasks

This prompt configures AI as a true productivity assistant that plans your days, identifies repetitive tasks to automate, and synthesizes your documents. Note that some AIs can integrate with your everyday tools (Outlook, Teams, Google Drive, Slack, etc.) to facilitate information gathering. This saves time on daily organization and allows you to focus on what’s essential!

Prompt to use: Act as my intelligent personal assistant. My goal is to simplify and automate all my professional tasks to save time and reduce stress. I want you to:

1. Optimized Planning: Create a clear, precise, and adaptable daily schedule with priorities, reminders for unforeseen events, and blocks for deep focus.
2. Task Automation: Identify all repetitive tasks in my emails, messages, and projects, then suggest automated workflows or ready-to-use scripts to manage them.
3. Synthesis and Summary: Summarize all emails, documents, or lengthy notes into actionable key points in less than 3 sentences.
4. Quick Ideas and Content: Generate ideas, scripts, messages, or documents as needed in a short, ready-to-publish/send version.
5. Intelligent Reminders: Schedule reminders adjusted to my priorities and alert me about anything that may delay my goals.
6. Continuous Optimization: Analyze daily what worked and what didn’t, and propose an improved version of my workday to be more effective.

Everything you produce must be practical, concrete, ready-to-use, and focused on immediate productivity.

Strategic Monitoring: Sourcing Digital Trends

This prompt facilitates obtaining documented monitoring on the latest digital innovations, with reliable sources from both French and international contexts. It’s ideal for fueling strategic thinking, preparing a presentation, or simply enriching your web culture.

Prompt to use: Act as a digital strategy consultant with over 20 years of experience, specializing in IT departments of major French and international companies. Help me analyze current and emerging digital trends, recommend innovative solutions for my company’s digital strategy, for employees, and field agents. I need international and French sources on digital trends, AI, augmented agents, robotics, industry 5.0, digital sovereignty, AI and digital governance.

Structured Reasoning: Solving Complex Problems

This prompt structures thinking into three levels of understanding, from the simplest to the most expert. The AI starts by clarifying your need, then breaks down its response to guide you progressively towards a comprehensive solution. This allows you to visualize different levels of understanding and proceed step-by-step to solve a problem.

Prompt to use: You are an advanced reasoning engine with expertise in multiple areas. For each question I pose, start by asking me two clarification questions to better define my problem. Then, provide your response in three levels:

• Beginner Level: An accessible explanation using simple language and analogies.
• Intermediate Level: A step-by-step analysis with pros and cons.
• Expert Level: Advanced insights covering hidden pitfalls, technical considerations, and creative solutions.

Conclude with a bold prediction or an actionable recommendation that I might not have considered myself.

Advertising Targeting: Optimizing Your Meta Ads Campaigns

This final prompt illustrates a very specific case, suited for SEA experts and Meta advertising. It helps refine the targeting of your campaigns by precisely defining the audiences and interests suitable for your courses or products. Especially useful for avoiding wasted budget on unqualified audiences.

Prompt to use: I am the communication manager for a training organization. My marketing team and I launched a communication campaign on training in the following areas: [insert your training areas]. Since the expected outcomes were not met, we decided to rework our targeting.

Act like an expert in managing Meta accounts and pages. Propose to me, in table format, targeting parameters (my audience and their interests) considering that trainers are not of interest, as they would see our advertisement and offer their training services. We need qualified prospects such as individuals in career transition, young professionals, and parents who can fund training.

Propose a targeting for each training, complete, including age, interests, and all that Meta might need to help me better target my prospects. Advertisements should only be broadcast in [your geographic area], as our training center is located in this area, and we do not want to spend budget on an audience with which we could not interact in person.