Briefle words · Prompt craft
Anchoring
When an AI sticks too closely to an example or starting point and copies it instead of generalizing.
Say it to an AI
Write a two-sentence speaker bio for Sam Okafor (8 years in UX research, head of research at Tidewell, hosts a podcast on user interviews). Match the dry, self-aware tone of the sample below but use it for tone only: no reused sentences, structure or jokes.
How an expert would ask for the stronger version of “Conference speaker bio”.
See it
Try it as a puzzle →A UX researcher asks an AI for a short speaker bio, using a friend's bio he admires as the model.
Why: B's reply reuses Dana's structure word for word: 'spent eight years breaking … so you don't have to … where he mostly says no to things.'
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Room 4 · Examples & references
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