5 Prompting Tricks to Make Your AI Less Average
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5 Prompting Tricks to Make Your AI Less Average

2025-10-19
AI is trained on the sum total of human output—which means it often produces the average of averages. That’s fine for passable results, but not for unique, high-quality work. In this weekend big think episode, NLW explores what he calls AI’s tyranny of the average and shares five techniques to break through it: using negative style guides, forcing divergence and choice, burning down clichés, prompting self-critique, and leveraging examples that defy consensus. Based on an essay by Alex Kantro...
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