My Top Culture-Making AI Prompts

2024 marked the first year I used Chat GPT or some equivalent. Artificial Intelligence is and will permeate everything in the world going forward. I took Kevin Kelly’s advise and have been thinking about it more as a personal assistant. Here are some of my most useful prompts from AI.

Ideas for Family stuff

• Asking it to come up with a list of family night games to teach my kids _______.

• Asking it to come up with a list of experiences or moments about ___________ in style of Chip and Dan Heath (who wrote The Power of Moments).

• Asking for movie suggestions. What are 10 movies where the main character struggles with _______.

• Asking for 5-10 conversation question for kids (based on my kids ages) based on whatever movie or TV show we just watched. The questions ought to be aimed at engaging with the worldview of what we watched. My goal is to extract truth, values, and where the movie did and didn’t hit the mark.

• Asking for a list of ways [any parenting author I’ve liked] would engage with a certain issue I’m facing.

For learning Stuff

• Learning about any topic. But asking it to teach me like a specific person or at a 5-year old reading level.

• Asking about any topic that’s hard to grasp, but explain it to me in the style of Mr. Rogers.

• Asking about a philosophical concept, but explaining it to me like I’m 5.

• Copy and pasting a Hebrew of Greek word from the Bible and asking it to translate it.

Learning about myself

• Asking, “From all of our interactions what is one thing that you can tell me about myself that I may not know about myself.” (h/t).

• Asking it, “based on everything I’ve asked you, come up with an image.”

Managing Life

• Asking to convert a goal or aspiration I have into a SMART goal.