Why do my prompts get bland responses?

Vague prompts yield generic outputs; adding context and tone leads to richer results.

Is it okay to include emotion?

Yes; indicating sentiment helps the AI choose appropriate language and style.

How do I know if my prompt is good?

Test it; refine until the AI output matches your expectations and resonates with your audience.

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Beginner

ChatGPT

Writers and Marketers

Southeast Asia

Humanising Your AI Prompts for Better Responses

AI Prompting; Communication; Marketing

AI Snapshot

The TL;DR: what matters, fast.

Add context and emotion to prompts
Specify tone and audience
Revise prompts based on feedback

Perfect For

Marketers, writers and anyone who wants to get better AI-generated content by improving their questions.

The phrase 'humanise this prompt' gained popularity, reflecting the desire for more natural and empathetic AI responses. A well-crafted prompt yields better results.

Why Humanising Prompts Matters

AI responds literally to the text provided; adding context, emotion and a clear audience helps generate more relatable and accurate outputs.

Framework: Context → Emotion → Tone → Outcome

First, set the context; second, express the desired emotion; third, specify the tone; and fourth, describe the intended outcome.

Common Mistakes and How to Fix Them

Mistakes include vague or generic prompts, missing critical information and ignoring audience. Fix by adding detail, specifying tone and iterating.

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Prompts

Rewrite for Empathy

Rewrite a bland prompt

Take the prompt ‘Write a product description for a mug’ and rewrite it to include context, emotional appeal and a clear call to action.

Tone Specification

Set tone

Ask an AI to write a thank-you note to a mentor. Specify the desired tone as warm and professional, and provide relevant context.

Prompt Revision

Improve a prompt

Analyse this prompt: ‘Explain climate change.’ Suggest three improvements to make it more specific and human.

Frequently Asked Questions

Ready to experiment?

Pick one of these prompts and see where it takes you. The interesting bit is not just getting results - it is discovering what happens when you tweak the parameters or combine different approaches. If you end up with something unexpected (whether that is brilliantly unexpected or amusingly terrible), we would genuinely love to see it.

Share your results, your variations, or the weird tangents you went down trying to get things just right. That is often where the best insights come from: the collective trial and error of people actually using these tools in practice.

And if you found this useful, we have got plenty more practical how-to guides covering everything from creating images for your blog to helping you automate boring work tasks. Each one is built the same way: real techniques, actual examples, no fluff.

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