{"slug": "show-hn-prompt-like-a-pro-master-ai-with-better-prompts", "title": "Show HN: Prompt Like a Pro – Master AI with Better Prompts", "summary": "Prompt Like A Pro, a free AI prompt generator that asks clarifying questions before writing prompts, claims its approach can improve prompt accuracy by up to 76 points compared to lazy prompts. The tool, built on prompt-engineering practices from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, is ad-free, requires no signup, and is maintained by one person. It generates structured prompts for use with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Midjourney, and other AI tools.", "body_md": "Three reasons the questions are worth the thirty seconds.\n\nStop lazy prompts\n\nLazy prompt = lazy answer. A model answers what you typed, not what you meant. Supercharge your prompts.\n\nWording is worth 76 points\n\nReformatting the same prompt can swing accuracy by up to 76 points. Structure is not decoration.\n\nOne draft, not five\n\nAnswer specific questions up front instead of rewording the prompt multiple times.\n\nBefore\n\nThe prompt\n\nwrite a cold email for my saas thing, make it sound good and get replies\n\nWhat you get\n\n“Dear Sir or Madam, I hope this email finds you well. I am reaching out to introduce our innovative, cutting-edge solution designed to help businesses like yours…”\n\nvague · generic · weak\n\nAfter\n\nThe prompt\n\n```\n<role> senior B2B copywriter\n<context> cuts onboarding time 40% for SaaS teams\n<format> 90 words, one CTA\n<tone> warm, specific, no fluff\n```\n\nWhat you get\n\n“Hi Sarah, saw OnboardIQ just raised. Teams your size usually lose ~40% of trials to setup friction. We fixed that for Acme in a week. Worth 15 minutes?”\n\nprecise · specific · tight\n\nBest-practice prompts, built with our own engine and ready for you to use. Copy one as-is, or customize it to your exact task in a click.\n\nPrompt Like A Pro is a free AI prompt generator that asks before it writes. Most prompt tools take one shot at whatever you typed. This one asks a few clarifying questions about your specific task first, then writes a complete, structured prompt from scratch, built on prompt-engineering practices from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. It's an independently built, ad-free tool maintained by one person, with no signup required. If you find it useful, you can [buy me a coffee](https://buymeacoffee.com/nadumanov) to help cover the AI costs behind it.\n\nBecause a one-shot rewrite can only work with what you already gave it. If your description leaves out the audience, the format, the length, or the constraints, a rewriting tool has to guess, and it usually guesses generic. The clarifying questions surface those missing details in about thirty seconds, so the finished prompt is right rather than merely longer. It's the same thing a human prompt engineer would do before writing anything: ask what you actually need.\n\nVery few do. Almost every prompt generator and prompt optimizer takes your text and rewrites it in a single pass, with no questions asked. The handful of tools that interview you first generally require an account and a paid plan. Prompt Like A Pro asks clarifying questions on every task, is free, and needs no signup.\n\nDescribe what you want an AI to do, answer a handful of follow-up questions tailored to that task, and Prompt Like A Pro generates a complete, structured prompt you can copy and paste directly into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Midjourney, or any other AI tool.\n\nYes. It's completely free to use, with no signup required and nothing saved. If you find it useful and want to help offset the AI token costs, you can [buy me a coffee](https://buymeacoffee.com/nadumanov).\n\nNo. There's no signup or login. Just describe your task and start generating a prompt right away.\n\nThe prompts are model-agnostic and work well with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Midjourney, and other AI tools, since they're built on prompt-engineering practices shared across the major AI labs rather than tuned to one model.\n\nNo. Your task description, answers, and generated prompt exist only in your browser session and are never saved on our servers.\n\nThere are three kinds of prompt tool. Prompt libraries hand you a pre-written template to fill in. Prompt optimizers and browser extensions rewrite whatever you paste in one pass. Prompt Like A Pro does neither: it asks about your task first, then writes the prompt from scratch based on your answers. That extra step is the difference between a prompt that is longer and a prompt that is right. It also costs nothing and needs no account, which the other interview-style tools generally do.\n\nIt's built for AI power users, content creators, writers, marketers, and anyone who regularly uses AI models and wants better results. It is used for writing assistance, coding help, marketing copy, resume improvement, academic research, AI image generation, email drafting, social media content, and deep research tasks.\n\nBy using Prompt Like A Pro, you agree that it's provided “as is” with no warranties: generated prompts aren't guaranteed to be accurate, complete, or fit for any purpose, so always review them before use. You're responsible for how you use the prompts and for any output you get from pasting them into a third-party AI tool. Nothing you type here is saved or stored on our servers. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Prompt Like A Pro and its creator aren't liable for damages or losses from using this tool. 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