# My request library

What you learned in module 2, in one place: your settings, your requests that work, and what you learned from the AI's mistakes. Keep this file somewhere you can find it in 10 seconds (a note, a document, your computer). Nothing sensitive in it.

**Date of last update**: ____ / ____ / ________

## 1. What my assistant keeps (lesson 5)

- My tool: ☐ Claude ☐ ChatGPT ☐ other: ______________________
- Memory: ☐ on ☐ paused ☐ off. Last reread on: ____ / ____ / ________
- What I corrected or deleted: ______________________
- For a conversation outside my history (which the provider may still keep for up to 30 days): ☐ incognito (Claude) ☐ temporary chat (ChatGPT)

**My instructions** (copied here, to paste back if I change tools):

```
(paste your instructions here)
```

## 2. Ready-to-copy requests

Replace what is in brackets. They are organized following the method: SAY, DISCUSS, DO, CHECK, NOTE.

**SAY**
1. "I would like to get [what], for [whom or what for]. What you need to know: [context]. Form: [form]. It worked if [criterion 1] and [criterion 2]."
2. "Before starting, ask me the 3 questions you need. One question at a time."

**DISCUSS**
3. "Rephrase my request in 2 sentences, and tell me what you're missing. Don't write the result until I say go."
4. "Give me 2 ways to do it, with their pros and cons, then tell me which one you would choose and why."
5. "What could go wrong with my idea? Be frank: give me 3 risks, and what I should check myself."

**DO**
6. "Go: now do [what], taking into account everything we've said."
7. "Keep everything, but [what to change]."
8. "Give me 3 versions of [what]: one [style 1], one [style 2], one [style 3]."

**CHECK**
9. "Search the internet: where does this information come from? Give me the exact link to the page and its date, and tell me if you did not open it."
10. "Reread your answer using my success criteria, and tell me honestly what isn't met."
11. "What did you assume without me telling you?"
12. "Reread this text the way [the person who will read it] would: what could bother them?"

**NOTE**
13. "Summarize in 5 lines what we decided, so that I can start again in a new conversation."
14. "Turn this request, which worked well, into a reusable template: put in [brackets] what changes from one time to the next, and keep the rest word for word."

**At any time**
15. "Explain it more simply, with an example." or "Go faster, I understood."
16. "What have you remembered about me?"

## 3. My 5 tested templates

A template = a request that worked, where what changes is in [brackets]. It counts when it has worked on **two different needs**.

### Template 1: (short title)
- When I use it: ______________________
```
(paste your template here, with its [brackets])
```
- Tested on: 1. ______________________ (rating out of 5: __) · 2. ______________________ (rating out of 5: __)

### Template 2: (short title)
- When I use it: ______________________
```
(your template)
```
- Tested on: 1. ______________________ (rating out of 5: __) · 2. ______________________ (rating out of 5: __)

### Template 3: (short title)
- When I use it: ______________________
```
(your template)
```
- Tested on: 1. ______________________ (rating out of 5: __) · 2. ______________________ (rating out of 5: __)

### Template 4: (short title)
- When I use it: ______________________
```
(your template)
```
- Tested on: 1. ______________________ (rating out of 5: __) · 2. ______________________ (rating out of 5: __)

### Template 5: (short title)
- When I use it: ______________________
```
(your template)
```
- Tested on: 1. ______________________ (rating out of 5: __) · 2. ______________________ (rating out of 5: __)

## 4. The day the AI got it wrong (lessons 4 and 6)

- **What I asked**: ______________________
- **What it answered**: ______________________
- **How I spotted it** (the source I opened, the detail that was off): ______________________
- **What was true, and where I read it**: ______________________
- **What I do now**: ______________________

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