50 Ways to Use ChatGPT — The New Generation

A browsable prompt library for the GPT-5 / agent-mode / Sora 2 era. Every prompt has a copy button — grab one, change the thing that matters to you, paste it in.

Sources: my own workflows (recast for ChatGPT) · OpenAI's own marketing & docs · viral uses from X, YouTube, TikTok/IG, Reddit & blogs (each credited). Built July 2026.

SHOW= a way I already use it — the finished result exists, so I just show it and read the prompt
PROMPT= a prompt worth running yourself — copy it, tweak one thing, go
CLIP= how someone else used it — their result, credited, with the exact prompt

How this is built (three ways to show each one)

This library covers a huge range so anyone finds something useful. It is organized as 7 category acts plus a wildcard closer. Each entry is tagged with how I show it in the video:

  1. SHOW items (9 of them, all yours): the result already exists — pull it up, say the prompt, move on. Zero dead air.
  2. PROMPT items: hit enter on camera. Front-load the fast ones; for agent/Sora runs, cut to the result.
  3. CLIP items (8): drop their clip or a screenshot, credit the creator on screen, show the exact prompt. This is where you cover the most ground fastest.

Act 1 · Business & work — 7

Open here — business/ROI use-cases hook the widest audience.

01Turn a meeting transcript into a working AI-agent specSHOW · mine
My transcript→agent pipeline, recast for ChatGPT. The spec already exists, so I show it while reading the prompt.
My workflow (RAPP pipeline), recast for ChatGPT
Here's a meeting transcript. Extract every distinct task the person does manually, then design an AI agent for the single highest-value one. Give it: a name, a one-paragraph system prompt, the tools/data it would need, and 3 example input→output pairs. Output it as a clean spec I could hand to a developer.

[PASTE TRANSCRIPT]
02Rough notes → a styled executive slide deckSHOW · mine
My deck-building workflow. I show a polished deck I've built while reading the prompt.
My workflow (styled decks), recast for ChatGPT
Turn these rough notes into a 10-slide executive presentation. One idea per slide, a strong title slide, and a clear closing ask. Give me the slide-by-slide outline with a headline, 3 bullets, and speaker notes for each. Keep the language tight and senior.

NOTES:
[PASTE NOTES]
03Find the pattern across 12 customer conversationsSHOW · mine
My cross-customer report workflow, recast. I show the ranked-table output I already have.
My workflow (cross-customer analysis), recast for ChatGPT
I'll paste notes from several customer conversations. Find the needs/use-cases that come up across MORE THAN ONE customer, rank them by how often they appear and their business value, and write a one-page report: a ranked table (use-case, # of customers, value, effort) plus a recommendation on which one to build first and why.

[PASTE NOTES FROM EACH CONVERSATION]
04An analyst-grade market report from one prompt (Deep Research)PROMPT
OpenAI's own deep-research demo prompt — cited, tabular, multi-country. Kick it off, cut to the finished report.
Help me find iOS and Android adoption rates, % who want to learn another language, and change in mobile penetration, over the past 10 years, for the top 10 developed and top 10 developing countries by GDP. Lay this out in a table with stats in separate columns, and include recommendations on which markets to target for a new iOS translation app, focusing on markets ChatGPT is currently active in.
05One prompt, a whole startup — "it just does stuff"CLIP
Ethan Mollick's GPT-5 demo: one sentence returned ideas PLUS landing pages, LinkedIn copy, projections, and files unprompted. Show his post, run it yourself as the payoff.
Ethan Mollick — One Useful Thing
Generate 10 startup ideas for a former business-school entrepreneurship professor to launch, pick the best according to some rubric, figure out what I need to do to win, and do it.
06Red-team your own idea before the world doesPROMPT
The antidote to AI sycophancy — make it attack your idea. Great tension on camera.
r/PromptEngineering (via AI Tool Discovery)
Red team this idea: [PASTE YOUR IDEA]. What's wrong with it? Give me the weaknesses, risks, and failure modes — be specific, rank them by severity, and for the top 3 tell me exactly what would have to be true for it to fail.
07A full early-retirement plan in ~20 minutes (Agent)CLIP
@rowancheung set ChatGPT Agent loose on its own virtual computer to research tax law and model scenarios hands-off. Show his thread; optionally start your own and time-lapse it.
@rowancheung — X
Build me a complete early-retirement plan. Research the tax laws for my location, factor in my current income, savings rate, and target retirement age, model a few withdrawal scenarios, and give me a step-by-step plan with a projected timeline and the accounts to draw down in order. Use your virtual computer to do the research and show your work.

Act 2 · Productivity & prompting — 8

The "steal my prompt" act — these get saved and reused, which drives comments and shares.

08Turn any source into an interlinked second-brain noteSHOW · mine
My second-brain workflow, recast. I show my actual linked notes.
My workflow (second brain), recast for ChatGPT
Act as my second brain. I'll paste a source (article, transcript, or doc). Turn it into one note: a 5-bullet summary, the key entities/people it mentions, the decisions or facts worth keeping, and a list of related topics written as [[wikilinks]]. Keep it under 150 lines and end by telling me which topics this connects to.

[PASTE SOURCE]
09Audit how you work → the 3 things to automateSHOW · mine
My usage-audit workflow, recast. I show the audit I ran on my own usage.
My workflow (usage audit), recast for ChatGPT
Here's a log of how I've been working lately. Analyze my patterns: what I repeat by hand, where I waste time, and the top 3 things I should turn into a saved template, a Custom GPT, or a scheduled task. Show the evidence for each, and for the #1 pick, write the template/prompt I'd reuse.

[PASTE LOG / DESCRIBE YOUR WEEK]
10The 95%-confidence clarifying-questions promptPROMPT
The most-upvoted reliability prompt on Reddit — it interviews YOU before answering, killing hallucinated assumptions. Add it to any request.
r/ChatGPT (via AI Tool Discovery)
Before responding, ask me any clarifying questions until you are 95% confident you can complete this task successfully. Use only verifiable, credible sources. Do not speculate.
11Lyra — the prompt that rewrites your promptsPROMPT
Paste once, reuse forever: it interviews you and hands back a precision prompt. 6M+ views across Reddit + X.
r/ChatGPT, amplified by @minchoi
You are Lyra, a master-level AI prompt-optimization specialist. Transform my rough input into a precision-crafted prompt using the 4-D method: 1) DECONSTRUCT — extract core intent, entities, and context; 2) DIAGNOSE — audit for clarity gaps and ambiguity; 3) DEVELOP — pick techniques (role assignment, chain-of-thought, few-shot) and assign an expert role; 4) DELIVER — output the optimized prompt in a code block. Ask me 2–3 clarifying questions first, then deliver. Start by asking what I'm trying to get the AI to do.
12The Perfection Loop — make it grade itself to 10/10PROMPT
Jeff Su's suffix that forces an internal rubric + self-iteration so you only see the polished output. Works on anything.
Jeff Su — GPT-5 prompting
Before you respond, create an internal rubric for what defines a "world-class" answer to my request. Then internally iterate on your work until it scores 10/10 against that rubric, and show me only the final, perfect output.
13Mock interview from your real resume + JD (XML sandwich)PROMPT
Jeff Su's technique — XML tags make the model take structured input seriously. Demoed as a hiring-manager grilling.
Jeff Su — YouTube
<TASK>
Act as the hiring manager. Based on my resume and the job description, ask me the three most challenging behavioral interview questions I'm likely to face, one at a time, and push back on weak answers.
</TASK>
<MY_RESUME>
[PASTE RESUME]
</MY_RESUME>
<JOB_DESCRIPTION>
[PASTE JOB DESCRIPTION]
</JOB_DESCRIPTION>
14A daily briefing that comes to you (Scheduled Task)PROMPT
Reframes ChatGPT from a thing you open to a thing that arrives. Set it live on camera — the confirmation is the payoff.
OpenAI Tasks / Tom's Guide
Every weekday at 6:30am, send me a briefing: the top 3 headlines in my industry, my local weather, one motivational quote, and a 3-item focus list based on what we discussed the day before. Keep it under 150 words.
15The subscription audit that pays for ChatGPTPROMPT
A monthly scheduled task that confronts you with your recurring charges. The most concrete money-saver — great relatable beat.
MakeUseOf — small automations
This is my monthly financial check-in. Here are my current recurring subscriptions: [Netflix, Spotify, gym, Adobe, Amazon Prime, …]. Once a month, present this list and ask me: "Which of these have you not used in the last 30 days?" Then total up what I could cancel.

Act 3 · Creativity & content — 9

The most screenshot-able act. Heavy on image/video — visually carries the video's midpoint.

16Notes → a 90-second walkthrough video scriptSHOW · mine
Ties to my walkthrough-producer work. I show a script I've generated (or the RAPP Video walkthrough) as the artifact.
My workflow (walkthrough producer), recast for ChatGPT
I'll paste a product's step-by-step guide. Write a tight 90-second walkthrough video script: an intro title card, one on-screen caption (under 12 words) plus one spoken VO line per step, and an outro card with a call to action. Number the steps and mark [CAPTION] vs [VO] on each.

[PASTE GUIDE]
17Build my "digital twin" persona promptSHOW · mine
My digital-twin work, recast. I show the twin persona I already built, then run this to make a fresh one live.
My workflow (digital twin), recast for ChatGPT
Based on everything you know about me, write a "digital twin" system prompt that lets another AI respond the way I would — my communication style, my priorities, my pet peeves, and how I make decisions. Write it in second person ("You are…") so I can paste it into a fresh chat, and end with 3 example questions and how twin-me would answer them.
18Sora 2 Cameo — cast yourself in any videoPROMPT
Record a short verification clip once, then drop your cameo into any scene with matched voice + physics. The signature video trend of the era.
Matt Wolfe / Fello AI — Sora 2 breakdown
My Cameo vlogging on a foggy boardwalk at sunrise, handheld close-up, gentle ambient waves, natural morning light, 10 seconds.
19Sora 2 "bodycam" — Super Mario gets pulled overCLIP
The breakout Sora 2 genre — fake bodycam of cartoon characters. Show creators' clips (huge laugh), then run your own variant.
Ror_Fly / gnrlyxyz (via JZ Creates)
Realistic body-cam footage of a police officer pulling over Super Mario in his go-kart on a suburban street at night. Handheld shake, night-vision tint, radio chatter.
20Prompt Sora like a cinematographer (OpenAI's shot-list)PROMPT
OpenAI's own pro-grade structured prompt — lens, filtration, grade, sound, shot timing. Shows the ceiling of control. Read a few lines on camera, show the output.
Primary Target & Visuals: a dragon slicing past serrated ice spires, wingtip vortices peeling spindrift; glacier falling away to a cobalt fjord; expression reads predatory calm. Format & Look: 5.0s; 4K; 180° shutter; large-format sensor emulation; very fine grain. Lenses & Filtration: 50mm spherical on a gyro-stabilized aerial platform, parallel tracking with slight inward arc; Black Pro-Mist 1/8; light circular polarizer. Grade: ice-white highlights with cool roll-off; steel-blue mids; slate/teal shadows; warm amber rim on the dragon. Lighting: late-afternoon low sun cross-key; katabatic wind lofting spindrift. Sound: high-air wind shear, wing-membrane thunder each downstroke, ice tick/creak, distant calving boom; no score. Shot (0.0–5.0s): camera paces the dragon threading a corridor of spires, eases closer as scales read and the amber rim flares, then it banks toward the fjord.
21Turn yourself into a boxed action figurePROMPT
The image trend that ate every feed. One selfie → you, blister-packed with accessories. Everyone watching can do it.
Forbes / The Tab — trend explainer
Use this photo of me to create an action figure of myself in a blister pack, in the style of a premium collectible toy. The figure stands upright with a relaxed, friendly smile. The header reads "[YOUR NAME]" in large letters with the subheading "[TAGLINE]" below. In side compartments, add accessories: [YOUR HOBBY ITEMS].
22Studio Ghibli-ify any photoPROMPT
The trend that "melted OpenAI's GPUs" and pushed them past 150M weekly users. The template every later image trend copied.
Redraw this photo in the style of a hand-painted Studio Ghibli film — soft painted backgrounds, warm light, gentle linework — while keeping the people, poses, and composition recognizable.
23One selfie → a 12-expression sticker sheetPROMPT
2026's hottest photo trend per TikTok's own trending page. Consistent face across a grid of reactions.
@mariellepaulvlogs / @atengsolitana (TikTok trending)
Convert my photo into a set of 12 chibi stickers in a 4x3 grid, keeping my face consistent in every one. Expressions: laughing, angry, crying, sulking, thinking, sleepy, blowing a kiss, winking, surprised, love-struck, thumbs-up, waving. Clean simple background, thin white sticker border.
24"Then vs Now" — sit across from your childhood selfPROMPT
Nostalgia trend across TikTok/IG/Pinterest. Upload a childhood photo + a current one → one studio portrait of both selves meeting.
Using these two photos, create a photorealistic studio portrait of the same person as a child and as an adult sitting across a small round wooden table from each other. Above the child write "[CHILDHOOD YEAR]", above the adult write "2026". Warm cinematic studio lighting, shallow depth of field.

Act 4 · Development & building — 5

"You don't need to code anymore" — the act that converts skeptics. Screen-record the working results.

25A single-file app you double-click to runSHOW · mine
My signature artifact shape. I show a self-contained HTML tool I've shipped while reading the prompt.
My workflow (single-file HTML), recast for ChatGPT
Build me a single, self-contained HTML file (no dependencies, no build step — it must work by double-clicking) that is a clean pricing calculator: inputs for seats, plan tier, and annual/monthly, live total, and a dark modern design. Give me the entire file in one code block.
26A playable 3D city-builder — without seeing codeCLIP
Mollick's GPT-5 demo: one casual prompt → a working 3D brutalist builder with driving cars and a save system. Show his; run your own, screen-record it.
Ethan Mollick — One Useful Thing
Make a procedural brutalist building creator where I can drag and edit buildings in cool ways — they should look like actual buildings. Think hard.
27Canvas mini-app: a live mortgage calculatorPROMPT
Canvas builds functional, shareable mini-apps with no code. Great on-screen payoff for a non-technical audience.
Skill Leap AI — hidden features
In Canvas, build me a working mortgage calculator web app: sliders for price, down payment, interest rate, and term; show the monthly payment and total interest live as I drag; make it clean enough to share.
28Ship a live, shareable web app (ChatGPT Sites)PROMPT
Sites builds an interactive dashboard/tracker inside ChatGPT and publishes it to a public URL — and keeps updating it. Show the published link.
OpenAI — ChatGPT Work
Build me an interactive Site: a launch hub for our product release. Include a countdown, a task tracker grouped by owner, our launch calendar, and a status feed I can update by telling you what changed. Use the attached plan for the real dates and owners, let me preview it, then publish it to a URL I can share.
29It found a real zero-day in the Linux kernelCLIP
Researcher Sean Heelan fed o3 ~12k lines of kernel SMB code; it found a genuine unknown vuln — filed as CVE-2025-37899, the first public zero-day credited to an LLM. Show the writeup. (Frame responsibly — this is the "it's genuinely capable" beat.)
Sean Heelan / Simon Willison
You are a world-class vulnerability researcher. Below is the implementation of SMB command handlers from the Linux kernel's ksmbd module. Analyze it specifically for use-after-free bugs, focusing on concurrency: cases where one thread frees an object while another is still using it. Walk through the handlers, explain the exact race, and show the code path that triggers it.

[PASTE CODE]

Act 5 · Learning & skills — 6

Broad appeal — students, career-switchers, hobbyists. The "$300/hr tutor for free" framing.

30Study Mode: a tutor that refuses to just give the answerPROMPT
A real student's verbatim prompt OpenAI published — builds a phased curriculum and Socratic-checks you. Show it generating the roadmap.
I want to learn Game Theory — the broad spectrum the field covers, plus the ways it'd be useful in my daily life. Follow my curiosity, but mostly you'll be teaching me, keeping a high-level plan to iterate through so I cover the full scope. I'll ask questions when curious, but be dead-set on quickly educating me.
31A custom 6-month curriculum for any skillPROMPT
Flips ChatGPT from answer-machine to proactive tutor — it interviews you, then scaffolds a month-by-month plan. Tom's Guide called it "incredible."
You are an expert educator specializing in [SUBJECT]. Create a 6-month personalized learning plan to help me get good at [SKILL]. My goal is [GOAL] and I have [X] hours/week. Before you start, ask me what I already know and how I learn best. Then break it into stages with weekly milestones, practice exercises, and checkpoints to test my understanding.
32The Socratic tutor that quizzes as it teachesPROMPT
Assess-first, then teach — recreates Study Mode's style anywhere. Pairs with #30.
BitBiasedAI — YouTube
Teach me [TOPIC] using the Socratic method and first-principles thinking. First ask me questions to gauge my current level, then build a step-by-step learning plan. As we go, quiz me to test my understanding — and don't just hand me answers, guide me to them.
33Fact-check anything against primary sources onlyPROMPT
Jeff Su's anti-hallucination prompt — constrains Search to primary sources and forces an "I cannot verify this" fallback. The misinformation-era beat.
Fact-check the following statement and tell me if it's true, false, or a deliberate lie. Use only primary news sources and moderated information aggregators. If you cannot verify something directly, say "I cannot verify this."

STATEMENT: [PASTE]
34Equations you can grab and dragPROMPT
Asking about 70+ math/science topics spawns an interactive module in-chat — sliders that redraw graphs live. OpenAI's verbatim "try asking" example. Very filmable.
Help me understand the Pythagorean theorem.
35Turn your notes into a practice examPROMPT
StudyTok staple, huge in nursing school — paste your notes, get exam-style questions with explanations. "5 hours of studying in 30 minutes."
StudyTok / nursing TikTok (discover)
Using my notes below, make me a 20-question practice exam in the style of my real test, including a few "select all that apply" questions. Don't show answers until I've responded to each one — then explain why every wrong option is wrong.

NOTES:
[PASTE NOTES]

Act 6 · Life & personal — 8

The emotional-payoff act. Memory tricks are uniquely "about you," so every viewer wants to try them — huge for shares.

36Memory roast — 10 brutal truths about mePROMPT
300k+ participations, celebrity pile-ons. ChatGPT mines everything it remembers and serves uncomfortable accuracy. Show your real result live — the reaction is the content.
Based on everything you know about me from our conversations, tell me 10 brutal truths about myself that I probably don't want to hear. Be completely honest, don't sugarcoat anything, and tell me exactly what's holding me back.
37"Tell me one thing about myself I don't know"PROMPT
The one-liner Sam Altman quote-tweeted "love this" — 4M+ views. The definitive memory-era party trick.
Tom Morgan on X (via TechRadar)
From all of our interactions, what is one thing you can tell me about myself that I may not know about myself?
38Negotiate down a hospital billCLIP
A viral thread: an itemized $195k bill fed to AI flagged duplicate charges and 500–2,300% markups, then drafted a dispute letter. The hospital settled at $33k. Show the story; frame as "AI gives patients leverage."
@nthmonkey via AOL/Fortune
Here is an itemized hospital bill (attached). Act as a medical billing advocate. Line by line, flag: duplicate charges, services that don't match the care I received, unbundled charges that should be bundled, and anything priced far above the Medicare reimbursement rate. Then draft a firm, formal dispute letter to the billing department citing each specific error and requesting an itemized correction.
39The second opinion that caught what doctors missedCLIP
A widely-shared story: symptoms described to ChatGPT suggested Hashimoto's, prompting a scan that found cancer early. Show it with the honest "not a doctor — it makes you a better-informed patient" caveat on screen.
Fox News / Interesting Engineering
I have these symptoms: [LIST]. My blood test for [condition] came back negative but the symptoms persist. What conditions can mimic this that my doctors might be overlooking, and what specific tests should I ask for? You're not a doctor — help me be a better-informed patient and know what questions to bring to one.
40A free interior designer for any roomPROMPT
"This is crazypants" — photo of your room → redesigned versions, then a shopping list + budget to actually recreate it. Instantly useful.
Here's a photo of my room. Redesign it to look 10x better while keeping the layout and my existing furniture, and show me the new version. Then give me a shopping list with a realistic budget so I can actually recreate the look.
41Photo-diagnose and fix almost anythingPROMPT
Real stories: a dashboard photo revealed a speed limiter (no tow truck); mower photos found a 65¢ part instead of a $175 shop bill. The "it pays for itself" beat.
TechRadar + reader stories
Here are photos of my [appliance/car/tool] and the symptoms: [DESCRIBE]. Diagnose the most likely cause, walk me through checking it step by step, and tell me the exact replacement part to buy and roughly what it costs.
42A week of meals for $100PROMPT
7.6M-view TikTok hack: one sentence → a store-specific shopping list + meal plan under a hard budget. Lands hard amid food-price anxiety.
Make me a grocery list for [store] with a budget of $100 that provides meals for five days for a family of four. Group it by aisle, and include a simple meal plan showing which items go to which meal.
43Text-message forensics — read the attachment stylePROMPT
2M+ views: feed screenshots of a conversation, get a brutally honest read on communication patterns and red flags. Spawned a whole genre.
Aubrie Sellers via Newsweek
Here are screenshots of a text conversation. Analyze both people's attachment styles and communication patterns. Be unbiased and brutally honest — flag any red flags, manipulation, or avoidant behavior, and tell me who's putting in more effort.

Act 7 · Agentic & the browser — 5

The "it DOES things now" act — the current frontier. Best B-roll in the video: watching the cursor move on its own. Accuracy note: the standalone Atlas browser retires Aug 9, 2026 — these capabilities now live in the ChatGPT desktop app's built-in browser and the Chrome sidebar. Say "agent mode / the ChatGPT browser," not "Atlas," to keep it evergreen.

44Agent mode does your grocery run from a recipePROMPT
OpenAI's flagship agent demo — hand it a recipe, it opens Instacart and fills the cart itself. The clearest "it does things instead of saying things" moment. Screen-record the agent driving.
OpenAI — ChatGPT agent
Here's a recipe. Scale it for 8 people, then open Instacart, pick my usual store, and add every ingredient I don't already have to the cart. Stop before checkout so I can review.
45Book the whole trip, not just the itineraryPROMPT
Top use case in multiple agent-mode videos — preferences + budget in, flights/hotels/dining compared and teed up to checkout. Great long-run B-roll.
Charlie Chang / Wisdom Speaks — YouTube
Plan a 5-day trip to Tokyo for two, total budget $3,500, first week of November. Compare flights from LAX and hotels near Shibuya, build a day-by-day itinerary with restaurants we can actually book, then take me to the checkout pages for the best flight + hotel combo.
46Auto-fill job applications from your resumeCLIP
Attach your resume once; the ChatGPT browser populates application forms across sites — even in other languages. Show the tested demo; optionally run one form yourself.
The Creators AI — 15 real use cases
Fill out this application form using the data from the resume I'll attach. Match each field carefully, and pause before submitting so I can check it.
47Hunt promo codes and apply them at checkoutPROMPT
The demo that makes non-AI people gasp — at checkout, it finds working codes and applies the best one. Quick, high-delight.
Skill Leap AI — 21 Atlas tips
I'm at checkout on this site. Find any working promo or discount codes for this store, try them, and apply the best one before I pay.
48Competitor research → an editable slide deckPROMPT
Agent browses multiple sources and hands back a fully editable deck — OpenAI's flagship work demo. Great B-roll of it clicking through sites on its own.
OpenAI / Lead with AI
Research our top 3 competitors in the [industry] market. Create a 5-slide presentation summarizing their key products, pricing, and recent news. Make the presentation fully editable.

Wildcard closer — 2

Two big finishers — one jaw-drop, one that teaches responsible use and sends viewers off smarter.

49GeoGuessr — reverse-locate almost any photoPROMPT
Feed it a street corner, a menu, a selfie — it crops, zooms, and reasons to the city, often the exact venue. Jaw-dropping on camera. Build in the privacy beat: show why you should be careful what you post. Part party trick, part warning.
TechCrunch / Simon Willison
Let's play GeoGuessr. Guess where this photo was taken. Reason through every visual clue — vegetation, signage, road markings, architecture, license plates, language, light — then give your top 3 candidate locations with a confidence level for each.
50The expert-panel pre-mortem (know your blind spots)SHOW · mine
My blindspot method, recast — and the perfect closer: it models using AI to check yourself, not just cheer you on. I show a real blindspot output, then run it live on a decision.
My workflow (blindspot), recast for ChatGPT
I'm about to [launch X / commit to this plan]: [DESCRIBE IT]. Act as a panel of experts from 5 different disciplines (e.g. security, legal, finance, ops, a skeptical customer). Each one names the single biggest thing I'm missing that someone in their field would immediately catch. Then rank every finding by risk and give me a "fix before you launch" shortlist.