Viral Prompting Trick: Assigning Expert Roles to AI
miniapeur · x · 2026-07-13
A user shared a widely resonant AI prompting habit: when using LLMs like Claude, they often assign an expert persona at the beginning of the prompt, such as "You are a senior web developer with 20 years of experience."
In the replies, others escalated this to "You are a Fields Medal-winning mathematician." This role-playing technique to unlock a model's full potential has become an unspoken rule among AI users.
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