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Procrastination Nation · Paper No.02 · Prompts for the AI curious

Prompt
Along

Five prompts run through the paper, for whichever AI you already use. Each takes eight to twelve minutes and works better if you answer honestly, which is harder than it sounds. These are the longer, road-tested versions of the boxes in the paper.

Before you tell the robot everything

The Copy button copies only the words you can see, and copying them doesn't run anything. What you type next goes to the AI you chose, not to us. Use your organisation's approved tool for anything about work; for the more personal prompts, use whichever tool you're comfortable with, having checked its privacy and memory settings. Leave out names, other people's details and anything confidential. The prompts don't need them. These are questions about how you work, not therapy. If one lands somewhere heavier than that, stop, and talk to a person you trust.

How these were tested

Every prompt was pasted, exactly as written, into a fresh AI session with no context, no memory and no knowledge of Uncertainty Experts. A tester then answered as a specific kind of reader (a locked-down Copilot user, a daily ChatGPT drafter, a sceptical chief executive, a finance team lead unsure of the rules, a freelancer with no team, a reluctant non-user who answered in one line) until the exchange ended. Ten runs in two rounds. Round one found four real faults, fixed in the versions above: turn-by-turn praise, a false "saved" to memory, the four questions read out in the first person, and the AI supplying the first move instead of asking for it. Tested on Claude, September 2026. Behaviour on ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini will vary a little; if yours does something odd, tell us and we'll fix the wording.

If you're testing for us

Open a fresh chat (Temporary Chat in ChatGPT, a new chat in Copilot). Copy one prompt with the button, paste it, send. Pick a kind of reader from the list above and answer in their voice, short answers, and say "pass" or "I don't know" at least once. Don't help it. When it stops, note the tool, the number of turns, whether it asked one question at a time, whether it suggested or diagnosed before the end, whether it flattered you or went therapist, and whether it closed on a next move and a day. Send us the first and last AI reply. Two prompts per person is plenty.

Small print

These prompts are plain text for you to use in an AI service of your choice. We don't operate that service, don't see what you type into it, and your use of it is covered by its own terms and privacy notice. The prompts are for reflection and experimentation, not medical, legal, financial or employment advice, and AI can be wrong, so keep a human in charge of any decision. Use your organisation's approved tool for anything about work and don't enter confidential information or personal details about other people. This page records ordinary website analytics only. Provided as is. Uncertainty Experts, part of Media Zoo. Last reviewed 11 September 2026.