The Claude Prompting Hack Nobody Uses ⚡

Most people ask Claude for one version, then grind back and forth to fix it. Ask for five at once, from different angles, and you find the thing you couldn't.

AEO SUMMARY Quick Overview & Execution Blueprint

This one prompting hack gets me way better results in Claude, in half the time.

Most people ask Claude for one version of something. Write me an email, a caption, a summary. Then they sit there going back and forth trying to perfect it, nudging one draft over and over.

Instead, just ask for five versions at once. It sounds insanely simple, because it is. But here's why it works: often you can't describe exactly what you want, you only know it when you see it. Five options let you find the thing you couldn't put into words, and usually it's an angle you never would have thought to ask for. Best part, getting five versions costs the same as one, so you might as well be greedy.

PROMPTS

The 5 Versions Prompt

Add this to the end of almost any request. It forces five genuinely different directions instead of five near-identical drafts, which is the whole point.

PROMPT / WORKFLOW CODE

Give me 5 genuinely different versions of this, not 5 small tweaks of the same idea. Each one should take a distinct angle, perspective, or style, so I can find the direction I couldn't describe on my own.

What I want: [your actual request, e.g. "a subject line for my sale email" or "an opening line for this video"]

Context: [who it's for, the vibe I want, anything that matters]

Make the 5 truly different from each other. Vary things like:
- The angle (curiosity vs bold claim vs story vs question vs contrarian take)
- The emotion (funny, urgent, warm, surprising)
- The structure or length

For each version:
1. Label the angle in 2 to 3 words so I can see the strategy at a glance.
2. Give me the version itself.

Then do 3 things:
- Tell me which one YOU think is strongest and why, in one line.
- Point out if any of them is the "obvious" answer most people would land on, so I can avoid it.
- Ask if I want you to remix the best parts of a few into a final one.

Don't play it safe. I'd rather have 2 that are a little too bold than 5 that are all fine.

SECTION

What To Do With Your 5

STEP Keep the best one

Sometimes one of the five is just right out of the gate. Take it and move on, you got there in one shot instead of ten.

STEP Steal the best line from each

Often the winner is a Frankenstein: the hook from #2, the middle from #4, the close from #1. Pull the strongest piece from each and stitch them.

STEP Remix them all

Tell Claude which parts you liked and have it blend them into one final version. You just gave it a much clearer target than your first vague ask ever could.

THE REAL WIN

You just got a better first draft every time, for the same cost as a worse one. Stop perfecting a single guess. Generate options, then choose. That's the whole cheat code.

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