10 ChatGPT Prompt Templates That Actually Save Time

The role + task + constraint pattern

Every good prompt has three parts: a role for the AI to play, a clear task, and constraints that bound the output.

Example: 'You are a senior SEO consultant. Write a 60-character title tag for an article about email marketing for SaaS. Include the keyword once. No clickbait.'

The few-shot example pattern

Show the AI two or three examples of what you want before asking it to generate one. Output quality jumps dramatically.

This works for titles, descriptions, taglines, ad copy — anything where style and tone matter.

The critique-then-rewrite pattern

Ask the AI to write a first draft. Then in the next message, ask it to critique that draft as if it were a senior editor. Then ask it to rewrite based on its own critique.

Three messages, dramatically better output than asking once.