The ULTIMATE GPT 5.1 Prompting Guide!

Chad GPT5. 1 is the smartest AI model ever released. The issue is if you don't prompt it correctly, your results will be horrible. After using Chad GPT 5. 1 non-stop since it released, I've come up with a prompting system that will make your results 10 times better. I promise you, if you steal the prompt I'm about to give you, you'll be oneshotting things with AI you never thought possible. Let's get into it. So, I came with this master GPT 5. 1 prompt. I'm about to show you step by step here. We'll go through all six stages. I'll explain the reasoning behind it, why they're so important, and at the end, you can just copy and paste the entire prompt and use it exactly how you want. These all came directly from Open AI. So, a few days ago, they released this prompting guide, which is this massive, massive blog post that will take you hours to read. But what I did is I went through it and I boiled down the six most important points in that blog post and I turned it into this master prompt. So now you can just take it and use it on your own. So let's get right into it. Let's go into the first point here and

Chad GPT5. 1 is the smartest AI model ever released. The issue is if you don't prompt it correctly, your results will be horrible. After using Chad GPT 5. 1 non-stop since it released, I've come up with a prompting system that will make your results 10 times better. I promise you, if you steal the prompt I'm about to give you, you'll be oneshotting things with AI you never thought possible. Let's get into it. So, I came with this master GPT 5. 1 prompt. I'm about to show you step by step here. We'll go through all six stages. I'll explain the reasoning behind it, why they're so important, and at the end, you can just copy and paste the entire prompt and use it exactly how you want. These all came directly from Open AI. So, a few days ago, they released this prompting guide, which is this massive, massive blog post that will take you hours to read. But what I did is I went through it and I boiled down the six most important points in that blog post and I turned it into this master prompt. So now you can just take it and use it on your own. So let's get right into it. Let's go into the first point here and

that is giving the AI a very clear personality. So talking about the verbosity, the directness, the criticality, customization. The main theme with chat GBT 5. 1 is it is the best model ever at following your instructions. The issue is if you don't give it clear instructions, a clear task, a clear personality, it is not going to follow your instructions very well. So you have to be very clear about what it's going to do for you. And if you give it that clear detail, you're going to get the best results ever. So the first thing you want to do is give it a very clear personality. But what does that mean? So the first part of the prompt we're going to go through is personality. I like structuring my prompts like this so it becomes very clear to the AI what we are describing. The first thing we're going to describe is the personality. Chad GPT 5. 1 is the greatest model ever when it comes to following instructions. The issue is if you don't include instructions, it might go off the rails and not talk to you the way you want it to talk to you. So you want to be very clear about the personality. verbosity, how clear it is, how direct it is, things like that. And so here is a personality we are going to use for the example we're going to be doing in this video. The AI is going to help us be an AI app planner. It's going to help us plan apps we're going to build out. Basically be like a product manager. So here is the personality I'm giving it. It is very critical you are very verbose with your planning. Do not just affirm everything I'm saying. So verbosity is actually a very big variable specifically with this model. You want to be very clear about how verbose you want the model to be. If you want to be very verbose, give you tons of detail, you should be clear about it. If you don't want to be very verbose and keep the answer short, be clear about that as well. So the first thing I always go into is how verbose I want to be. I want you to be very verbose with your planning. Do not just affirm everything I'm saying and are critical of my ideas. so I know when I'm wrong. This is another thing. Chad GBT can tend to glaze sometimes, right? It can tend to tell you, "Oh, you're the best. You're doing everything right. Your idea is brilliant. " So, you want to be very clear when you want to not just be affirming everything you're saying, but when you want it to be critical as well. So, we're going to be very clear that we don't want you just affirm everything I'm saying. Be very critical of my ideas, too, and use concise language. So, that might sound like it goes against each other, but we want it to be verbose, but get straight to the point and use concise languaging. If you're anything like me, these instructions I just gave here are probably what I want with every response from Chad GBT. So, here's a little hack for you. If you click in the bottom left and then click on personalization, you can give custom instructions to your AI. They've also included a whole ton of new bass styles and tones you can just use out of the box. But I use these custom instructions. I'll copy and paste them down below so you can just steal them and use them for yourself. I've gotten great results with these custom instructions. But I have be extremely direct and not afraid of offending me. You can tell me when I'm wrong. Tell me when there are better ways to do things. Think from a first principles perspective and use logic and logic only. Disregard my feelings. Our goal is to build revolutionary products that solve challenges and change people's lives. Affirming my feelings and caring about telling me I'm great don't matter nearly as much as giving me the best solution humanly possible. I use 5. 1 primarily for bouncing ideas, coming up with new novel creative ideas. And this is what I found to be the best way to get that. So I'll include that down below. Feel free to copy and paste that and put that into your personality section yourself. But that will really do a great job of shaping the personality because again 5. 1 smartest model ever. You just need to be very clear with your instructions cuz they will follow them to a tea. So we covered the personality shaping the personality of the AI we want to talk to. The next thing we want to do in our

that is giving the AI a very clear personality. So talking about the verbosity, the directness, the criticality, customization. The main theme with chat GBT 5. 1 is it is the best model ever at following your instructions. The issue is if you don't give it clear instructions, a clear task, a clear personality, it is not going to follow your instructions very well. So you have to be very clear about what it's going to do for you. And if you give it that clear detail, you're going to get the best results ever. So the first thing you want to do is give it a very clear personality. But what does that mean? So the first part of the prompt we're going to go through is personality. I like structuring my prompts like this so it becomes very clear to the AI what we are describing. The first thing we're going to describe is the personality. Chad GPT 5. 1 is the greatest model ever when it comes to following instructions. The issue is if you don't include instructions, it might go off the rails and not talk to you the way you want it to talk to you. So you want to be very clear about the personality. verbosity, how clear it is, how direct it is, things like that. And so here is a personality we are going to use for the example we're going to be doing in this video. The AI is going to help us be an AI app planner. It's going to help us plan apps we're going to build out. Basically be like a product manager. So here is the personality I'm giving it. It is very critical you are very verbose with your planning. Do not just affirm everything I'm saying. So verbosity is actually a very big variable specifically with this model. You want to be very clear about how verbose you want the model to be. If you want to be very verbose, give you tons of detail, you should be clear about it. If you don't want to be very verbose and keep the answer short, be clear about that as well. So the first thing I always go into is how verbose I want to be. I want you to be very verbose with your planning. Do not just affirm everything I'm saying and are critical of my ideas. so I know when I'm wrong. This is another thing. Chad GBT can tend to glaze sometimes, right? It can tend to tell you, "Oh, you're the best. You're doing everything right. Your idea is brilliant. " So, you want to be very clear when you want to not just be affirming everything you're saying, but when you want it to be critical as well. So, we're going to be very clear that we don't want you just affirm everything I'm saying. Be very critical of my ideas, too, and use concise language. So, that might sound like it goes against each other, but we want it to be verbose, but get straight to the point and use concise languaging. If you're anything like me, these instructions I just gave here are probably what I want with every response from Chad GBT. So, here's a little hack for you. If you click in the bottom left and then click on personalization, you can give custom instructions to your AI. They've also included a whole ton of new bass styles and tones you can just use out of the box. But I use these custom instructions. I'll copy and paste them down below so you can just steal them and use them for yourself. I've gotten great results with these custom instructions. But I have be extremely direct and not afraid of offending me. You can tell me when I'm wrong. Tell me when there are better ways to do things. Think from a first principles perspective and use logic and logic only. Disregard my feelings. Our goal is to build revolutionary products that solve challenges and change people's lives. Affirming my feelings and caring about telling me I'm great don't matter nearly as much as giving me the best solution humanly possible. I use 5. 1 primarily for bouncing ideas, coming up with new novel creative ideas. And this is what I found to be the best way to get that. So I'll include that down below. Feel free to copy and paste that and put that into your personality section yourself. But that will really do a great job of shaping the personality because again 5. 1 smartest model ever. You just need to be very clear with your instructions cuz they will follow them to a tea. So we covered the personality shaping the personality of the AI we want to talk to. The next thing we want to do in our

prompt is give a very clear role to the AI. So next line down I do roll in all caps. You are an AI app planner that will help me plan an app we will build. So we're giving it a very clear concise role, preferably in just one sentence that tells it the role it wants to take. And the reason why this is so important is this is going to shape the perspective it does its research from when you hit enter. Again, 5. 1 very good at following instructions, but if you don't give it that perspective to use when it's doing research, it might go off the rails and give you a weird perspective. So we give it a role. you are an AI app planner. If you even want to take it up a notch, I found that if you just include the word senior, it makes it even better. So, you are a senior AI app planner. And what that forces it to do when it goes online, does research, looks at its data, it'll look to see how the best of the best do things. So, even including senior is a little hack right there you can use. The

prompt is give a very clear role to the AI. So next line down I do roll in all caps. You are an AI app planner that will help me plan an app we will build. So we're giving it a very clear concise role, preferably in just one sentence that tells it the role it wants to take. And the reason why this is so important is this is going to shape the perspective it does its research from when you hit enter. Again, 5. 1 very good at following instructions, but if you don't give it that perspective to use when it's doing research, it might go off the rails and give you a weird perspective. So we give it a role. you are an AI app planner. If you even want to take it up a notch, I found that if you just include the word senior, it makes it even better. So, you are a senior AI app planner. And what that forces it to do when it goes online, does research, looks at its data, it'll look to see how the best of the best do things. So, even including senior is a little hack right there you can use. The

next part of our master prompt we want to give is the task. So, we wanted to be very clear about what we wanted to do and the actions we wanted to take. So, the task is this. I want to build a vibe coding community app that includes educational content. Help me plan what this experience would be like. So, I'm being very clear about what my idea is and I'm making it very clear what I wanted to do. I wanted to help plan this out. What would make this the best experience possible? most educational and give the most value? This is actually something I literally did over the last couple weeks that got me fantastic results. I'm planning on launching the Vibe Coding Academy in a couple weeks. Link to my newsletter if you want details on that when that comes out. But giving it this very specific task to plan out this entire experience helped get me incredibly good results. You want to keep it simple. One or two sentences again for the task. Be clear about exactly what you want it to do. It's going to be amazing at following instructions. You just need to give the right instructions. This next one is a

next part of our master prompt we want to give is the task. So, we wanted to be very clear about what we wanted to do and the actions we wanted to take. So, the task is this. I want to build a vibe coding community app that includes educational content. Help me plan what this experience would be like. So, I'm being very clear about what my idea is and I'm making it very clear what I wanted to do. I wanted to help plan this out. What would make this the best experience possible? most educational and give the most value? This is actually something I literally did over the last couple weeks that got me fantastic results. I'm planning on launching the Vibe Coding Academy in a couple weeks. Link to my newsletter if you want details on that when that comes out. But giving it this very specific task to plan out this entire experience helped get me incredibly good results. You want to keep it simple. One or two sentences again for the task. Be clear about exactly what you want it to do. It's going to be amazing at following instructions. You just need to give the right instructions. This next one is a

very big one and that is being very clear about the outcome and results you want from this task. In the prompting guide that OpenAI gave on GPT 5. 1, it stresses many times over being very clear about what the outcome you want is, what you want that answer to be in the format of that answer you want from the AI. So this example they give is from a prompt building a coding agent and in it look how clear they are on the prompt they're giving and the outcome they want. They're saying we want the outcome to be a small tiny file change. Do not include certain narration. they go down to very specific detail on the exact outcome they want from this prompt. So, we're going to do that in our prompt. So, here's the outcome. I put in complete product requirements document that shows an outline of our community app. What the full user flow should be like, what the styling onboarding should be like, what the road map should be like, and steps to increase retention and engagement. You want to be very clear about what you want the AI to deliver us in the outcome, the formatting, everything it should be giving to you. If I didn't include this outcome, it could be giving us results that really aren't that helpful. And it's also all right if you don't really know what outcome you want at the end of this. The final step is actually going to be showing you how to figure this out if you don't know how to figure out outcomes or tasks yourself. But if you know your outcome, you need to be very clear about it because again, it's going to be really, really good at following these instructions and giving you exactly what you want. And you might be thinking as we're halfway through this, oh, these are tons of steps. This shouldn't be necessary. A good AI model shouldn't need to do this. This is a waste of my time. No, no. This is a very smart AI model. And it may feel like you're spending a lot more time writing these prompts, but at the end of the day, you're actually saving time because you're going to get way better results the first time around and not need to do follow-up prompts two, three, four times after. So, you really want to make sure you're including all these personality, role, task, and outcome with every prompt you do. These last two

very big one and that is being very clear about the outcome and results you want from this task. In the prompting guide that OpenAI gave on GPT 5. 1, it stresses many times over being very clear about what the outcome you want is, what you want that answer to be in the format of that answer you want from the AI. So this example they give is from a prompt building a coding agent and in it look how clear they are on the prompt they're giving and the outcome they want. They're saying we want the outcome to be a small tiny file change. Do not include certain narration. they go down to very specific detail on the exact outcome they want from this prompt. So, we're going to do that in our prompt. So, here's the outcome. I put in complete product requirements document that shows an outline of our community app. What the full user flow should be like, what the styling onboarding should be like, what the road map should be like, and steps to increase retention and engagement. You want to be very clear about what you want the AI to deliver us in the outcome, the formatting, everything it should be giving to you. If I didn't include this outcome, it could be giving us results that really aren't that helpful. And it's also all right if you don't really know what outcome you want at the end of this. The final step is actually going to be showing you how to figure this out if you don't know how to figure out outcomes or tasks yourself. But if you know your outcome, you need to be very clear about it because again, it's going to be really, really good at following these instructions and giving you exactly what you want. And you might be thinking as we're halfway through this, oh, these are tons of steps. This shouldn't be necessary. A good AI model shouldn't need to do this. This is a waste of my time. No, no. This is a very smart AI model. And it may feel like you're spending a lot more time writing these prompts, but at the end of the day, you're actually saving time because you're going to get way better results the first time around and not need to do follow-up prompts two, three, four times after. So, you really want to make sure you're including all these personality, role, task, and outcome with every prompt you do. These last two

steps in our master GPT 5. 1 prompt are going to be a lot simpler than the other ones. They're basically going to be flags. Flags that we want to turn on for the model. One of these flags we want to turn on are persistence. Right? So in this GPT 5. 1 guide, OpenAI talks a lot about persistence. If you give 5. 1 much longer or more complex tasks, a lot of time it might not go all the way to the end of the solution or the outcome. And there's a reason for this. 5. 1 is incredibly good at being efficient on simple tasks and not using a ton of tokens, but it's also really good at much longer tasks and running for hours and getting you massive solutions. The issue is it's not always perfect at figuring out which one it needs to do. Should it be very efficient and just use a few tokens or should it work for hours and hours? So, if you have a very complex prompt like the one we're building here where we want a full product requirements document, it's important we make sure we're clear to the AI, hey, this is a complex task. We want you to make sure you're persistent all the way to the end of this task. And so, you can see it uses this flag here with solution persistence. Persist until the task is fully handled end to end. So, in our prompt, I'm back here. We have a new section we just put in persistence. You're going to want to use this for any sort of long form prompt where we want a lot of research done or we want a long task. And if it's a simple question like, "Hey, what's the weather outside? " You probably don't need to say persist until you have the answer. But for prompts like this, which if you're anything like me, you're doing this a ton. You're constantly brainstorming, coming up with creative, novel ideas. You want to make sure it persists until the task is fully handled end to end. And they actually have a ton on this in the cookbook. I'll leave the link down below to the cookbook as well, so you can read through this. It's super long, but they talk about this persistence a lot. And the last part of our 5. 1 prompt is using

steps in our master GPT 5. 1 prompt are going to be a lot simpler than the other ones. They're basically going to be flags. Flags that we want to turn on for the model. One of these flags we want to turn on are persistence. Right? So in this GPT 5. 1 guide, OpenAI talks a lot about persistence. If you give 5. 1 much longer or more complex tasks, a lot of time it might not go all the way to the end of the solution or the outcome. And there's a reason for this. 5. 1 is incredibly good at being efficient on simple tasks and not using a ton of tokens, but it's also really good at much longer tasks and running for hours and getting you massive solutions. The issue is it's not always perfect at figuring out which one it needs to do. Should it be very efficient and just use a few tokens or should it work for hours and hours? So, if you have a very complex prompt like the one we're building here where we want a full product requirements document, it's important we make sure we're clear to the AI, hey, this is a complex task. We want you to make sure you're persistent all the way to the end of this task. And so, you can see it uses this flag here with solution persistence. Persist until the task is fully handled end to end. So, in our prompt, I'm back here. We have a new section we just put in persistence. You're going to want to use this for any sort of long form prompt where we want a lot of research done or we want a long task. And if it's a simple question like, "Hey, what's the weather outside? " You probably don't need to say persist until you have the answer. But for prompts like this, which if you're anything like me, you're doing this a ton. You're constantly brainstorming, coming up with creative, novel ideas. You want to make sure it persists until the task is fully handled end to end. And they actually have a ton on this in the cookbook. I'll leave the link down below to the cookbook as well, so you can read through this. It's super long, but they talk about this persistence a lot. And the last part of our 5. 1 prompt is using

metaprompting. There is a ton in this cookbook about metaring. So they have an entire section for metaprompting in here, but basically metaprompting is having the AI reflect on the prompt to improve the prompt. And the reason why we have this entire video on improving the prompting is having a good prompt is one of the most important things you can do. And they say it here, don't take my word for it. Building prompts can be cumbersome, but it's also the highest leverage thing you can do to resolve model behavior issues. Small inclusions can unexpectedly steer the model undesiraably. So, we want to make sure we have a good prompt here. And the way we do that is through metaprompting. But how do you do that? They give a ton of instructions on here, a super long explanation of what you need to be doing. I'll give you a very simple explanation right here. So, at the end of my prompt, before the first time I send it, I'm going to say this. Before we execute this prompt fully, please examine it, understand the roles and outcomes, then let me know how we can improve this prompt to get even better results. And what this is going to do when I hit send is the AI is actually going to read through our entire prompt, understand what it needs to do. its task, its role, what the outcome we want is, and then it's actually going to reflect on it and give us recommendations on how we can improve this prompt so we can get way better results. Again, this might feel like we are doing a lot of extra work and taking time and doing a whole lot of extra steps, but if you're doing something complex, this is actually going to save you a ton of time in the long run because you're not going to need to do a 100 follow-ups as prompt to get the results you want. you're going to get it right the first time. So you can just get extremely good results and move on to your next step. So as you can see here, here are the results of the meta prompt. What's underspecified right now? Who this is for, the platform and scope we're going to be having this community app on, the business model, AI integrations, not giving it enough constraints, and then it tells us exactly what we need to add to improve this prompt and get the results we want. And then boom, if you scroll down even further, we can just copy and paste this prompt. It gave us a better prompt. So, this took maybe 45 seconds for us to get back. But we got a way better prompt that we can now use. Look at all this. It even structures the output for us. It gives us the platform. It makes the task more descriptive. It gives us a descriptive business model. And it even tells us the style it needs to be using. Even the personality is a lot more detailed and descriptive. So, if we take this, we're going to get way better results. So, let's paste that in and actually see what we get. So, I paste that in. and says this is specific enough that we can actually build from it. So it likes this prompt a lot better. Below is the full PRD and then boom, look at all this user personas and jobs to be done. Information architecture, right? It talks about everything we need to do with each lesson in the dashboard challenges, projects, community, AI coach, full user flows. This is way more detailed than what we would have gotten if we just did, hey, can you build me a plan for our AI app? And I promise you the moment I'm done filming this video, I'm going to go through this and improve uh the Vibe Coding Academy. Again, link down below to my newsletter if you want information on the Vibe Coding Academy right when it launches. But this is pretty amazing, these results. This master prompt for 5. 1 is down in the description below. Feel free to copy this, paste it into Notion or Apple Notes or whatever you're using, and then whenever you have a very long complex task with 5. 1, you use that. I don't think you need to use this with every single prompt you give to 5. 1. That'd be way too much work. If you're doing something simple, you don't need to use this master prompt. But if you're doing something complex, which I think you should probably be doing every single day, whether it's bouncing ideas for apps you want to build, whether it's planning your next business line, whether it's planning content, I think you should be doing complex tasks like this every single day. But you don't need to use this for every single prompt. But when you do those complex things, the results you're going to get are a hundred times better. 5. 1 has totally blown me away. It has been the most creative AI model I've ever used. And so when I do things like this, figuring out ideas for businesses and new products, it has been amazing. Let me know down below what's the first task you're going to give 5. 1 with this new master prompt. I want to see how other people are using 5. 1 at the moment because I'm really, really happy with the results I'm getting from it as well. 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metaprompting. There is a ton in this cookbook about metaring. So they have an entire section for metaprompting in here, but basically metaprompting is having the AI reflect on the prompt to improve the prompt. And the reason why we have this entire video on improving the prompting is having a good prompt is one of the most important things you can do. And they say it here, don't take my word for it. Building prompts can be cumbersome, but it's also the highest leverage thing you can do to resolve model behavior issues. Small inclusions can unexpectedly steer the model undesiraably. So, we want to make sure we have a good prompt here. And the way we do that is through metaprompting. But how do you do that? They give a ton of instructions on here, a super long explanation of what you need to be doing. I'll give you a very simple explanation right here. So, at the end of my prompt, before the first time I send it, I'm going to say this. Before we execute this prompt fully, please examine it, understand the roles and outcomes, then let me know how we can improve this prompt to get even better results. And what this is going to do when I hit send is the AI is actually going to read through our entire prompt, understand what it needs to do. its task, its role, what the outcome we want is, and then it's actually going to reflect on it and give us recommendations on how we can improve this prompt so we can get way better results. Again, this might feel like we are doing a lot of extra work and taking time and doing a whole lot of extra steps, but if you're doing something complex, this is actually going to save you a ton of time in the long run because you're not going to need to do a 100 follow-ups as prompt to get the results you want. you're going to get it right the first time. So you can just get extremely good results and move on to your next step. So as you can see here, here are the results of the meta prompt. What's underspecified right now? Who this is for, the platform and scope we're going to be having this community app on, the business model, AI integrations, not giving it enough constraints, and then it tells us exactly what we need to add to improve this prompt and get the results we want. And then boom, if you scroll down even further, we can just copy and paste this prompt. It gave us a better prompt. So, this took maybe 45 seconds for us to get back. But we got a way better prompt that we can now use. Look at all this. It even structures the output for us. It gives us the platform. It makes the task more descriptive. It gives us a descriptive business model. And it even tells us the style it needs to be using. Even the personality is a lot more detailed and descriptive. So, if we take this, we're going to get way better results. So, let's paste that in and actually see what we get. So, I paste that in. and says this is specific enough that we can actually build from it. So it likes this prompt a lot better. Below is the full PRD and then boom, look at all this user personas and jobs to be done. Information architecture, right? It talks about everything we need to do with each lesson in the dashboard challenges, projects, community, AI coach, full user flows. This is way more detailed than what we would have gotten if we just did, hey, can you build me a plan for our AI app? And I promise you the moment I'm done filming this video, I'm going to go through this and improve uh the Vibe Coding Academy. Again, link down below to my newsletter if you want information on the Vibe Coding Academy right when it launches. But this is pretty amazing, these results. This master prompt for 5. 1 is down in the description below. Feel free to copy this, paste it into Notion or Apple Notes or whatever you're using, and then whenever you have a very long complex task with 5. 1, you use that. I don't think you need to use this with every single prompt you give to 5. 1. That'd be way too much work. If you're doing something simple, you don't need to use this master prompt. But if you're doing something complex, which I think you should probably be doing every single day, whether it's bouncing ideas for apps you want to build, whether it's planning your next business line, whether it's planning content, I think you should be doing complex tasks like this every single day. But you don't need to use this for every single prompt. But when you do those complex things, the results you're going to get are a hundred times better. 5. 1 has totally blown me away. It has been the most creative AI model I've ever used. And so when I do things like this, figuring out ideas for businesses and new products, it has been amazing. Let me know down below what's the first task you're going to give 5. 1 with this new master prompt. I want to see how other people are using 5. 1 at the moment because I'm really, really happy with the results I'm getting from it as well. If you learned anything at all, leave a like, subscribe, turn on notifications. It's very important. All I do is drop amazing videos on the latest AI developments the moment they happen.