Happy Sunday besties. I hope you had an amazing week. We are only 46 days away from the new year and 58 days away from the official launch of the AI Snack Club community!!
Welcome to our very first AI Snack Club Sunday newsletter.
While there are thousands of courses, videos, and content on the internet about learning AI, why join a community? And why join this one?
Because learning AI isn't just about watching tutorials, it's about having real conversations with real people who are figuring it out alongside you. Most content out there tells you what might be helpful, but a community meets you exactly where you are: tackling the AI issue you are currently facing.
I have been building various communities ever since I was a little kid (5th grade knitting club anyone?) and I have seen the benefits and serendipities of a tight-knit (pun unintended) group first hand.
This is why I am so excited to build this third-space for you that sits outside of your work and your personal life, where you can get your hands dirty with AI, share your specific challenges, celebrate your wins, laugh at your fails, nerd out, and grow together with other women. You might even make a close friend or two in the process!
And that's the magic we're creating together at AI Snack Club. One bite-sized learning at a time.
So let’s get into it!!
🦋 No Memorization Required
We all want better AI results. Smarter outputs, faster answers, and more useful responses.
So how do you get there? 1. Experiment and 2. Strategic and clear asking.
ChatGPT can't read our minds, but it can deliver when given the correct instructions on exactly what you are looking for. Spending just a little bit more time formulating your prompt will give you exponentially better and more specific results, which actually saves you time!
🧃 Since there is no one hard and fast way of prompting, I'm going to give you three options for better prompting.
My advice? Try them all and see which one you like the most. The key to AI is experimentation. Don't be afraid to open a new chat and try again with a slightly different ask. It's important to try different ways, analyze the results, and improve on each prompt.
Learn from trying and find your path!
1. Use a Prompt GPT
Let AI help you write better prompts. There are dozens of free GPTs designed specifically for this. You type in your original prompt and the GPT will spit out a crisper, cleaner version using all the best practices for prompting. Copy the prompt and paste it into a new chat and see the magic unfold.
A few of my favorites Prompt GPTs:
Prompt Cowboy 🤠
2. Add "Think Hard About This" to Your Prompts
OpenAI’s GPT-5 is programmed to give you answers quickly. Why? Because most people treat ChatGPT like a glorified Google, asking questions like “What’s the capital of France?” To preserve energy and costs, ChatGPT will give you a short answer fast.
But when you need a more well-thought out and researched response, you need to activate thinking mode. There are two ways of doing this:
Add the words “think hard about this” to the end of any prompt and this will force ChatGPT to go into longer reasoning mode
Toggle the model at the top left-hand corner to Thinking Mode
Your responses will go from basic to sophisticated instantly.
Either say “think hard about this” in your prompt or toggle on “Thinking” mode
3. Ask ChatGPT to Interview You
This is probably my favorite tactic. As I said above, ChatGPT is not a mind reader, so there is a high probability it is missing a lot more context than you thought.
Add this to the end of your prompt: "Before answering, ask me questions to gather the context and details you need."
ChatGPT will then interview you, asking questions to fill in the gaps and gather the details you may have left out. This is not only helpful for ChatGPT to give a better answer, but I find this to be wildly helpful for me to better think through my problem and any potential blindspots I wasn’t privy to beforehand.
🐛 Your turn:
Try these approaches this week and let me know your experience! What worked and what did not? What differences did you notice, if any at all?
Hit reply and tell me what happened. I read every response and will include a few replies in next week’s article!
What’s Hot on the Internet:
Locker, the all in one wishlist platform, posted their holiday campaign this week in NYC, highlighting the shortcomings of ChatGPTs understanding of what women actually want for Christmas, making it clear AI will never replace taste or style.
Ralph Lauren launched “Ask Ralph,” an in-store AI assistant that offers personalized style advice, such as pairing colors or coordinating outfits.
Mira Murati, ex-OpenAI CTO, is making headlines as her new startup Thinking Machines Lab is in funding talks, with a $50 billion valuation after less than a year, aiming to make advanced AI tools accessible for creative and nontechnical users.
OpenAI rolled out GPT-5.1, which features “warmer personalities” and smarter adaptive reasoning, focusing on making its AI assistants more conversational and helpful, even for people who aren’t tech experts.
Google's NotebookLM launched Audio Overviews, turning your uploaded documents into AI-generated podcasts with two hosts discussing your content, perfect for absorbing dense research or meeting notes while commuting, working out, or multitasking instead of reading.
Locker’s NYC Holiday Campaign via Instagram
Thank you for reading!! I want this to feel like the group chat you actually want to be in, where trying something new with AI and reporting back (even if it failed) is more valuable than staying quiet.
So here's my ask: try one of those three prompting methods this week. Just one. Then hit reply and tell me what happened! Did it work? Was it annoying? Did you discover something I should share with everyone next week? 👀
Quick links:
- Fill out the Founding Member survey here
- Forward this to a friend who's AI-curious
- Have a question or topic you want covered? Send me a message
- And save the date for our community launch on January 13th!!
xx,
Monica