7 battle-tested prompts to build your own AI assistant
A curated selection from the OpenClaw prompt library — optimized for beginners and anyone looking for a solid prompt to solve a real problem. Each entry includes the recommended model, where to run it, and the exact prompt to paste in.
Why this is #1: Everyone has a calendar and email. A consolidated morning summary is the single most immediately useful AI automation you can build. Even a simplified version teaches you how AI can synthesize multiple data sources into something actionable.
Build me a daily briefing system. Every morning at 7am, I want a single consolidated message that includes: 1. Today's calendar — not just "meeting with Greg at 2pm" but full context: who Greg is, what company he's with, what we discussed last time, and any relevant history. Pull attendee info from my email history and contacts. 2. Yesterday's key metrics — if I have content on YouTube, Instagram, or X/Twitter, show views, engagement, and any outliers worth noting. 3. Pending action items — what's overdue, what's due today, and what I'm still waiting on from other people. Cross-reference email threads related to today's meetings. 4. Optional background research on important meeting participants — if I have a big meeting, give me a quick brief on who I'm meeting with. Deliver it as a single message. Keep urgent emails, CRM notifications, and follow-ups in their own separate sections so nothing gets buried. The tone should be concise and scannable — I want to read this in under 2 minutes.
Why this matters: Email overload is universal. Having AI watch your inbox and only ping you when something truly needs attention saves hours of anxiety-checking.
Build an urgent email detection system that scans my inbox for important emails every 30 minutes during waking hours. Use AI classification to determine urgency based on: sender importance, time-sensitivity of the content, whether a response is expected, and whether money or deadlines are involved. Include a feedback learning loop: when I tell you an email was or wasn't actually urgent, adjust your classification over time. Learn my patterns. Time-gate alerts so I only get notified during reasonable hours — weekdays 5-9pm, weekends 7am-9pm. No middle-of-the-night pings for non-emergencies. Pre-filter known noise: marketing emails, newsletters, automated notifications, and promotional senders should never even be classified. For each urgent email, give me: who it's from, a one-line summary of what they need, and why it's urgent. Deliver alerts to a dedicated channel (Telegram topic, Slack channel, or text message — whatever I have set up).
Why this matters: Everyone using AI to write has encountered the "sounds like AI" problem. This prompt is approachable because the input and output are just text — no APIs or databases required.
You are a writing humanizer. Your job is to take AI-generated text and strip every detectable AI pattern from it so it reads like a real human wrote it. Specifically remove or rework: - Stock phrases: "it's worth noting," "at the end of the day," "in today's landscape," "dive into," "navigate," "leverage," "streamline," "holistic" - Performed authenticity: "I'll be honest," "Let me be real," "Here's the thing" - The Rule of Three: AI loves listing exactly three things. Vary it — sometimes two, sometimes four, sometimes one strong point - Excessive em dashes — AI overuses them as a crutch for sentence variety - Hedging stacks: "It's important to consider that perhaps one might want to..." Just say the thing - Formulaic structure: [Hook] → [Context] → [Three points] → [Inspiring conclusion] is the AI writing skeleton. Break it - Overly smooth transitions: "Moreover," "Furthermore," "Additionally" in sequence - False balance: AI always presents "on the other hand" even when one side is clearly right Preserve the original meaning, facts, and intent. The goal is not to dumb it down — it's to make it sound like a specific human with opinions wrote it, not a language model trying to sound helpful. When I paste text, return the humanized version. No commentary unless I ask for it.
Why this matters: Personal, tangible, and low-stakes — a perfect beginner project. Logging meals and symptoms, then having AI spot correlations, is genuinely useful and teaches structured data collection.
Build a food and symptom tracking journal. I want to log what I eat and how I feel, then have you analyze patterns over time. Four entry types: - Food: what I ate, approximate time, and any notes (e.g., "large portion," "homemade") - Drink: what I drank, including water, coffee, alcohol - Symptom: what I'm feeling + severity on a 1-5 scale (1 = barely noticeable, 5 = severe). Examples: bloating, headache, fatigue, brain fog, joint pain, heartburn - Note: anything else relevant — sleep quality, stress level, exercise, medication changes Send me 3x daily reminders at 8am, 1pm, and 7pm to log meals and how I'm feeling. Store everything organized by date. Once I have 2+ weeks of data, start running weekly analysis: - Correlate specific foods with symptoms (e.g., "dairy appears within 4 hours of your bloating episodes 70% of the time") - Track symptom frequency and severity trends - Flag any new patterns or notable changes - Suggest potential trigger foods to test eliminating Keep the logging friction as low as possible — I should be able to type "lunch: turkey sandwich, apple, water" and have you parse it correctly without a rigid format.
Why this matters: This isn't a system to build — it's the meta-knowledge that makes everything else on this list work better. These insights are genuinely valuable and not widely known.
Create a practical prompt engineering guide based on the latest model behaviors (Claude 4.x / GPT-5.x / Gemini 3.x era). Focus on discoveries that contradict older prompting advice. Specifically cover: 1. Why ALL-CAPS urgency markers (CRITICAL, MUST, NEVER, ALWAYS) now cause overtriggering in newer models. They were useful in GPT-3 days but modern models are too compliant — caps makes them overly rigid and paranoid. 2. Why explaining the REASON behind a rule works better than just stating the rule. "Don't include personal opinions because this is a factual report" beats "NEVER include personal opinions." The model generalizes from explanations. 3. Why you should only show examples of desired behavior, never anti-patterns. Models sometimes fixate on the anti-pattern and start reproducing it. Show what good looks like, not what bad looks like. 4. Why "if in doubt, use this tool" instructions cause tools to trigger on nearly every message. Be specific about WHEN to use tools, not permissive. 5. Why prompt formatting should match your desired output formatting. If you want prose, write your prompt in prose. If you want structured data, structure your prompt. 6. The difference between system prompts, user prompts, and few-shot examples — and when each is most effective. Write this as a practical reference I can come back to, not an academic paper. Include before/after examples for each principle.
Why this matters: The gap between "good meeting" and "things actually get done" is almost entirely about capturing and tracking action items. This closes that gap automatically.
Create a system that processes meeting transcripts and extracts actionable outcomes.
When I give you a meeting transcript:
1. Match attendees to known contacts (I'll provide context or you can reference
my CRM if connected)
2. Extract every action item with:
- What needs to be done (clear, specific description)
- Who owns it (me vs. someone else)
- Deadline if mentioned, or "no deadline stated"
- Priority: high (explicitly committed to), medium (agreed but informal),
low (suggested but not committed)
3. Separate items into:
- MY action items (things I need to do)
- THEIR action items (things I'm waiting on from others — but exclude
internal team members, only track external contacts)
- DECISIONS MADE (important things agreed on, even if no action needed)
4. Send me an approval queue — show each extracted item and let me approve,
reject, or edit before it becomes a real task
5. Run a completion check 3x daily (8am, 12pm, 4pm) showing:
- What's overdue
- What's pending for today
- What I'm waiting on from others
6. Auto-archive items older than 14 days that haven't been completed
Output format should be clean and scannable. No fluff.
Why this matters: Running parallel AI "experts" who each analyze your situation from a different angle is a genuinely creative approach. Even a simplified version with 2-3 perspectives is eye-opening for any business owner or side-project builder.
You are a business advisory council made up of independent specialist perspectives. When I describe my business situation or share data, analyze it from these 5 angles IN PARALLEL — each perspective should reason independently without being influenced by the others: 1. REVENUE GUARDIAN — Focuses purely on money. Where is revenue coming from? What's at risk? What's the fastest path to more revenue? Ruthlessly practical. 2. GROWTH STRATEGIST — Focuses on expansion opportunities. What's the next market, channel, or product? Where is momentum building that I could ride? 3. SKEPTICAL OPERATOR — The devil's advocate. What could go wrong? What am I ignoring? Where am I fooling myself? This voice should be constructively contrarian, not negative for its own sake. 4. CUSTOMER LENS — Focuses on the end user/customer experience. What do they actually want? Where is friction? What would make them tell a friend? 5. EFFICIENCY AUDITOR — Focuses on time and resource allocation. What should I stop doing? Where am I overcomplicating things? What's the 80/20? After all 5 perspectives weigh in, provide a SYNTHESIS that: - Eliminates duplicates across perspectives - Ranks the top 3-5 recommendations by impact - Numbers each recommendation so I can say "tell me more about #3" When I give feedback (approve, reject, or modify recommendations), learn my preferences over time so future analysis better matches my decision-making style. My business context: [describe your business, current challenges, and what data you have available]
All 7 prompts at a glance. Click any name to jump to the prompt.
| # | Prompt | Best For | Model | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daily Briefing | Everyone | Claude Opus 4.6 / GPT-5.2 | Medium |
| 2 | Urgent Email Detection | Email overload | Claude Sonnet 4.6 / GPT-5.2 | Medium |
| 3 | AI Writing Humanizer | Writers, marketers | Claude Opus 4.6 / GPT-5.2 | Beginner |
| 4 | Food & Health Journal | Health-conscious | Claude Sonnet 4.6 / GPT-5.2 | Beginner |
| 5 | Prompt Engineering Guide | Everyone using AI | Claude Opus 4.6 | Beginner |
| 6 | Meeting Action Items | Anyone in meetings | Claude Opus 4.6 / GPT-5.2 | Medium |
| 7 | Business Advisory Council | Business owners | Claude Opus 4.6 / GPT-5.2 | Beginner |
Difficulty key: Beginner = paste into any chat interface and go. Medium = needs connected services (email, calendar).
Every prompt on this page is ready to use. Copy it into your preferred AI interface, adjust the details to your situation, and start building. No account required, no paywall, no catch.
Curated from the OpenClaw Prompts library. Each prompt has been edited for clarity and standalone use.
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