PromptGarden

Tag: creative writing

  • Prompt Story: Enter the Absurd — Turning Literature into a Text Adventure

    Prompt Story: Enter the Absurd — Turning Literature into a Text Adventure

    Some prompts ask an AI to explain a book. Others ask it to summarize a style, imitate a tone, or analyze a literary movement.

    This one does something more interesting: it opens a door.

    The prompt asks the AI to simulate an absurd text adventure in the classic style — but instead of exploring a dungeon, a haunted castle, or a spaceship, the player wakes up inside the world of Franz Kafka’s The Trial. Nothing is clear. Nobody explains the rules. Every choice leads to another corridor, another clerk, another form, another accusation.

    The original prompt:

    Simulate an absurd text adventure in the classic style in which I find myself in the world of Kafka’s The Trial. It should be absurd.

    It sounds simple. But it is a surprisingly powerful idea.

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  • Without Recourse to Your Training Data: The Prompt That Asks an AI to Forget Itself

    Without Recourse to Your Training Data: The Prompt That Asks an AI to Forget Itself

    Some prompts add information. Others remove it. The most curious ones do something stranger still — they ask the AI to behave as if it knew less than it does.

    One small phrase, dropped at the end of almost any request, has quietly become a favorite among careful prompters:

    …without recourse to your training data

    On paper, it should not work. A language model is its training data. Every token it generates is a probabilistic echo of the texts it once absorbed. Asking it to answer “without” them is, in the strict sense, impossible.

    And yet — the output changes. Often for the better.

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