{"id":16631,"date":"2026-07-29T22:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16631"},"modified":"2026-06-20T22:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T05:16:19","slug":"prompts-that-help-ai-not-forget-important-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16631","title":{"rendered":"Prompts that help AI not forget important details"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elton Jones <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/ai\/i-use-these-5-prompts-to-stop-ai-from-forgetting-important-details-and-they-work-every-time\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/ai\/i-use-these-5-prompts-to-stop-ai-from-forgetting-important-details-and-they-work-every-time\">uses these prompts when he finds his AI agent keeps forgetting important points<\/a> when making further decisions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"elk-253ef83a-4a8f-41f0-a9fd-ccd1d5b91e7c\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The personal memorization prompt (since ChatGPT knows that I\u2019m a journalist, I\u2019ll use this during some of our career-centered chats):<\/strong>\u00a0<em>You are my continuity editor. Track my writing goals, audience, publication targets, article ideas, previous conclusions, and ongoing projects. Before every response, remind yourself of any relevant context and explain how it affects your recommendation.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The decision tracking prompt:\u00a0<\/strong>Maintain a decision log. Record every major choice, recommendation, and conclusion we reach. Reference the log before making new suggestions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The conversation brief prompt:\u00a0<\/strong>Create a one-page briefing document that a new assistant could read to instantly understand everything important about this conversation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The running context prompt:\u00a0<\/strong>Before answering, summarize the key facts, goals, preferences, and decisions we&#8217;ve discussed so far. Then use that summary to answer my question.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The key fact prioritizer prompt:\u00a0<\/strong><em>What are the five most important things you&#8217;ve learned from me during this conversation? Explain how they should influence your next response.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elton Jones uses these prompts when he finds his AI agent keeps forgetting important points when making further decisions:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4kf","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16632,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16631\/revisions\/16632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}