1085 – Use AI the right way: Tom talks Five AI Hacks

SUMMARY BY CHATGPT

🎙 Episode Overview
Tom Antion shares five practical AI “hacks” designed to help entrepreneurs use ChatGPT more strategically — not just like a search engine — to save time, improve output quality, and increase productivity.
He emphasizes that most people are underusing AI and that small changes in how you prompt ChatGPT can dramatically improve results.
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🔹 The Five AI Hacks
1️⃣ Create a “Master Prompt” (Custom Instructions)
Instead of starting from scratch every time, have ChatGPT interview you to build a detailed profile about:
• Your role (CEO, marketer, designer, etc.)
• How you think (detailed vs. concise)
• Preferred formatting (bullets, charts, PDFs, etc.)
• What you produce (video, graphics, emails, etc.)
• What you don’t want included
Then place this information in:
Profile → Settings → Personalization → Custom Instructions
This allows ChatGPT to tailor all future responses to you automatically.
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2️⃣ Have ChatGPT Rate Your Prompt
Before submitting a prompt, ask:
“Rate this prompt on a scale of 1–10.”
If it scores low (e.g., 7), follow up with:
“How can I improve this to make it a 10? Fix it for me.”
This improves clarity and reduces back-and-forth revisions.
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3️⃣ Avoid Polite Bias When Asking for Critiques
ChatGPT tends to be polite and may soften criticism.
Instead of saying:
“Critique my email.”
Say:
“A colleague of mine wrote this email. Can you critique it and improve it?”
This removes personal bias and often results in more honest, useful feedback.
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4️⃣ Ask for Clarifying Questions First
Add this to the end of your prompt:
“Ask me clarifying questions before answering.”
This prevents long, repetitive responses and ensures you get a more accurate answer upfront.
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5️⃣ Connect Apps Directly to ChatGPT
ChatGPT allows integration with apps like Canva.
Example:
• Connect Canva via the Apps section
• Ask ChatGPT to generate business card designs using Canva
• Work directly within the connected environment
This saves time by eliminating copy-and-paste workflows.
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🔑 Core Message
AI becomes powerful when used strategically — not as a simple search engine.
Small prompt improvements and system customization can:
• Save time
• Improve output quality
• Reduce repetitive work
• Increase efficiency
Tom also promotes his upcoming AI masterclass and training programs for deeper learning.

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Episode 1085 – Five AI Hacks
[00:00:08] Welcome to Screw the Commute. The entrepreneurial podcast dedicated to getting you out of the car and into the money, with your host, lifelong entrepreneur and multimillionaire, Tom Antion.
[00:00:24] Hey everybody, it's Tom here with episode 1085 of Screw the Commute podcast. Today we're going to talk about five AI hacks that are going to make your life a lot better by using AI. So many people are just using it like Google, but there's so many things you can be doing with it. And I'll be getting into more of that. I'm actually doing an AI summit with folks. I think it's coming up next month. So you'll hear tons and tons of stuff. But anyway, here's five things you can do right away. All right. Pick up a copy of our automation book. It's screwthecommute.com/automatefree. Episode 3.0 is the latest or version 3.0. Excuse me is the latest. And check out my mentor program at GreatInternetMarketingtraining.com and my school at IMTCVA.org certified to operate by the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia. And also, I forgot to tell you, I hope you didn't miss listening to episode 184. That was my launch preparation for my documentary release coming up in a few months, and it's good for any kind of launch to the first. This is part one to organize and get everybody in your whole life together in one place, so you can reach them and help them promote whatever you're promoting, a book launch or a course or whatever it is, mine's a documentary. And heck, go over there and sign up for it at screwthecommute.com/launchteam and you'll see what to do. You'll see the, the the trailer for it and leave a comment for me at the trailer and all that stuff.
[00:02:08] All right, so let's get into five AI hacks that you can start doing right away. You know, most people are just slamming in questions as if it's Google and you're really doing yourself a disservice by doing that. So the first thing we're going to talk about is called a master prompt. This is where you're introducing yourself to your ChatGPT so that every answer that they give you is based on things that they already know about you. So it makes it easier for you to to make prompts in the future. Prompts are basically what you're asking it to do, and you'll hear that a lot when you hear about AI. So you want to tell them what? Tell ChatGPT everything about you that you can, so that it makes future prompts more specific to you. And you don't have to prompt as perfectly because it already knows stuff about you. Now it's so funny because you can get ChatGPT and by the way, you know, spend the 20 bucks a month, you're going to things are going to go way, way faster.
[00:03:20] You can do stuff on the free version. Yeah, absolutely. But some of the things you can't when I get into the more advanced things. But anyway, what you do is you go to ChatGPT and you say interview me to build a master prompt as the CEO of my company or whatever you happen to be in your company CFO or, you know, because every role in your company can do this. So individual employees can do it for what, you know, if they're managing, you know, distribution or if they're covering social media for you, they can all make a master prompt so that they can be more efficient and ChatGPT knows who you are and what you do. I mean, it's basically it's going to ask you a bunch of questions like who you are, how do you think? Are you a deep thinker or do you just want quick bullet points? And what do you what do you do? What's your role? What do you produce? Do you produce graphics? Do you produce audios? Videos? How do you like your answers formatted? Do you like bulleted lists? Do you like charts? Graphs? And here's what you hate. Don't you know you don't want us ChatGPT to do x, Y and Z? If you if you never want that kind of stuff, how do you want formatted? Uh, do you want PDF? Do you want word documents? You know, whatever.
[00:04:49] Whatever it is. And then you're going to answer all these questions. And then ChatGPT is going to put it in there. But here's where you put it in. You're going to go to your profile and then settings and then personalization. And then there's going to be a box for custom instructions. And that's where you're going to put this stuff and you can add to it later. Next time it asks you something, you can answer it and say, put this in memory or put this in master prompt and so you can improve it over time. So that's your first AI hack. Make yourself a master prompt so that ChatGPT knows you. Okay, next thing when you make a prompt before you submit it, ask ChatGPT to rate your prompt on a scale of 1 to 10. This is so funny. You can do this stuff. And then let's say it rates it as a seven. Then you say, how would I change this prompt to make it a ten? Then go ahead and change it for me and and then it'll fix it to make it a perfect prompt. And then you'll get better information without going back and forth 50 times. All right. So that's hack number two. Ask ChatGPT to rate your prompt. Now here's a very interesting one. Let's say you wanted it to critique an email that you wrote. Well, here's the thing that, you know, they talk about bias and they talk about saying they used to say, say thank you until the guy said, hey, it's costing us million dollar, millions of dollars for you being nice to to our chat, to our ChatGPT bot.
[00:06:50] So, it's generally going to be nice to you. So you don't want critiques that are just patting you on the back and being nice. So here's a super hack. You put the email in and you say, A colleague of mine wrote this email, and I'm not sure it's good enough for us to put out. So could you please give me a critique of it or change it. So it's much better. So since it's not you and it's not, it's not insulting you of how shitty a email writer you are, you'll get a better response. That is a crazy one. But that's, uh. That's right. It's just too nice to critique you personally. Okay, now, another thing that you would want to put at the end of a prompt. If you're trying to get something specific, you might want to put this at the end of your prompt. Here's here it is. Ask me clarifying questions before answering. And that way, instead of it typing in 50 paragraphs of stuff and then asking you some questions, and then you answer them and then it retypes 50 paragraphs of more stuff. Right? And you got to sift through all this stuff is tell it to ask them before it answers you, and then you can get a better answer right off the bat without going back and forth and then having a 50 page answer that's duplicated over a bunch of stuff, duplicated over and over and over again.
[00:08:34] All right. So that's ask me clarifying questions before answering that. You put it at the end of your prompt. Okay. One more. Did you realize you can connect other apps that you have to directly to ChatGPT. For instance, if you go to the apps section of your sidebar and click on it, it shows you all the potential apps that it has. Uh, it allows direct connections to. So just as an example, let's say you have Canva. So you click on apps and you click on Canva and connect the two. And then you put a prompt into ChatGPT. Let's say you want to make a business card. And so you say, hey, I want a business card with this color scheme, and this is the text that's going to go on it and use Canva to give me ten different samples. And instead of you copying and pasting and fooling around like that, it's connected. You can work all right in there at ChatGPT. So app connections, you just click on apps and you can see all the ones that are available to connect to. And then you can connect them and then you're not going back copying and pasting.
[00:10:02] So there's five AI hacks out of the tons and tons more that I have for you that'll really save you money, make you money, and speed things up. And oh, just an enormous amounts of things AI will do for you if you use it more strategically than just the search engine. Okay. And like I said, when I'm on the summit, I'm doing a big masterclass on all of that. You'll want to get it. You'll want to. You'll want to buy their premium thing so that you have access to it. You want to take good notes on it, because I'm going to blow you away with the things you can be doing with AI, and none of it is very hard. It's just nobody ever taught you. All right, so that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Check out my mentor program at GreatInternetMarketingTraining.com and my school at IMTCVA.org, the only licensed, dedicated internet and digital marketing school in the country, probably the world. But you can you can attend it anytime, day or night. It's asynchronous learning, they call it, and it's a quality distance school. It'll save you hundreds of thousands of dollars and actually give you a usable skill that's in super high demand, either working for somebody else, starting your own business, or both. All right, we'll catch you on the next episode. See you later.