Introduction Most people start using AI tools with a few assumptions already in place. Some of those assumptions are harmless. Others lead to frustration - because they cause you to expect something the tool was never designed to do. The three misconceptions covered...
Getting Started
Prompting ChatGPT — What to Expect and How to Adjust
Introduction You have probably noticed that ChatGPT does not always give you exactly what you expected. The output is structured when you want prose. It is neutral when you need a specific tone. It is longer - or shorter - than the task required. That is not a flaw in...
Prompting Claude — What to Expect and How to Adjust
Introduction Claude tends to behave differently from other AI tools. Its responses are often more nuanced, more qualified, and sometimes longer than the task strictly requires. For some tasks, those tendencies are exactly what you want. For others, they get in the...
Prompting Gemini — What to Expect and How to Adjust
Introduction Of the three major AI tools in wide use today - ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini - Gemini often surprises users the most. Its behavior varies more across versions and integrations than that of the other tools. What works in one Gemini environment may produce...
Prompting Perplexity – What to Expect and How to Adjust
Introduction Perplexity AI behaves differently from ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini in one fundamental way: it retrieves information from the web before it generates a response. Every answer is shaped by live search results, not just by learned patterns from training...
Prompting NotebookLM
Introduction NotebookLM is not a general-purpose AI assistant. It is a source-based research tool built by Google. You upload your own documents, notes, and links. The system works from those sources - not from general training data. This changes how prompting works....





