AI Series Day 3 | 12 Days of AI. Your AI Prompts Are Trash. Here's Why (And How Top Female Founders Fix It in 10 Seconds)

Ever asked ChatGPT for help and gotten a bland, robotic response?

Yeah, that’s not AI’s fault—it’s yours. But don’t worry, there’s an easy fix.

If AI’s answers sound like a bad TED Talk and not like YOU, it’s because you’re missing this one magic sentence. Add it to any prompt and your results get 10x more useful.

In Day 3 of 12 Days of AI Quick Wins, Dawn reveals the #1 reason AI sounds like a boring corporate intern—and how to fix it in one sentence. Whether you're writing posts, emails, or making strategy decisions, the “context sentence” is your new secret weapon. You’ll hear real examples, quick rewrites, and why this one tweak makes ChatGPT feel like a real assistant (not a clueless robot).

Your Day 3 Action:
Go back to one of your saved prompts from Day 2.
Add your personal context sentence to the front and save the new version.
Boom. Your Founder Prompt Kit just got smarter and more YOU.

Key Takeaways:

• Garbage in, garbage out. Vague prompts = vague answers.
• The fix: Add this sentence to every prompt:
  "I'm a [role] who needs [outcome] for [audience/situation]."
• Real talk AI: When you give context, AI writes like it gets you.
• Use cases covered: LinkedIn posts, team emails, strategic decisions.
• Founder mindset shift: You're not just typing—you're leading a conversation.

Resources & Links:

• Get the full 12 Days of AI Quick Wins Toolkit – just $7
• Register FREE for the Day 13 Live AI Implementation Party – win a 90-minute Strategy Intensive

Related Episodes

• DAY 1: Stop Overthinking ChatGPT: Free vs. $20—Which One Actually Matters for Founders
• DAY 2: The 3 AI Prompts Every Female Founder Needs in Her Phone (Copy These Now)

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She's That Founder
AI Series Day 3 | 12 Days of AI. Your AI Prompts Are Trash. Here's Why (And How Top Female Founders Fix It in 10 Seconds)

You asked AI for help and it gave you something technically correct, but completely useless, generic, robotic, nothing like what you actually needed.

Here's the truth. Garbage in, garbage out. We've all heard it. We've all said it, but now we're living it.

Here's the good news. One sentence added to any prompt makes the answer 10 times better.

Ready?

Hey, hey, hey. Welcome to She's That founder, the show that helps ambitious women stop drowning in decisions and start owning their CEO seat with a little AI magic. I'm Dawn Andrews, and this is day 3 of the 12 Days of ai, a female founder's holiday business intervention series.

Today's topic. A one sentence context formula that makes every AI answer smarter, sharper, more on point and closer to what you actually need. And I mean exactly what you need. 

Okay. Real talk. You're typing something like. Write me a LinkedIn post about delegation, and I have actually done this, and AI gives you bland, generic nonsense that sounds like it was written by a corporate robot who's never delegated a single task in their life and being a robot.

There's no life there. If that sounds familiar, here's what's actually happening. You didn't tell AI who you are. Who you're talking to or what you actually want. So AI is doing exactly what you asked, giving you a LinkedIn post about delegation. You got one and it sucks. 

So here's the fix, and I want you to write this down. Before any prompt add this one sentence.

“I'm a [your role], who needs your specific outcome for [your specific audience].’

That's it. One line, one sentence of context that changes everything. Now, if you wanna go deeper with this, like way deeper, I've got a full episode on my drive method for prompting AI. 

It's a five part framework that covers direction, role, intent, values, and execution. It's episode number 99, and it'll change how you use AI forever. 
But today we're keeping it simple with this one sentence starter that fixes 80% of your prompt problems. 

So stay here with me because I'm gonna show you exactly how this works.
Okay, we're gonna play a little good prompt, bad prompt. 

Example one, the LinkedIn post, a bad prompt. Write me a LinkedIn post about delegation. A good prompt. I'm a founder of a service-based business who needs a LinkedIn post about delegation for other female founders who are doing everything themselves.

Make it real, not preachy. Can you see the difference? 

Now AI knows your perspective. You're a founder, not a consultant. Your audience is female founders specifically, and your tone real, not corporate, even conversational translation. You'll get something that you'd actually post. good, prompt, bad, prompt.

Example number two and email. So a bad prompt, write me an email telling my team about the new project management system. A good prompt. I'm a CEO who needs an email from my eight person senior leadership team explaining why we're switching to Clickup.

They're resistant to change and overwhelmed. Make it short and focus on how this saves them time and doesn't add more work. 

Now, AI understands the real problem, resistance and overwhelm. It's not about the email, it's about what you're trying to resolve for the people that are receiving the email. Not just we're changing systems, but what you're doing to actually help them.

So can you feel how much more useful this is? 

Okay, good, prompt, bad prompt. Example number three, the strategy question. A bad prompt. Should I hire a marketing person, a good prompt? I'm a founder of a 500 K service business. Who needs to decide if I should hire a part-time marketing person or use AI tools and contractors?

I'm maxed out on time, but don't have 60,000 bucks for a full-time salary. Help me think through the trade-offs. Now, AI has a reasonable amount of context to actually help you think it through and give you some pros and cons, not just spit out generic advice about assessing your needs. 

Okay. Let's recap quickly.

Here's your one line that you add to every prompt that you write 
“I am, [what your role is.] Who needs the outcome that you want for audience or situation.” 

Add it before every prompt and watch your answers level up immediately. And listen, this is just scratching the surface. If you want the full framework for creating killer AI prompts, go listen to my episode on the Drive method.

It's called Stop Writing Terrible Prompts, and it'll teach you the five part system that I use with my executive clients. And this is your day three action item. Take one of your three prompts from day two, the email, the meeting prep or the decision helper, and add your context sentence to the front.

Save that updated version. And now your founder, prompt Kit is personalized to you. 

And if you wanna grab the complete 12 days of AI, quick wins toolkit, all the prompts, templates, workflows in one guide. Just a really delicious recap of all this. Go to hellodawn.live/day13. And you can grab the whole thing for just seven bucks. 

On day 13 is our live AI implementation party where we'll wire these workflows into your actual business. And I'm also giving away a 90 minute AI strategy intensive so you can register for free at hellodawn.live/day13The links in the show notes. 

See you tomorrow for another holiday gift.