Give the AI a hat to wear, and its whole way of answering flips. "Explain it like I'm a child", "answer like a lawyer"… Same question, radically different replies. Try it 👇
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The game · swap the hat
Same question: "what is the cloud?"
Click a hat. The AI answers the same question, but with the role and tone you pick.
🙋 "Explain what the cloud is, playing the role of…"
🤖 The AI's answer
👆 Pick a hat and watch the tone change.
What this teaches you
The role sets the register
🎭 "Play the role of…"
A simple "act as a [job]" steers the vocabulary, the level of detail and the style. Powerful, and free.
🎚️ Tone is a dial
"Warm", "blunt", "step-by-step", "for a child": you set the slider. Ask, and you shall receive.
Check that you got it
2 quick questions
1. What does "explain it like I'm a 5-year-old" do?
Right: you fix the register. Same info, explained simply, with images. Perfect for grasping something new.
2. How do you get an expert-level answer?
Right: the role summons the matching vocabulary and depth. "Like an expert" ≠ "like to a child".
What to remember
Give it a role ("act as a…"): it steers vocabulary, detail and style.
Command the tone: warm, blunt, funny, for a child… you choose.
Same question, very different answers depending on the hat. You're the one holding the dial.