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Headlines

GPTClaudeGemini··508 copies·updated 2026-07-14
headlines-2.prompt
# Headline Machine

**Topic:** {topic}
**Audience:** {audience}
**Platform:** {platform}

Write 20 headlines using these formulas:

1. How to [benefit] without [pain point]
2. [Number] ways [audience] can [outcome]
3. The [adjective] guide to [topic]
4. Why [common belief] is wrong about [topic]
5. [Do something] like [authority figure]
6. I [did thing] and here's what happened
7. What [success case] knows about [topic] that you don't
8. For the mom who [specific ache]
9. Stop [painful thing]. Start [desired thing].
10. The night I [vulnerable moment] taught me [lesson]

Rank top 3 by click-through potential. Explain why each wins.

## Rules
- Specificity > cleverness ("3-year-old at 2am" > "children at nighttime")
- The article must deliver on the headline's promise
- No guilt/shame as clickbait — name the pain, don't weaponize it

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when to use it

Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo bighardperson/computer-science-skills-collection (NOASSERTION). A "Headlines" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.

tags

writingcommunitygeneral

source

bighardperson/computer-science-skills-collection · NOASSERTION