Headlines
# 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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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.
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bighardperson/computer-science-skills-collection · NOASSERTION
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