ChatGPT-5 Is Different & Needs New Prompts

💼 In Today’s 5-min AI Brief

• Everyday AI Toolkit: Make Your AI Sound Like You (5-Min Setup Once)

• Prompt of the Week: GPT-5 New Prompt Template

• AI News You Can Use: What is Google’s NanoBanana?

• What I’m Learning: Context Engineering, Learnings from my AI Agency

Hey, here’s this week’s AI Brief!

I’ve been MIA the past few weeks to deal with some changes with my agency (new offer & website) that we’re excited about. At the end of this brief, I also share a little more about what we’ve been learning from implementing AI systems into businesses!

💡 🛠️ Your Everyday AI Toolkit

Make Your AI Sound Like You (5-Min Setup Once)

Today, I’m sharing a 5-minute exercise to help you easily make your AI finally sound like you.

Step 1: Create a new document in Word or Google Docs

Step 2: Choose a topic you’re passionate about and talk about it for 5 minutes while using voice dictation (i.e., Wispr Flow, Siri, Voice Memo, etc.) to record it all

Step 3: Now you have the perfect writing sample of how you authentically speak. There are different ways to now add this to your AI, but here are the top 2 ways I’d recommend:

Step 4A (My favorite): You can upload this document in your AI, ask it to extract all of the important writing style, voice and tone from the sample and create a writing style instructions for itself. Then, take this writing style instructions and paste it into the custom instructions of the ChatGPT project in which you work on writing with AI. If you want to apply this voice/tone to all your AI’s responses, then add it to your entire ChatGPT instructions by right clicking on the ChatGPT button in the left-hand side of the app. A final point, if you want to give your AI even more information, you can additionally add your full writing sample to the context files of your project and write something at the end of your current instructions like “If needed, reference the full writing sample of my voice/tone in the attached PDF ‘My Writing Sample.pdf’ “

Step 4B (easier setup): Next time you have a response you want to apply your voice to, just upload document of your writing sample to your chat and ask it something like: “please re-write this response and add the writing style, voice and tone from this attached writing sample”.

💭 Prompt of the Week

GPT-5 New Prompt Template ChatGPT-5 is different and it needs a new prompt template. Watch the full GPT-5 Prompt Template Video.

OpenAI even released a guide about how we need to be more careful when prompting more powerful AI models. 

But instead of trying to remember all the new prompting rules, here’s the 3-step prompt template that’s been going viral (source).

AI News You Can Use

Nano Banana

• Google’s newest AI product is called Nano Banana. It lets you create and modify AI-generated images. The product manager from Google gave a live demo of Nano Banana if you’re interested. But here are 2 highlights from the live demo to give you a quick overview:

  • Highlight 1: AI-Generated Marketing Assets. You can transform basic product photos into high-quality marketing materials in a few seconds. The model can also generate marketing slogans along with the photos and maintain brand consistency across formats.

  • Highlight 2: Fine Image Editing With Prompts. The photo generation takes a few seconds instead of 45 seconds (like ChatGPT) and now you can more select precise areas for targeted changes. That way you don’t mess up the rest of the photo when you want a simple tweak.

📖What I’m Learning

If you’re interested in what I’ve been digging into… check out:

• Advanced Context Engineering for Agents - I watched this great talk about how to manage context/memory of your AI tools. This is part of my larger research on what the best solution would be to work with having a shared business context for my team across all our AI tools. Whenever we make changes to our businesses (product offerings, marketing efforts, strategy, team), we then have to individually update our context documents on each platform… which is not ideal. If anyone here has solved this or wants to brainstorm, please hit me up with your insights!

Learnings from AI Agency

If you didn’t know, in addition to making AI accessible through videos and this newsletter, my agency (Elevaite) does AI consulting and development for small to mid-sized businesses, agencies & startups. As we speak to more small business owners, we’re starting to spot common, high-impact AI use cases. Here are two we’ve noticed:

1. Automating Sales Proposals: Taking in all the discovery and business context in order to generate complete proposals in seconds.

2. AI-Powered Content: Automating marketing/writing and training their AI to sound more like them whether it’s in emails or social posts. Which is also why I included the 5-minute exercise above on how to get your AI to sound more like you!

Final Thoughts

If you made it this far, thanks for being an early reader and I hope I’ve helped make AI more accessible for you. If you liked hearing about what I’m learning from directly implementing AI into businesses, let me know so I can make sure to include more of it!

-Thaddeus