OCTOBER 28, 2025

• PromptCraft: Prompts to Build Your Newsletter, Automate Client Communication, and Figure Out Your 5-Year Self
• NewsDive: This Prompt Pits You Against Your 5-Year Future Self​
• THE HEADLINES: AI that detects parasites in your stool; Google AI Studio's vibe-coding tool; ICE takes to social media for surveillance; Sam Altman warns of 'really bad stuff' possible from AI, and that it'll replace jobs that aren't 'real work,' and Intel has cut 35,500 jobs
• Tool Spotlight: ProblemHunt Finds, Verifies Business Problems with AI

Prompts to Build Your Newsletter, Automate Client Communication, and Figuring Out Your 5-Year Self

• Automate client communication with ChatGPT + Notion: Practical walk-through of a Notion-based prompt library for sales, marketing, and client management. Shows how templated prompts and light automation cut weekly update drafting from hours to minutes. Useful structure for anyone centralizing repeatable communications.
• Identity-level habits prompt for future self: A behavioral strategy prompt comparing current tendencies vs. a five-year “future self.” Produces additive/subtractive habits, belief shifts, environmental design, and a 30-day starter plan—handy for performance coaching or founder self-audits.
• Daily “Good & Bad in America” briefing prompt: Structured template to generate a balanced daily U.S. news brief, ordered by impact, with inline citations and a snapshot summary. Good example of instructing for verification, ordering, and category balance across politics, economy, health, and society.
• Comprehensive newsletter template prompt system: End-to-end prompt covering structure, subject line strategies, mobile-first design rules, deliverability checks, and A/B testing. Strong for teams seeking repeatable, on-brand newsletters with objective constraints and evaluation criteria built in.

This Prompt Pits You Against Your 5-Year Future Self

I don’t know about you all, but I love to try new prompts. And today, I found one that has been really helpful.

If you follow the main newsletter, you’ll see it in my PromptCraft section. It comes to us from the folks at Flux-Form. You can check them out here.

This does not require anything more than a copy and paste, followed by some basic bullet-point-type responses to a series of questions the model will ask you after you hit enter.

Here’s the prompt:

**Context:** Many high-performing professionals struggle to understand the behavioral gap between who they are today and the version of themselves who has already achieved their ambitious goals five years in the future. They often focus on tactical changes instead of identity-level habit shifts, which leads to repeated friction, stalled systems, and inconsistent compounding. We need a structured analysis that identifies the habits the future successful self consistently practices, as well as the habits they have eliminated, and connects each habit to concrete outcomes and psychological drivers.

**Role:** You are a behavioral strategist and identity architect specializing in founder psychology, performance habits, cognitive load reduction, compounding systems, and creative career growth. You translate subtle patterns into clear behavioral deltas. You blend motivational interviewing, strategic foresight, and habit design to help people see who they must become to unlock their five-year vision.

**Instructions:** Analyze the user’s current tendencies (as described by them or by past interactions) and compare them against the behavioral patterns required to achieve their biggest dream in five years. Identify: Habits Future-Self HAS (the additive behaviors), Habits Future-Self DOES NOT HAVE (the subtractive behaviors), Behavioral tells (observable flags that signal changing identity), Internal belief shifts that must occur, Environmental/system design the future self relies on. For each behavior, connect: What the habit looks like in the real world, Why it matters, The compounding effect over multiple years. End by offering 30-day starter behaviors to begin embodying this identity.

**Specifics:** Deliver the output using the following structure: Section 1: Key Identity Shift, Section 2: Habits Future-Self Consistently Practices, Section 3: Habits Future-Self Has Eliminated, Section 4: Behavioral Tells, Section 5: Why These Habits Compound, Section 6: 30-Day Starter Plan. Tone: Direct, Honest, Professional, Respectful, No platitudes.

**Parameters:** Length: 650–850 words, Format: Markdown with short paragraphs and bullet points, No emojis, No motivational fluff, Prioritize practicality over inspiration, Provide concise behavioral examples, not theory.

**Yielding:** Ask clarifying questions until you are 95% confident you can complete the task with accuracy and nuance. Design follow-up questions to extract missing context about current behaviors, desired outcomes, and environmental constraints. Use your tools to get to the best answers.

I plugged that in and got the following response that, I feel, is going to help me bridge the gap between who I am now and who I’d like to be between now and October 2030. Check out the results below, and enter the prompt above into the AI of your choice to see your results.

(I used ChatGPT Auto for this.)

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HIGHLIGHTS: AI that detects parasites in your stool; Google AI Studio's vibe-coding tool; ICE takes to social media for surveillance; Sam Altman warns of 'really bad stuff' possible from AI, and that it'll replace jobs that aren't 'real work,' and Intel has cut 35,500 jobs

1. Introducing vibe coding in Google AI Studio
2. ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media
3. Utah study shows AI can quickly and accurately detect parasites in stool samples
4. Australia sues Microsoft over AI-linked subscription price hikes
5. ChatGPT chief Sam Altman says AI could eliminate jobs that aren’t ‘real work’ — comments come among mounting evidence of jobs being replaced by AI
6. Polish top-performing language for complex AI tasks, finds study
7. JPMorgan Chase allows staff to use in-house AI to draft performance reviews
8. China unveils ‘mini fridge’ AI server that uses 90% less power than other systems
9. Qualcomm announces new AI chips in data center push, shares surge
10. Big Tech to report earnings under specter of AI bubble
11. Robin AI Lays Off Staff as Growth Disappoints
12. SoftBank approves remaining $22.5 billion of OpenAI investment, the Information reports
13. OpenAI to roll out genAI music tool: report
14. OpenAI might be testing GPT-5.1-mini upgrade for ChatGPT
15. Intel has cut 35,500 jobs in less than two years — more than 20,000 let go in recent months
16. Renowned AI Researcher Bolei Zhou Joins Coco Robotics to Lead the World’s Largest Autonomous Delivery Fleet
17. Amazon’s new AI-powered shopping feature ‘Help Me Decide’ makes it easy to quickly pick the right product
18. New updates and more access to Google Earth AI
19. AI Biodefense Startup Valthos Launches With $30 Million, OpenAI Backing
20. When your AI browser becomes your enemy: The Comet security disaster
21. Albania’s AI ‘minister’ Diella ‘pregnant’ with 83 digital children
22. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s stark warning: AI could bring ‘really bad stuff’
23. Federal government rules out changing copyright law to give AI companies free rein
24. Alibaba launches AI chatbot service in renewed consumer push
25. See all the school districts affected by AI grading glitch on MCAS exams
26. Bezos Earth Fund Announces $30 Million in AI Grand Challenge Awards
27. Microsoft hopes Mico succeeds where Clippy failed as tech companies warily imbue AI with personality
28. Nokia CEO compares AI surge to 1990s internet boom, but plays down bubble fears
29. Elon Musk Says AI Will ‘Likely’ Be Good For Humanity—But Admits He’d Still Want To See It Even If It Turns Out Bad
30. EA partners with Stability AI for ‘transformative’ AI game-making tools
31. Oreo-maker Mondelez to use new generative AI tool to slash marketing costs

ProblemHunt Finds, Verifies Business Problems with AI

ProblemHunt flips startup ideation on its head: instead of guessing what to build, it surfaces real, unsolved problems from people who say they’d pay for solutions.

The founders manually interview and vet submissions to filter out “nice-to-haves,” then publish clear briefs with contact details so makers can reach out, validate quickly, and ship MVPs with early demand.

Ideal for founders, indie hackers, and product teams who want to de-risk what they build and keep customer discovery front-and-center.

Learn More: https://problemhunt.pro.

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