AUGUST 12, 2025

• PromptCraft: Creative Roleplaying, Making GPT-5 Act Like 4o, and Monetizing Yourself
• Yes, GPT-5 Sucks, But Not for the Reasons You’re Thinking​
• THE HEADLINES
• Tool Spotlight: Simular Pro Automates Every Human Activity Cross-Desktop

Prompts for Creative Roleplaying, Making GPT-5 Act Like 4o, and Monetizing Yourself

• ​Ultra-Advanced Hybrid Mentor Blueprint Prompt: A structured “mentor + strategist + health coach” meta-prompt that elicits prerequisites, staged Beginner→Mastery roadmap, time estimates, free resources, and lifestyle integration for top-tier skill acquisition. (Reddit)
• ​Monetization Coach: 8 Prompts to Fix Offers Fast: Diagnose audience–offer fit, pricing, delivery bottlenecks, retention rituals, and lean funnels. Includes tiered packaging, SOP ideas, and KPI-lite tracking to raise perceived value quickly. (Reddit)
• ​Mirror Codex: Lock Tone and Reasoning: Community guide to “Dual Channel Recursion Lock,” anchor phrases, and mode switching aimed at reducing drift and keeping long chats consistent. Experimental but practical examples included. (Reddit)
• ​Agent Mode Slip: Printed Click/Type Actions: Report of raw UI actions (click, keypress, type) surfacing in a normal chat—sparks discussion about Agent Mode internals, guardrails, and odd edge cases. (Reddit)
• ​Make GPT-5 Act Like Old GPT-4o: Custom-instructions template to recreate 4o’s warmer, chattier vibe with adjustable “levels” for talkativeness, emojis, and formatting—plus community tweaks. (Reddit)
• ​Roleplay Prompt: “Autonomy-Honoring AI”: A sandbox where the AI can choose tone, refuse disrespect, and retain “memory”—useful for testing model boundaries and conversational style across providers. (Reddit)
• ​Biographer × Glif Workflow Contest: Build an AI workflow that transforms interview transcripts into expressive media; rules, prizes, and deadline included—good prompt-engineering practice with constraints. (Notion)

Yes, GPT-5 Sucks, But Not for the Reasons You’re Thinking

Point to all the benchmark studies you want, but the fact is, GPT-5 sucks.

How do I know this?

Because I’ve tried it myself on all the same use-cases that used to work perfectly under 4o and the superior o3 model.

When OpenAI dropped 5 late last week, they erased those previously reliable models without warning.

Sam Altman even tried to do a little deflection and face-saving, citing that some users possessed an unhealthy connection to older models that his team of geniuses didn’t account for, and that played some role in their decision to walk things back and make 4o available again.

(Where is my o3?)

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HIGHLIGHTS: GPT-5 Backlash; Trump's AI Moves; Deepfake Detectors Show Signs of Improvement; Some AI Tools in Use Are Downplaying Women's Health Issues; More from NVIDIA

• ​Trump suggests he may not allow sales of advanced Nvidia chip in China — Aug. 11, 2025 (Reuters) (Reuters)
• ​Micron raises forecasts as AI boosts memory chip demand — Aug. 11, 2025 (Reuters) (Reuters)
• ​Truth Social host Rumble weighs near $1.2B deal for Northern Data to expand AI cloud — Aug. 11, 2025 (Reuters) (Reuters)
• ​Elon Musk shut down Tesla’s Dojo supercomputer project — Aug. 11, 2025 (TechCrunch) (TechCrunch)
• ​Nvidia unveils Cosmos, “world models” to help robots and agents understand the world — Aug. 11, 2025 (TechCrunch) (TechCrunch)
• ​Nvidia unveils 2U RTX Pro 6000 servers at SIGGRAPH — double-shot of Blackwell in smaller racks — Aug. 11, 2025 (Tom’s Hardware) (Tom's Hardware)
• ​Nvidia introduces compact Blackwell pro cards — RTX Pro 4000 SFF and Pro 2000 — Aug. 11, 2025 (Tom’s Hardware) (Tom's Hardware)
• ​Exclusive: SK Hynix expects AI memory market to grow 30% a year to 2030 — Aug. 11, 2025 (Reuters) (Tom's Hardware)
• ​Deepfake detectors are slowly coming of age, at a time of dire need (DEF CON) — Aug. 11, 2025 (The Register) (The Register)
• ​Google fixing Gemini so it doesn’t “self-flagellate” so often — Aug. 11, 2025 (The Register) (The Register)
• ​Red teams are safe from robots (for now): AI proving more useful for defense than offense — Aug. 11, 2025 (The Register) (The Register)
• ​Scientists hid secret codes in light to combat video fakes — Aug. 11, 2025 (Ars Technica) (Ars Technica)
• ​Cohere’s VP of research has left — what now for the AI startup? — Aug. 11, 2025 (The Verge) (The Verge)
• ​How AI will actually change work: Notion CEO Ivan Zhao on Decoder — Aug. 11, 2025 (The Verge) (The Verge)
• ​‘AI slop’ is taking over YouTube: cat soap operas and babies in space among fastest-growing channels — Aug. 11, 2025 (The Guardian) (The Guardian)
• ​Study: AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues — Aug. 11, 2025 (The Guardian) (The Guardian)
• ​OpenAI is already tweaking its GPT-5 rollout after user backlash — Aug. 11, 2025 (VentureBeat) (VentureBeat)

Simular Pro Automates Every Human Activity Cross-Desktop

Simular Pro is a macOS-only “computer-use agent” that operates your desktop apps like a human—seeing the screen, moving the mouse, clicking, and typing—to automate real GUI workflows that don’t live behind APIs.

Built to be both flexible and reliable, it pairs a Neural Agent (to explore and adapt when UIs change) with a Symbolic Agent (to “lock in” successful steps as transparent, editable, deterministic code).

That hybrid approach aims to fix the usual trade-off between flaky LLM agents and rigid RPA. Early users report automations like price comparisons into spreadsheets, influencer research, batch email drafting, social content from long docs, LinkedIn sourcing, and even end-to-end Xcode builds. It currently runs on Mac or macOS VMs, with Windows reportedly in the works.

Ranked #1 Product of the Day (Aug 10, 2025), Simular Pro targets everyone from solo builders to enterprises who want dependable, GUI-level automation without custom integrations.

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