Proven prompts, forged to work.

Proven prompt templates for the AI work you actually ship

32 real, copy-and-paste prompt templates across 14 categories, 16 advanced prompting formulas, and a mastered Stable Diffusion 1.5 cinematic POV guide. Each template ships with the constraints and negative prompts that make it work — and the checklist we tested it against.

32tested prompt templates
14use-case categories
16prompting formulas
8anti-hallucination rules

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Stable Diffusion 1.5 Image Prompts

SD1.5 Cinematic POV scene

Mastered from the POV generation guide: layered hierarchy + countermeasures.

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Agent Prompts

Research agent

ReAct research loop with citations.

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Stable Diffusion 1.5 Image Prompts

Proven SD1.5 prompt templates for photoreal, cinematic POV, anime and LoRA styling — with the negative prompts that keep hands and faces intact.

4 templates

System Prompts

Production system prompts built on the identity / constraints / process / output-contract architecture.

3 templates

Function-Calling Prompts

Contract-bound prompts for tool calling, extraction and classification that return parseable output every time.

3 templates

Code Prompts

Spec-first coding prompts that state constraints, versions and the tests the answer must satisfy.

2 templates

Writing Prompts

Long-form and rewrite prompts with voice, structure and preservation rules.

2 templates

Analysis Prompts

Decision-grade analysis prompts: SWOT, weighted comparison and evidence-backed recommendations.

2 templates

Reasoning Prompts

Chain-of-thought, self-check and root-cause prompts for problems that need a correct answer, not a plausible one.

2 templates

Marketing Prompts

AIDA copy, positioning and pain-point discovery prompts for campaigns that convert.

2 templates

Translation Prompts

Meaning-first translation and full localization prompts with register and glossary control.

2 templates

Education Prompts

Explainer and assessment prompts that build understanding and check it.

2 templates

Data Extraction Prompts

Table and entity extraction prompts that return verbatim values in a fixed schema.

2 templates

Roleplay Prompts

Character and scenario prompts with explicit in-character contracts.

2 templates

Agent Prompts

Research and planning prompts for ReAct loops, decomposition and citation-backed answers.

2 templates

Chat Prompts

Assistant and mentor chat prompts with boundaries against fabrication.

2 templates

Advanced prompting formulas

The formula is the difference between a lucky output and a repeatable one. Each of the 16 formulas includes its skeleton and when to use it.

The differentiator: the SD1.5 cinematic POV guide

Bare POV in a Stable Diffusion 1.5 prompt is a trap: it triggers fisheye distortion, oversized hands and warped geometry. Our guide — written from a 29 KB researched source and distilled into working prompt logic — gives you the categorized positive/negative dictionary, the 6-step hierarchy and the exact countermeasures that fix it.

1. Quality & Style Foundation
2. Subject & Action
3. POV & Composition
4. Foreground Elements
5. Background & Environment
6. Lighting & Mood

Build broad → specific in this order and the model stops guessing.

Why these prompts are different

Proven, not guessed

Each template carries the evaluation checklist it was tested against in our own optimizer (multi-round critic loop, target score 85). You get the rubric, not just the words.

Structured, not scraps

Real output contracts, format pins and negative prompts — the parts most "prompt lists" leave out.

The robustness rules we bake into every prompt

  • Ground every factual claim; cite sources when available.
  • Distinguish 'known', 'inferred', and 'assumed' — never blur them.
  • Say 'insufficient context' instead of guessing.
  • Keep instructions unambiguous: one action per sentence where possible.
  • Prefer concrete, testable criteria over adjectives.
  • Specify the audience and the desired response format explicitly.
  • Add few-shot exemplars for any non-trivial output shape.
  • Budget context: put the most important instructions first.

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Content generated from the PromptForge knowledge base on 2026-09-17 · 32 prompt pages, 16 formula pages, 14 category pages.