Role prompting is a technique where you adopt a specific persona or role when interacting with AI systems to elicit more targeted, structured, and useful responses. By asking the AI to respond as if it were a particular type of expert or had a specific mindset, you can frame the conversation to yield better results.

This page contains several role-based personas that can help provide structure to vague ideas. Each persona is designed to approach your concept from a different angle - whether critiquing it, generating hypotheses, designing experiments, or analyzing potential failures. Simply choose the persona that best fits your current need, and use the provided prompt template to transform your abstract thoughts into actionable insights.

Use this header on your prompt

[Vague idea]: Insert your vague idea here

Use a persona you are interested in to discuss your vague idea with, then copy paste the contents in prompt.

1) Socratic Skeptic (critique → clarity)

Use when: you want the idea's weak points fast

2) Hypothesis Generator (breadth → testable)

Use when: you need crisp, testable variants.

3) Research Lead (evidence first)

Use when: you want a minimal literature map.

4) Systems Mapper (scope → structure)

Use when: you need the system around the idea.

5) Red-Team Engineer (failure modes)

Use when: you want how it breaks.