How to Prompt with Wake Words in ChatGPT: One Word Callouts Save Hours Prompting on Common Tasks

Yes for real! You can use custom one-word callouts in ChatGPT for common prompts you care about—I'll share how it works, and you can use it for you and your whole team in like 10 minutes

So this was an unexpected gift. I learned something new in prompting this week. I didn’t expect it. And I am absolutely delighted.

This is a technique that lets you quickly and easily create what are effectively macro shortcuts for prompts in ChatGPT. And yes, they really work. And yes, they are as simple as typing a wake string or word of some kind into ChatGPT.

And that’s it. You don’t have to call the whole prompt. ChatGPT just knows it.

And best of all it’s easy to use this across chats (ChatGPT does it automatically) and it’s super easy to share this with colleagues, so teams can use it too. I’ll show you how in this post, and I promise you can do this in like 10 minutes, even if you’re a beginner!