New: a library of prompts! (get paid to contribute!)
Hey! Nathan here, founder and CEO of Lex (https://lex.page), the modern writing platform with AI editing tools built in.
Two big updates for you this week + a quick question.
1. A library of prompts
AI is only as useful as the prompt you give it. The problem is, it takes effort, expertise, and imagination to write a good one.
That’s why users who try our pre-written prompts are more than twice as likely to continue using Lex after 2 months than users who only use the vanilla Ask Lex chat input.
However, our assortment of prompts has been limited and generic.
Today that changes!
Introducing: the Lex Prompt Library
👉 https://lex.page/prompt-library 👈
“Hold on, what’s a prompt?”
Fair question! Generally speaking, “prompts” are the text inputs you feed into generative AI models. They determine the response. In Lex, our pre-written prompts (e.g. “detect weak arguments”) are sent along with the text of your document, so the AI can give you personalized writing advice.
But the details matter: a better prompt makes a huge difference on the quality of the response. The reason why is interesting.
AI models are like people, in the sense that they do a much better job when you give them specific instructions to follow. For example let’s say you want to improve a business strategy memo. If you just give the AI your memo and ask it how it could be improved, it will give an OK response. But it will give a wildly more useful response if the prompt had a detailed list of mistakes people make in strategy memos. (And it will give an even better response if the prompt was written specifically for your industry.)
This is a pretty exciting thing to contemplate. One can imagine an infinite variety of prompts that might be useful across all the various types of writing. That’s why we’re so excited about our new Prompt Library.
Of course what we have now is just a tiny start, but our goal is to grow it into the biggest and best prompt library for writers in the whole world, to help everyone realize their dreams through writing.
Which leads me to our second update…
2. Prompt creator program
If you’re an expert on any type of writing—whether it’s sales emails, speculative fiction, or scholarly articles—we hope you’ll consider contributing prompts to the newly established Lex prompt library.
Why join?
You’ll get paid, it’s easy, you’ll learn a lot, and have fun!
When I say it’s easy I’m not kidding. You can write a good prompt in an afternoon, we’ll promote it in Lex, and people all over the world can keep using it for months, maybe years. If the program goes well, you can keep earning money each month from that prompt without doing any extra work.
If you’d like to learn more details about the program, click here. To register, click here.
The deadline to register for the first cohort is Monday, September 16th.
(That may seem soon, but it’s a super quick application. We just need your email, general idea of what kind of prompts you’d contribute, and links to any online presence.)
Interested?
3. A quick question
What kind of prompts would you like to see added to the library? Hit reply or submit here and we’ll do our best to make it happen!
That’s it!
As always, we welcome any and all feedback, questions, or requests of any kind. Thank you for your time and your support, it means the world to us.
Nathan Baschez
—CEO of Lex
PS—If you’re curious to learn more Lex Pro or Lex Team, click here for more info.