50 Gemini AI Prompts Ready to Use (Copy & Paste)

Gemini prompts fail for the same reason most AI prompts fail: they name a task and leave every other decision to the model. Make me a picture and Write me an article are requests. A request becomes a prompt when it also specifies the constraints and the shape of the output you want back.

The fifty below are grouped by what you are actually using Google Gemini for: writing, research and analysis, image generation, image editing, and everyday work. Each one names a task, at least one constraint, and a format. Copy them, replace the bracketed parts, and keep the structure.

You can run all of these in Gemini directly, or in Chat Smith, which is mainly useful here because it lets you send the same prompt to a second model and compare the two without retyping anything.

Gemini follows long instructions closely, which is an advantage only if the instructions are worth following. A prompt that specifies the output format returns something usable; one that does not returns a plausible essay you then reformat by hand. The version that works is usually four parts.

• A role or framing - act as an editor, a hostile reviewer, a chief of staff. This narrows the register more efficiently than any adjective can.
• One task, stated narrowly - one job per prompt. Two jobs in one prompt produce a compromise on both.
• At least one constraint - a word count, a thing not to do, a fact to preserve. This is the part almost every weak prompt is missing.
• The output format - a table, a numbered list, two versions side by side, under 400 words. Say it, or you will get prose.

A request looks like this:

Write a blog post about remote work productivity.

The same thing as a prompt:

Act as an editor commissioning a 1,200-word article on remote work productivity, for managers who already work remotely and are not looking for basics. Give me a section outline with an H2 for each section, one line on what each section must accomplish, and a note on what to leave out. Flag any section where I will need a source. Do not write the article.

Same subject, completely different return. Every prompt below is built that way, which is why they are long.

These assume you are writing the thing yourself and want the model doing what it is genuinely good at: structural diagnosis, compression, and arguing against you. Pair them with an AI paragraph generator when you need to widen a section you have already chosen.

1. Commissioning outline

Act as an editor commissioning a 2,000-word explainer on [topic] for readers who know nothing about it. Give me a section-by-section outline with an H2 for each section, one line stating what that section must accomplish, and a note on what to leave out. Flag any section where I will need a source.

2. Voice matching from a sample

Here is a 300-word sample of my writing. Analyse it for sentence-length variance, vocabulary level, use of contractions, and how it handles transitions. Then write 200 new words on [different topic] matching those specific features, and list which features you matched.

3. The unsympathetic first read

Read the draft below as a hostile but fair editor. Give me the three weakest paragraphs, say precisely why each is weak, and rank them by how much fixing would improve the piece. Do not rewrite anything and do not compliment anything.

4. Cutting to length

Reduce the text below to exactly 400 words without removing any argument. Afterwards, tell me what you cut and which single cut you were least comfortable making.

5. Structure diagnosis

Map the argument in the draft below as a numbered list of claims, marking each one as supported, asserted, or assumed. Do not comment on style. I want to see the skeleton, including the places where it does not hold weight.

6. Two openings, opposite strategies

Write two opening paragraphs for an article on [topic]: one that opens on a concrete specific detail, one that opens on the stakes. Both under 80 words. Then tell me which suits a reader arriving from search, and why.

7. Explaining without jargon

Explain [technical concept] to an intelligent adult with no background in the field, in under 250 words, using exactly one analogy. After the explanation, list every term you deliberately avoided and what you used instead.

8. The counter-argument pass

Here is my thesis. Give me the three strongest objections a well-informed sceptic would raise, in their strongest form rather than a straw version. For each, say whether my current draft addresses it and where.

9. Tone shift with a constraint

Rewrite the passage below from formal to conversational. Keep every factual claim, keep the paragraph count identical, and do not add humour or exclamation marks. Show the before and after side by side.

10. Consistency check on a long document

Read the attached document and list every internal inconsistency: contradicted facts, terms defined differently in different places, numbers that do not reconcile, and claims made and then quietly dropped. Cite the location of each.

Ask for the diagnosis before the rewrite. A model that rewrites first produces something fluent, and you lose the chance to see what was actually wrong.

This is where Gemini's long context earns its keep, and it is the group most prompt lists leave out entirely. Every one of these works far better with a document, transcript or dataset attached than without.

11. Document interrogation

Read the attached document and answer only from it. What does it claim, what does it assume without stating, and what question does a careful reader finish with unanswered? Quote the line that supports each of your three answers.

12. Comparing two sources

Compare the two attached documents on [topic]. Produce a table with three columns: where they agree, where they conflict, and where one covers something the other omits entirely. Do not resolve the conflicts, just locate them.

13. Extracting a dataset from prose

Pull every figure, date and named entity from the attached text into a table with columns for value, unit, date, and the source sentence. Mark any figure that is stated imprecisely or has no clear source in the text.

14. Transcript to decisions

From the attached transcript, extract only decisions made and actions assigned, with the owner and any stated deadline. List separately anything that was discussed and left unresolved. Ignore all other discussion.

15. Steelmanning a position

Build the strongest possible case for [position I disagree with], drawing only on arguments its actual proponents make rather than ones you construct. Then list the two strongest objections to that case. Do not tell me which side you favour.

16. Mapping a debate

Summarise the state of the debate on [topic] in under 500 words, structured as: what is broadly agreed, what is actively contested, and what is unresolved for lack of evidence. Name the main positions rather than describing them generically.

17. Assumption audit of a plan

Here is a plan. List every assumption it depends on, ordered from most to least load-bearing. For each of the top three, say what happens to the plan if that assumption turns out to be wrong.

18. Data anomaly check

Review the attached data and identify anomalies: outliers, impossible values, suspicious duplicates, and any column where the distribution suggests a data-entry problem rather than a real pattern. Explain your reasoning for each one.

19. Agreement in plain English

Read the attached agreement and explain in plain English what obligations fall on each party, what triggers termination, and what happens on breach. Flag any clause whose meaning is genuinely ambiguous rather than merely dense. I am not asking for legal advice.

20. Questions before research

I am researching [topic] and know very little about it. Give me the fifteen questions I should be able to answer before I write anything, ordered so that answering the earlier ones makes the later ones tractable.

Add the words answer only from the attached document to any of these. Without it you get a blend of the document and the model's general knowledge, and no way to tell which is which.

An image prompt needs six things: subject, composition, environment, lighting, style, and technical specs. Skip lighting and the output comes back flat no matter how good the rest is. For a much longer set organised by subject, see our Gemini prompts for image collection, or work straight from an AI image generator.

21. Cinematic portrait

A portrait of a woman in her sixties looking out of a train window at night, seen from inside the carriage at eye level. Reflected platform lights as soft bokeh behind her, one warm practical light on her face from above left, deep shadow on the right. 50mm lens at f/2, muted teal and amber grade, realistic skin texture with visible pores, 16:9 crop.

22. Product on marble

A matte black ceramic coffee pot on white Carrara marble, three-quarter angle at table height. One large softbox above and slightly forward, white bounce card below to lift the shadow, black card at left for edge definition. Seamless pale grey background, 100mm macro at f/5.6, commercial product photography, dust-free, no studio reflections in the glaze.

23. Ukiyo-e woodblock

A lone astronaut tending a small bonsai on grey lunar regolith, Earth small on the horizon. Flat unmodulated colour fields, bold black outlines, visible woodgrain texture across the sky, traditional ukiyo-e palette of indigo, pale pink and cream. Vertical composition with an empty band across the top for a title.

24. Architectural interior

A minimalist living room in the wabi-sabi tradition, wide shot from a doorway at standing height. Natural wood, lime plaster walls, one low linen sofa, deliberate imperfection in the surfaces. Soft directional daylight from a large left-hand window with long shadows across the floor, muted palette of clay, oatmeal and grey-green, photorealistic architectural render, 24mm lens with corrected verticals.

25. Neon sign with legible text

A photorealistic vintage neon sign on a dark brick wall. Render the text OPEN LATE in flowing script neon tubing, electric pink with a faint blue outer glow, visible mounting hardware and transformer box. Night scene with the sign as the only light source, glow spilling onto the brick, straight-on framing, lettering sharp and correctly spelled.

26. Flat vector icon set

A set of five unified icons for a wellness app: sleep, breathing, nutrition, movement, water. Modern flat design, consistent 2px stroke weight, circular container for each, pastel palette of sage, clay and cream, no gradients, no drop shadows, arranged in a single row on white with equal spacing.

27. Editorial food flat-lay

Overhead flat-lay of a half-eaten breakfast on a scuffed enamel plate, deliberately imperfect: crumbs, a used knife, a folded napkin off-centre. Hard side light from the right creating defined shadows, textured grey-green backdrop, muted natural colour, 50mm at f/8, editorial food photography rather than advertising, generous negative space top left for a headline.

28. Concept environment

A vast dark cavern containing a bioluminescent tree, roots over stone terraces, waterfalls falling into a glowing pool. Cyan and violet light emitted from the leaves as the only source, one tiny human figure on a ledge for scale, heavy atmospheric haze, fantasy concept art, extreme detail on bark and water, 21:9 cinematic crop.

29. Low-poly 3D scene

A small fishing village beside a calm sea, rendered as low-poly 3D with flat shading and visible polygon edges. Saturated palette of teal, coral and sand, soft ambient occlusion with no hard shadows, three-quarter isometric-leaning perspective, clean white background, no texture noise.

30. Poster with typography

A mid-century travel poster of a ship descending into a redwood forest. Render PLANET X in a wide condensed serif across the top and VISIT THE OUTER RING in small caps at the bottom. Flat screen-print colour separation with slight registration offset, limited palette of teal, cream and burnt orange, vertical 2:3 composition, all lettering crisp and correctly spelled.

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If output comes back flat, change the lighting line before you change anything else. It is the highest-leverage sentence in an image prompt by a wide margin.

One pattern matters here: state what must stay identical before you state what changes. Most bad edits come from the model rebuilding something you never asked it to touch. Our Nano Banana prompts go deeper on consistency work, and Gemini prompts for photo editing covers the retouching cases specifically.

31. Background replacement

Keep the subject in the attached image exactly as is, including the edge detail in the hair. Replace the background with a seamless mid-grey studio backdrop and adjust the subject's edge lighting to match a single softbox from the upper left. Do not alter the pose, skin tone or clothing.

32. Lighting change only

Keep every object, position and framing in the attached photograph identical. Change the lighting from overcast to hard late-afternoon sun coming from the left, with defined shadows and a warmer white balance. Do not add or remove anything.

33. Object removal

Remove the parked van and the roadside sign from the attached street photograph. Reconstruct the road surface, kerb and wall behind them so the repair is undetectable, matching existing texture, grain, shadow direction and colour. Leave the pedestrians and everything else untouched.

34. Character consistency

Using the character in the attached reference, generate three headshots in three emotional states: determined, amused, tired. Keep the face, hair, build and costume identical across all three. Change only the expression, and keep the lighting and background consistent between them.

35. Aspect ratio extension

Extend the attached 16:9 image outward to a 9:16 vertical frame. Generate plausible content above and below that continues the existing scene, matching grain, colour grade and perspective exactly. Do not alter, crop or rescale the original area, and keep the horizon consistent.

36. Object insertion with matched light

In the attached kitchen photograph, insert a vintage chrome toaster on the empty counter to the right of the sink. Match the existing natural light direction, the shadow softness, and the reflection characteristics of the other metal objects in frame. Change nothing else.

37. Selective focus

Take the attached group photograph and reduce the depth of field. Keep the second person from the left sharp and blur everything else progressively by distance, with natural circular bokeh. Match an 85mm lens at f/1.8 and preserve the original colour grade.

38. Seasonal conversion

Convert the attached summer park scene to deep winter. Keep the composition, paths and buildings unchanged. Replace foliage with bare branches, add fresh untouched snow on every horizontal surface, cool the white balance, and flatten the light to overcast with no visible sun.

39. Product mockup placement

Place the attached product box onto a polished marble surface in a studio setting. Match its perspective to a slightly elevated three-quarter camera, generate a correct contact shadow and a soft reflection in the marble, and light it with one large softbox from the upper left. Keep the box artwork and proportions exactly as supplied.

40. Style transfer, structure preserved

Re-render the attached photograph of a quiet street as a thick impasto oil painting: heavy visible brushwork, slightly exaggerated colour, softened edges. Keep the composition, perspective and every structural element in exactly the same position. Do not add or remove any objects.

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Say do not alter anything else explicitly. It reads as redundant and it measurably reduces the amount of collateral redrawing you have to undo.

Less glamorous than the image prompts and probably the group you will use most often. The useful move in every one of these is asking for a decision or a structure rather than for text.

41. Inbox triage

Here are twelve emails. Sort them into: needs a reply from me today, can wait a week, can be delegated, needs no reply. For the first group only, draft a two-sentence reply each. Do not draft anything for the other three groups.

42. Agenda from a mess of notes

Here are the notes from our last three meetings. Build a 45-minute agenda for the next one, ordered so the decisions that unblock other work come first. Include a time budget per item and mark anything that does not need the whole group present.

43. Difficult message, three strategies

I need to tell a client we will miss a deadline by two weeks. Draft three versions: one that leads with the apology, one that leads with the revised plan, one that offers reduced scope on the original date. For each, note what it risks.

44. One-page decision brief

Turn the material below into a one-page decision brief: the decision to be made, the two or three real options, what each costs, what we would have to believe for each to be right, and a recommendation. Keep it under 400 words.

45. Formula with an explanation

I need a spreadsheet formula for [described calculation] across the columns described below. Give me the formula, explain what each part does, and tell me what it will do wrong if a cell is blank or contains text instead of a number.

46. Process documentation

I will describe how I do a recurring task. Write it up as a numbered procedure someone else could follow without asking me questions, and list every point where I made a judgement call that the document needs to explain rather than simply state.

47. Interview preparation

Here is a job description and my CV. Give me the six questions I am most likely to struggle with, and for each, the specific gap in my experience that makes it hard. Do not write my answers for me.

48. Four-week learning plan

I have four weeks and about five hours a week to get functional at [skill]. Build a week-by-week plan with a concrete deliverable at the end of each week, and name what I should deliberately skip at this stage.

49. Feedback rewrite

Here is feedback I drafted for a colleague. Rewrite it so every criticism is tied to a specific observable behaviour and a specific consequence, and remove anything that is about personality rather than action. Keep it the same length or shorter.

50. Weekly review

Act as a chief of staff reviewing my week. Here is my calendar and my task list. Tell me where my stated priorities and my actual time did not match, and then ask me the four questions I am most likely avoiding.

Keep the ones that worked. A prompt that produced a good decision brief once will do it again next quarter, and rewriting it from scratch every time is the most common waste in this whole category.

The reason to run these somewhere with more than one model available is that the same prompt lands differently, and for anything that matters the comparison is quicker than iterating on one model's output. Gemini 3.5 Flash and Gemini 2.5 Pro sit at different points on the speed-versus-depth trade-off, and running the same long document through both tells you more in two minutes than any spec comparison will. The full model list is worth going through once so you know what you actually have available.

One habit worth forming: when a prompt above does not give you what you wanted, do not rewrite the whole thing. Ask the model which part of the instruction was ambiguous. It will usually tell you, and the fix is normally one clause rather than a new prompt.