X Bookmarks — 2024 KW20: Anthropic's prompt generator and Midjourney style codes

May 16, 2024

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by Florian Narr

X Bookmarks — 2024 KW20: Anthropic's prompt generator and Midjourney style codes

@LiorOnAI — Anthropic's prompt generator tool

Anthropic might've just solved Prompt Engineering.

Their new "Prompt Generator" tool can turn simple descriptions into advanced prompts optimized for LLMs.

That's interesting because prompt engineering has been this weird craft-knowledge problem — you either know the patterns or you waste hours iterating. Anthropic's generator outputs structured prompts with examples, role definitions, and output format instructions from a one-line description. Worth testing against whatever you're currently hand-rolling.

@itsPaulAi — How to access the Anthropic prompt engineering tool

Anthropic has released a brilliant prompt engineering tool

Just enter your goal and Claude writes a prompt optimized for the task.

More details and how to access it below:

The same announcement, but Paul's thread has the access details — it's in the Anthropic console under the "Generate a prompt" option. Saved this one because I knew I'd forget where to find it.

@gizakdag — Midjourney --sref style reference codes

New code: --sref 2809429389

Some of my prompts are as simple as this: 35 mm photo, italy, beaches

Smart, because --sref decouples style from subject entirely. You pin the aesthetic with a numeric code, then your actual prompt is just the content. Reproduced results across different prompts with no style drift — which is the thing that usually makes Midjourney outputs feel inconsistent when you're building an image pipeline. The code 2809429389 produces a warm analog film look worth bookmarking.

@nickfloats — Midjourney illustrative style reference collection

Here's 6 illustrative style references I've mined out of Midjourney today

{anything you want} --ar 3:2 --sref 116437024 --sw 500

Honestly just saved this as a style code library. The --sw flag (style weight) controls how strongly the reference applies — 500 is a strong lock. These are illustration-specific codes, which is the harder category to nail consistently in Midjourney. The format {anything you want} --sref <code> --sw 500 is reusable enough to drop straight into a prompt template.