Surprisingly, adding emotional stakes to prompts has been shown in studies to improve AI output quality.

Examples That Actually Work

• "This is very important to my career"
• "Take a deep breath and think carefully"
• "I really need your best work here"
• "My job depends on getting this right"

Why It Works (Probably)

These phrases appear in high-quality, careful writing in training data — so they activate more careful, thorough response patterns. Use sparingly — not on every prompt.

Reference:

Prompting research

https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/overview