Invite your heroes into your AI conversations (constantin.glez.de)

A writer describes a practical prompt-engineering technique: ask a large language model to “invite” 1–3 specific experts (real, historical, or fictional) into a conversation so the model responds from the documented perspectives of those figures instead of the generic “average” of its training data. The author used Claude to summon James Clear and Ali Abdaal to design a low-friction YouTube workflow, and credits similar multi-expert sessions for improvements to blog editing, visual design, and creative brainstorming. The method reframes AI as a curated panel of advisors that nudges thinking into new frameworks and actionable plans. Technically, this is a focused role-play prompt that narrows the model’s output to the slice of its training data tied to well-documented thinkers, yielding richer, more specific heuristics and frameworks. Practical guidance: invite 1–3 complementary experts, supply lots of context (transcripts, drafts, constraints), treat suggestions as inspiration not literal truth, and use the AI to moderate the group toward action. The approach is supported by recent research (Harvard Business School’s “The Cybernetic Teammate”) showing generative AI can augment team expertise; caveats include imperfect simulation fidelity and the need to validate critical advice. Try: “Can you invite [expert names] to help me with [problem]?” and iterate from the combined perspectives.