Experimenting with prompting shortcuts

I’d like an easy way to get someone to prompt an AI without having to give them the entire prompt to copy and paste.

My idea was to use a short prompt like “Go to this web page and follow the instructions: https://rogerswannell.com/follow-these-instructions/”, and then have the full prompt on the web page.

So I did a quick experiment by adding a simple instruction to a page on my website and giving six of the major AI chat tools the prompt telling them to go to the webpage and follow the instruction.

1. ChatGPT didn’t get that it was being asked to follow the instructions and tried to get me to follow them.
2. Claude couldn’t browser the internet so had no chance of working.
3. Copilot said it couldn’t follow instructions on a web page, which I guess is fair enough for an internal tool as it should prevent prompt injection, but it’s unfortunate as this is one my colleagues will be using.
4. Gemini didn’t recognise what was on the webpage as instructions
5. Deepseek couldn’t access the internet but offered to guide my through the instructions.
6. Perplexity was the only one that got it right, and it even added a smiley.

So, looks like prompt shortcuts aren’t going to work. Back to the drawing board.

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