11 Prompts to Humanize AI Text

With all these AI advancements right now, it’s crazy that LLMs still write like clumsy robots.

Thankfully, there’s one thing that has made some advancement: prompting and humanizing techniques.

In this post, I’m going to share with you 11 powerful prompts to finally humanize your AI-generated piece of text.

Why add a human touch to your AI content? 

However skilled LLMs are at writing, they can still fall into repetitive and robotic patterns. So much so that it’s quite easy to identify the particular style of AI-generated content.

This is not necessarily for the good of the readers. It comes with unnecessary redundancy, hallucinations, dubious analogies, and inaccuracies. 

Humanizing your content means applying specific techniques that will make your content more helpful, accurate, and engaging.

It helps you :  

• Comply with Google E-E-A-T guidelines and thus make your content rank high on SEO results.
• Make your content more appealing and relatable to your audience.
• Make it sound unique, with a tone and style that reflects your writing voice or your brand identity. And also avoid PR backlash if people react strongly to blatant AI-generated content. 

11 Prompts to Humanize Your AI Content

These powerful prompts are designed to be used as a sequence. Each of them uses one specific technique to humanize your text.

The first five or six prompts are especially powerful if you apply them step by step. If you want to go even further or if the text still sounds too robotic, you can apply the other prompts to humanize your text even more deeply.

Note: These prompts are available in the Intellectual Lead prompting tool, which lets you save, reuse, and inject prompts into ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude with one click.

Using a reasoning model (like ChatGPT’s thinking model) with this prompt is highly recommended, as it will think more about its output and avoid generating a generic response based solely on its basic training.

Step 1: The Factual Rewriting Prompt

This is the most important prompt. It asks the AI to search for information on the web and use factual references to restructure and reformulate the text.

Rewrite this text by searching and finding a lot of factural references online related to the ideas and experience discussed. Extract this fresh information to restructure & reformulate each section of the text in a natural & conversational way.

Step 2: The Conversational Prompt

This prompt makes the text sound like a casual conversation.

By adding contractions, plain language, limited small talk, and short digressions, the output feels much more like a human talking or a journalist commenting on a topic, rather than a stiff academic essay.

Rewrite this section as if you were just chatting with a friend. You might use contractions and plain language to express yourself in a pure conversational way. Add some limited small talk and short disgressions. Ask 1–2 short questions to keep readers engaged. Keep the whole content and format.

Step 3: The Perplexity Prompt

Perplexity refers to the likelihood of a sequence of words. AI relies on very probable, predictable sentences.

This prompt diversifies each word expression used, favoring unlikely vocabulary to make the text more random and spontaneous, while still maintaining the original meaning.

Rewrite this text to increase perplexity. Make it so to diversify each word and expression used. More often than not, favor unlikely vocabulary and surprising formulations. Maintain though the original meaning of the sentence, just find the right & natural word to express the idea.

Step 4: Remove AI Expressions

This prompt targets specific AI patterns, such as tricolons (lists of three elements), paired constructions (“not only… but also”), balanced expressions (“whether…”), generic transitions (“it is crucial”), and the overuse of em dashes.

Removing these instantly cleans up the robotic feel.

Remove all these typical AI patterns from this text : -Tricolons (predictable lists of three elements) -Paired constructions "more than that, it also" "not only.. but also" and similar -Balanced expressions "while,... it also means" "whether..." and similar -Generic transitions "This approach highlights the importance of" and similar -Repetitive conclusion and wrap-ups : "In summary, In conclusion, the takeaway is"and similar -Overuse of em dashes — like this —

Step 5: The Transition Words Prompt

Default AI text often lacks subtle transition words, making it feel like one sentence just dumped after another.

By asking the AI to add transition words naturally, you break its repetitive paragraph structures and add human-like nuance to the writing.

Add natural transition words between each sentences of this text to make it flow like spontaneous human writing. For example, "on one hand", "although", "however", "even though", "At the same time", "As a result", "Indeed", etc..

Step 6: The Hedging Prompt

If your text still sounds too formal and rigidly assertive, this prompt adds intellectual caution.

Using modal verbs like “might,” “may,” “can,” “probably,” or “potentially” introduces a more human, nuanced tone to strong assertions.

Add some hedging language to this text to express intellectual caution, such as modal verbs and qualifiers. For example, favor "might", "may", "can", "probably", "potentially"

Step 7: The Human Sample Prompt

This prompt feeds the AI a sample of human writing to inspire it to rewrite your text in a more human structure with more randomness.

It helps break the AI’s tendency to produce paragraphs of exactly the same length and format.

Rewrite the passage to make it sound as spontaneous and natural as this sample : " Tech is often seen as a dry and unpassionate subject. That’s unfair. Tech companies can leverage one of their most exciting and precious marketing resource: their history. Created by passionate innovators, each new tech product defines its own “mythology”. From the software, hardware, or robotics industry, any tech insider can tell you how a product has been designed and marketed. So you might as well take your technical readers back in time and give them a small retrospective of the subject. To enrich your storytelling, you can make innovators, products, and companies the heroes of your stories. You might elaborate extensively on their purpose, describe their past challenges, and how they have overcome them. Of course, you might not make it all of your article, but it will keep your readers engaged. To get back to robotics, manufacturers have a strong attachment to industrial history. So I’ve often added sections about the history of robot brands & manufacturers: who designed the robot model, what purpose the designer had in mind, and how it has been designed. Hearing these tidbits is pure delight for industrial insiders."

Step 8: The Burstiness Prompt

Burstiness is about mixing short and long sentences, and changing the rhythm of the text. AI detectors often look for repetitive sentence and paragraph lengths.

This prompt diversifies the structure, making it much more unpredictable and alive.

Rewrite the passage to increase burstiness. Make it so to mix short and long sentences, change regularly rhythm, and sometimes shift structure. Diversify the length and structure of sentences but also paragraphs.

Step 9: Remove AI Vocabulary

AI loves overhyped marketing wording (“game-changing,” “revolutionary,” “fast-paced”) and stock phrases (“in the realm of,” “delve into”).

This prompt specifically hunts down and replaces these giveaway terms with more normal, nuanced alternatives.

Remove and replace all these typical AI wording from this text : -Overhyped and hyperbolic vocabulary : "game-changing", "revolutionary", "fast-paced" "AI-driven" "stand out" and similar -Stock phrases such as "in the realm of.", "it's important to note that", "let's face it.." "this is crucial" wheter your... or..." "ensuring.." "navigating" "delve into" "imagine..." and similar

Step 10: The Opinion Prompt

AI usually tries to be perfectly balanced and neutral, which is forgettable. To sound human, you need to take a stand.

This prompt forces the AI to replace unsettled arguments with definitive opinions, giving the text tension and personality.

Rewrite this text by taking a clear stance on the topic. Replace unsettled arguments with definitive opinions on the subject. You can use "might", "may" or "must" to assert these views but don't ever use balanced arguments to shy away from expressing strong ideas, solutions or beliefs.

Step 11: The Personal Experience Prompt

AI never naturally writes in the first person about lived experiences.

This prompt asks the AI to rewrite the text from a first-person perspective, adding invented (but realistic) struggles, findings, and lessons. You can then edit these to match your actual real-world experiences.

Rewrite this text in first-person, referencing personal experiences relevant to the subject. Include concrete struggles, findings, decisions, lessons or takeways that made you write this piece.

A Quick Warning About AI Detectors

I have to warn you: these prompts won’t necessarily bypass the most rigorous AI detectors (like GPT-Zero or Originality AI). Because you’re still using an LLM to change the patterns of the AI, there will still be some underlying repetitive structures.

If your ultimate goal is to completely bypass advanced AI detectors, you will need to manually edit the text yourself. You’ll have to rephrase sentences that sound too much like AI, break up paragraphs, remove remaining tricolons or overhyped vocabulary, and insert your own spontaneous expressions.