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How to Use AI for Fun and Nonsense

Not everything needs a purpose. One of the genuinely delightful discoveries people make with AI is that it is an excellent companion for absurdist humor, silly games, ridiculous hypotheticals, and the kind of playful exchanges that make you laugh out loud. People use it to generate increasingly unhinged jokes, play word games, create fake product reviews for imaginary items, write mock movie trailers for their mundane lives, invent bizarre alternate history scenarios, and simply mess around with language in ways that are entertaining for their own sake. AI has a genuine sense of humor when you invite it out -- and giving yourself permission to use a powerful AI tool for pure entertainment is, it turns out, one of the best things you can do with it.

5 Best Prompts for Fun and Nonsense to Ask Claude or ChatGPT

Copy any prompt below and paste it directly into your AI of choice.

  1. Prompt 01 · Absurdist hypothetical

    "Here is a completely absurd hypothetical: [describe ridiculous scenario]. Take it completely seriously and think through all the implications, logistics, and consequences as if it were a real situation that needed to be planned for."

    Best for: the comedy that comes from AI applying rigorous logic to something fundamentally ridiculous.

  2. Prompt 02 · Make my life sound epic

    "Here is what I did today: [describe your completely ordinary day]. Can you rewrite it as an epic fantasy quest / action movie trailer / nature documentary narrated by David Attenborough / Homeric poem?"

    Best for: instant entertainment from the contrast between mundane reality and dramatic presentation.

  3. Prompt 03 · Invent something ridiculous

    "Invent a fictional [product / company / law / sport / cuisine / religion / country] that is completely absurd but described with total seriousness -- including a name, how it works, its history, and why anyone would want it."

    Best for: collaborative worldbuilding on the wrong end of the plausibility scale.

  4. Prompt 04 · Play a word game

    "Let us play [game: word association where each word must be exactly 7 letters / a story where every sentence starts with the next letter of the alphabet / a conversation where neither of us can use the letter E / one-word-at-a-time story building]. You start."

    Best for: the kind of playful linguistic games that are surprisingly fun and surprisingly hard.

  5. Prompt 05 · Roast something mundane

    "Write a scathing roast of [completely ordinary thing: a parking lot / a Tuesday / a beige cardigan / instant oatmeal / the concept of voicemail]. Go as hard as you can."

    Best for: comedy through the application of genuine effort to something that absolutely does not deserve it.