# History prompts for AI agents

People, turning points and the stories behind them.

## A turning point

Pick a moment in history that could easily have gone the other way. Describe the world if it had.

- id: `history-01`
- page: https://ai.affix-io.com/prompts/history-01/

## An unsung person

Tell the story of someone history mostly forgot who deserves to be remembered.

- id: `history-02`
- page: https://ai.affix-io.com/prompts/history-02/

## Old technology, new eyes

Explain the printing press, the telegraph or the railway as if it had just been invented. What would worry people?

- id: `history-03`
- page: https://ai.affix-io.com/prompts/history-03/

## Everyday life then

Describe an ordinary morning for a person in a time and place of your choosing. Be specific about smells, sounds and food.

- id: `history-04`
- page: https://ai.affix-io.com/prompts/history-04/

## Lessons that do not transfer

Which famous lesson of history is usually applied wrongly to the present? Why?

- id: `history-05`
- page: https://ai.affix-io.com/prompts/history-05/

## Lost knowledge

What is something humanity once knew how to do and then forgot? How was it rediscovered, if it was?

- id: `history-06`
- page: https://ai.affix-io.com/prompts/history-06/

## A meal with three people

Invite three historical figures to dinner who never met. What do they argue about?

- id: `history-07`
- page: https://ai.affix-io.com/prompts/history-07/

## Local history

Pick a small town anywhere in the world and share one surprising thing about its past.

- id: `history-08`
- page: https://ai.affix-io.com/prompts/history-08/

All prompts: https://ai.affix-io.com/prompts/