(Image credit: Shutterstock) What started as a hobby of "jailbreaking" better performance out of AI has officially evolved into an obsession. I really enjoy discovering a workaround — finding the exact phrasing that stops a chatbot from getting "lazy" or hallucinating. After optimizing my workflow with ChatGPT and Claude , I set my sights on Gemini. Together, we’ve refined 10 prompts that tackle everything from safety-filter friction to logical leaps, ensuring the AI works for you, not against you. Asking Gemini to point out its faults (Image credit: Shutterstock) To find the best ways to optimize Google Gemini, I went straight to the source. I asked the chatbot to identify its own biggest flaws — including hallucinations, logical lapses and restrictive filtering — and generate the prompts needed to fix them. Here are the 10 prompts Gemini suggested to improve its own performance. Search the web for the latest [topic] documentation/news from the last 30 days.…