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Retrieve more than 10000 results

This is real work, not a feature someone invented — it comes from real job ads and real questions people asked. Below are four ready AI prompts: get it done, make it easy for the next person to say yes to, work out the right move when you are stuck, and stop it coming back.

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The same task, four prompts

today's deadline · the next reviewer · the stuck moment · the pattern
AExecute — do the immediate taskPull all transactions from the 'orders-2023-q4' index where the 'status' is 'failed' for the…+
Pull all transactions from the 'orders-2023-q4' index where the 'status' is 'failed' for the last week. I need more than 10,000 results if they exist, to analyze the failure patterns for the team meeting on Monday.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
BImprove — make it easier to acceptI need to get all the 'login-attempts' from yesterday for the security team's forensic…+
I need to get all the 'login-attempts' from yesterday for the security team's forensic analysis. Make sure we capture every single event, even if it's over 10,000, so they have a complete picture. Prioritize completeness over speed for this one.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
CDecide — diagnose the stuck momentThe fraud detection team needs every single transaction from the last month for their new…+
The fraud detection team needs every single transaction from the last month for a new model, but I'm worried about hitting the 10,000 result limit and missing critical data.
The fraud detection team needs every single transaction from the last month for their new model, but I'm worried about hitting the default result limit and missing critical data. If they don't get all of it, their model will be flawed, and we could miss real fraud. I can't tell them we just can't get that much data. What's the best way to retrieve all of it, ensuring no data is omitted, even if it's millions of records?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
DBecome — change the patternI keep running into the 10,000 result limit when I'm debugging or trying to generate…+
I frequently run into the 10,000 result limit when debugging or generating reports, forcing me to run multiple queries or miss data.
I keep running into the 10,000 result limit when I'm debugging or trying to generate comprehensive reports for the business teams. It means I'm either missing data or spending extra time stitching together partial results. What habit should I change to consistently retrieve all necessary data without hitting arbitrary limits and ensure my analysis is always complete?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?

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Every task here was seen in the real world. Someone doing the job named it, a real job ad asked for it, or a lot of people asked about it online.

If nothing real showed a task, it is not on the page. That is the whole rule.

They are the same job approached four ways, because what you need depends on where you are.

Get it done today. Make it easy for the next person to say yes to. Work out the right move when you are stuck. Learn the pattern so the job stops coming back.

For most of these jobs it can carry the heavy thinking - draft it, sort it, check it, rehearse it with you.

It cannot sit in your chair, take the blame when a number is wrong, or notice what nobody wrote down. Let it do the first 80%. Keep the last 20% that is truly yours.

No. Copy any prompt and paste it into the AI you already use. No account, no score, no wall in the way.

Any of them. The prompts describe the work rather than naming a product, so they are not tied to one assistant.

That is also why they keep working when you switch.

Change it freely. Every prompt is a starting line, not a rule.

Put in your real numbers, your real names and your real deadline. The more you make it yours, the better the answer comes back.

The tasks come from real job ads, published job data and the questions people ask in public forums.

The steps come from Elasticsearch's own documentation, with practitioner sources for the traps the manual does not mention.

Push once. Ask it to sharpen the weakest part and to say what it assumed.

Most wrong answers come from a missing detail rather than a bad prompt - tell it the thing it could not know.