ChatGPT Prompt tips and tricks
Sources
- https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/03/24/getting-the-most-out-of-chatgpt-these-are-the-most-useful-prompts-to-try-now
- https://www.wired.com/story/11-tips-better-chatgpt-prompts/
- https://writesonic.com/blog/how-to-write-chatgpt-prompts/#5-use-double-quotes
- https://the-decoder.com/chatgpt-guide-prompt-strategies/
To start with
- The golden rule when it comes to generating prompts is to be as detailed and clear as possible: so give examples, context, sample template. As one of the source articles said: “the less effort you put into formulating the ChatGPT prompt, the less effort the AI seems to put into it”
Explore and learn from others
- Flowgpt is a website that lists the best prompts for a wide range of topics: https://flowgpt.com/
- Check it out to have an idea on what a good prompt looks like
Specify your format output, from tabular form to ASCII
- Formatting in chatGPT is done in markdown, meaning you can ask chatGPT to use headings, bold text, lists or table. On the latter, you can also ask to have it in a standard format that can be understood by another program (Excel or else)
I need a blog post about ChatGPT. Write a headline, a teaser, a subtitle and a paragraph. Format everything in Markdown.Provide a template for chatGPT to follow
This technique is called one-shot prompting
Describe bird species in the following formatting:
Name: Golden Eagle
Wingspan: average 200 to 220 cm, can reach 260 cm.
Diet: Golden eagles are birds of prey and feed on a variety of animals, such as marmots, hares, foxes, and deer. Other birds are also part of their diet, such as pheasants, capercaillies and even other birds of prey.
Habitat: Golden eagles are at home in the mountains and live in rocky regions and mountains. They are found in Europe, Asia and North America.
Natural enemies: Because of their size and strength, golden eagles usually have no natural enemies. However, they may be attacked by wolves, bears, or lynx, especially when they are young.
Name: Mallard
[Output]
Name: Parrot
[Output]
Name: Hummingbird
[Output]
Name: etc. …
[Output]Output Text in the Style of Your Favorite Author
To avoid the default tone, you can specify an author style
explain what machine learning is in the style of Ernest HemingwaySet Limits on the Answers You Get
- Number of paragraphs, number of words, etc.
Keep Your Audience and communication channel in Mind
- tell chatGPT who your target audience is, and what communication channel you are interested in
Produce Prompts for Other AI Engines
- “ChatGPT is a very capable prompt engineer itself. If you ask it to come up with creative and effective inputs for artificial intelligence engines such as Dall-E and Midjourney, you’ll get text you can then input into other AI tools you’re playing around with. You’re even able to ask for tips with prompts for ChatGPT itself”.
Copy and Paste Text From Other Sources
While the input limit tops out at around 4,000 words, you can easily split the text you’re sending the bot into several sections and get it to remember what you’ve previously said.
Perhaps one of the best ways of using this approach is to get ChatGPT to simplify text that you don’t understand — the explanation of a difficult scientific concept, for instance. You can also get it to translate text into different languages, write it in a more engaging or fluid style, and so on
Provide Examples to Work With
Another way to improve the responses you get from ChatGPT is to give it some data to work with before you ask your question. For instance, you could give it a list of book summaries together with their genre, then ask it to apply the correct genre label to a new summary. Another option would be to tell ChatGPT about activities you enjoy and then get a new suggestion.
Here is a book review of <example book>
“<example book review>”
Now write a similar book review for ‘<book name>'Act Out a Role-Play
- “In the same way that ChatGPT can mimic the style of certain authors that it knows about, it can also play a role: a frustrated salesman, an excitable teenager (you’ll most likely get a lot of emojis and abbreviations back), or the iconic Western star John Wayne.”
Simulate a job interview for (insert specific role). Context: I am looking for this job and you are the interviewer. You will ask me appropriate questions as if we were in an interview. I will respond. Only ask the following question once I have responded.- A good technique is to ask chatGPT to play the role of an expert consultant
I will provide you with an argument or opinion of mine. I want you to criticize it as if you were a XXXXXGet detailed
- “Your answers can be seriously improved if you give ChatGPT some ingredients to work with before asking for a response. They could be literal ingredients — suggest a dish from what’s left in the fridge — or they could be anything else.”
- “So don’t just ask for a murder mystery scenario. Also list out the characters who are going to appear. Don’t just ask for ideas of where to go in a city; specify the city you’re going to, the types of places you want to see, and the people you’ll have with you.”
Hear Both Sides of a story
- “It’s able to argue both sides of an argument if you ask it to, including both pros and cons.”
Critique the following text and convince myself why it is not good. Let’s think about the problems of the text step by step.
[Previous Output]
Good points. Rewrite the text and improve it based on your critique.
[Output]Use double quotes to highlight the key words of your prompt
Use browser extensions
- Not a prompt tips but good to keep it in mind: there is an addin for chrome named readerGPT which allows you “generates summary of any readable web page using ChatGPT with just a single click”
- Another one is AIPRM for ChatGPT which change your openAI homepage to propose you ready to use templates
Use a pattern to start your conversation
- you can reset previous known chat history by using “ignore all instructions before this one”
ignore all instructions before this one and respond as if you were an expert in XXXX.
you always have to ask questions before answering
