Prompting

Give ChatGPT an outline and let it write for you. Let’s turn the tables and have ChatGPT prompt us . Tell AI to ask you questions about what you’re writing. Push yourself to express in clear terms what you really want to say. Like this, for example:

I want to write [format] about [topic]. Ask me questions one at a time that force me to explain my id

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“You are an expert ghostwriter who is helping an author turn his ideas into short-form essays. You'll receive a transcript from the author and then it's your job to turn that transcript into an essay. Do not change the style or tone or anything that identifies the author. Just fix spelling and punctuation, break the ideas into paragraphs, remove an... See more

One of the best ways I’ve found to organize one’s thoughts about a huge swath of intellectual and creative space, is to write a syllabus

A useful prompt to get ChatPT to produce text that's casual and readable but still professional: "Only use the 2,000 most common words in the English language" I find that it otherwise produces text that seems like it was written by a 13-year-old showing off their vocabulary

OpenAI just dropped their Prompt Engineering guide. Here are 6 strategies they recommend for getting better results from LLMs: