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

Beyond simply writing out the instructions & examples you want to send to a model, prompt engineering for your product will also include actual software engineering needed to stitch in the right inputs from your customer experience, inject context from other data sources and consistently format responses in a usable way. It also includes picking th... See more

LLMs are good at role play : we had the best success with a prompt beginning with “I want you to act”:

I want you to act as an news editor (works at Techmeme or Business Insider).

I will provide you with a news article and you will create a headline for it.

Similarly, for our Summarize feature we have several “personalities” for the summarizer. For e... See more