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11 TIPS TO TAKE YOUR

ChatGPT
Prompts to the
Next Level

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1. Get Your Answers in Tabular Form

ChatGPT can give you responses in the form of a table if you


ask. This is particularly helpful for getting information or
creative ideas.

For example, you could tabulate meal ideas and ingredients,


or game ideas and equipment, or the days of the week and
how they’re said in a few different languages.

Using follow-up prompts and natural language, you can


have ChatGPT make changes to the tables its drawn and
even produce them in a standard format that can be
understood by another program (such as Microsoft Excel).

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2. Output Text in the Style of Your Favorite
Author

With some careful prompting, you can get ChatGPT out of its
rather dull, matter-of-fact, default tone and into something
much more interesting—such as the style of your favorite
author, perhaps.

You could go for the searing simplicity of an Ernest


Hemingway or Raymond Carver story, for instance, or the
lyrical rhythm of a Shakespearean play, or the density of a
Dickens novel.

The end results don’t come close to the genius of the actual
authors themselves, but it’s another way of being more
creative with the output you get.

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3. Set Limits on the Answers You Get

ChatGPT can really impress when it’s given restrictions to


work inside, so don’t be shy when it comes to telling the bot
to limit its responses to a certain number of words or a
certain number of paragraphs.

It could be everything from condensing the information in


four paragraphs down into one, or even asking for answers
with words of seven characters or fewer (just to keep it
simple).

If ChatGPT doesn’t follow your responses properly, you can


correct it, and it’ll try again.

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4. Keep Your Audience in Mind

Another way of tweaking the way that ChatGPT responds to


you is to tell it who its audience is.

You might have seen the videos in which complex subjects


are explained to people with different levels of
understanding, and this works in a similar way.

For example, you can tell ChatGPT that you are speaking to a
bunch of 10-year-olds or to an audience of business
entrepreneurs and it will respond accordingly.

It works well for generating multiple outputs along the same


theme.

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5. 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.

When it comes to generating prompts, the more detailed


and specific you are about what you’re looking for the
better:

You can get the chatbot to extend and add more detail to
your sentences, you can get it to role-play as a prompt
generator for a specific AI tool, and you can tell it to
refine its answers as you add more and more
information.
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6. Get Your Outputs in the Form of ASCII Art

While ChatGPT is based around text, you can get it to


produce pictures of a sort by asking for ASCII art.

That’s the art made up of characters and symbols rather


than colors. It won’t win you any prizes, but it’s pretty fun to
play around with.

The usual ChatGPT rules apply, in that the more specific you
are the better, and you can get the bot to add new elements
and take elements away as you go.

Remember the limitations of the ASCII art format though—


this isn’t a full-blown image editor.

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7. Copy and Paste Text From Other Sources

You don’t have to do all the typing yourself when it comes to


ChatGPT. Copy and paste is your friend, and there’s no
problem with pasting in 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.

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8. 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.

There’s no magic combination of words you have to use here.


Just use natural language as always, and ChatGPT will
understand what you’re getting at.

Specify that you’re providing examples at the start of your


prompt, then tell the bot that you want a response with those
examples in mind.
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9. 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.

The types of roles you can play around with are almost
endless.

These prompts might not score highly in terms of practical


applications, but they’re definitely a useful insight into the
potential of these AI chatbots.

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10. Get Answers That Are More Than the Sum
of Their Parts

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.

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11. Hear Both Sides of a Debate

You’ve no doubt noticed how binary arguments have tended


to get online in recent years, so get the help of ChatGPT to
add some gray in between the black and white.

It’s able to argue both sides of an argument if you ask it to,


including both pros and cons.

From politics and philosophy to sports and the arts, ChatGPT


is able to sit on the fence quite impressively—not in a vague
way, but in a way that can help you understand issues from
multiple perspectives.

CREDIT:WIRED.COM

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