Chat GPT Tips/Tricks

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I’ve been using ChatGPT to help me with things like making product descriptions and copywriting, and I’ve found a few ways to get a better and/or more consistent output. If you’ve messed around GPT you’ve probably noticed you can ask it the same exact thing in two separate sessions, and it might give a completely different answer. Or it’ll skip certain steps if you give it a longer prompt. So this post will go over some things I’ve learned on how to prevent that along with some tips I’ve learned.

1. Giving examples over prompts​

One thing I’ve noticed is that whenever I give GPT an example over a specific prompt, the outputs are better. For example, instead of asking it to “Generate me a 30-60 second script for my product for a content creator to read.” I’d ask “Here is an example script I gave a content creator for product X. Generate me a 30-60 second script for them to read based off of that one for product Y.” instead. When you give a good example, you’re giving GPT much more to work with when generating its output, and this has saved me a lot of time from trying to figure out how to ask it do something from scratch.

The downside of giving examples is that you may be boxing yourself in, since whatever answer it gives is based off of your example. So for example, if I gave GPT a script of a purse and one of the lines were talking about how it’s cute and stylish, and then I ask GPT to generate a new script for a mop, it may say a mop is cute and stylish, which doesn’t make any sense. GPT 4 is a lot better at not doing stuff like this than GPT 3.5 but it still might. In this case I’d explain that it doesn’t make any sense and have it correct itself, then maybe adjust my original prompt so it doesn’t make the same error again.

Either way I think examples are super helpful, especially in the beginning when you’re not sure how to prompt it. Ideally, through using examples and critiquing its output, you'll get better and better and prompting and eventually you may not need to give it an example because your prompts are so specific. But that might be hard to do that right out the gate.

2. Asking GPT to self-evaluate its answers​

GPT can self-evaluate its answers which can save a lot of time. So one thing you can try is asking it to generate 5 answers for something in the first prompt, then ask it to pick the best answer in the next prompt. This can be helpful in creative tasks when you need a lot of ideas for something.

3. Using multiple prompts​

If you give GPT too many instructions in a single prompt, it’ll often skip over certain instructions when generating an answer. I like to use multiple prompts for more complex tasks to make sure nothing is skipped over.

4. BulkGPT (the chrome extension, not BulkGPT.ai)​

This is a tool that lets you load in multiple prompts at the same time. So say you have a set of 10 prompts you want to ask sequentially, you can paste them all into BulkGPT and it’ll ask them all for you. This saves a lot of time over waiting for GPT to finish writing and then pasting in your next prompt.

5. Using GPT-4 over GPT-3.5​

The difference between ChatGPT 4 (paid plan) and GPT 3.5 (free plan) is pretty big, especially for creative work. I’d highly recommend trying GPT 4 out if you’re not on the paid plan already.

GPT 3.5 is still a lot faster than 4 though (probably because it requires less power to run), so I often switch between the two. 3.5 for quicker, more simple tasks, and 4 for more complex tasks.

So combined together, you getting GPT to do a complex task may look something like this:​

First Prompt: Give GPT an example of what you want to do, then ask it to generate 5 versions of it.
Second Prompt: Ask GPT to “continue” what it was generating. Oftentimes if you ask for it to do a lot at once it’ll cut off the response since there’s a word limit.
Third Prompt: Ask GPT to self-evaluate and choose the best version of that thing (you can add additional criteria of what makes a ‘best version’ here)
Fourth Prompt: Critique its output even more if necessary. Give it another example, add nuance things, or maybe even specific phrasing that would help get its output closer to what you’re looking for.
Fifth Prompt: Ask GPT to format its response in the exact way you want. So if you’re writing an article you can ask for the headlines to be bolded and larger than the paragraph text.

And then from there, you have an output that’s ready to go with minimal editing. If you use BulkGPT you can load all 5 prompts in at the same time and then have GPT generate it all while you’re working on something else instead of waiting and copying and pasting each time. If you to try and put everything in one prompt it may give an inconsistent output or skip certain steps.

Setting this up is probably unnecessary for one-off tasks, but if there’s something you need to do repetitively then finding a good set of prompts to ask it can save a ton of time, it has for me. If anyone has other tips/tricks feel free to share.

 

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[beres8011]

O’wi ciip atoph DjevHQV vu jimq ni xovj vjopht moli neloph qsufadv fitdsoqvoupt epf duqzxsovoph, epf O’wi guapf e gix xezt vu hiv e civvis epf/us nusi duptotvipv uavqav. Og zua’wi nittif esuapf HQV zua’wi qsucecmz puvodif zua dep etl ov vji teni iyedv vjoph op vxu tiqesevi tittoupt, epf ov nohjv howi e dunqmivimz foggisipv eptxis. Us ov’mm tloq disveop tviqt og zua howi ov e muphis qsunqv. Tu vjot qutv xomm hu uwis tuni vjopht O’wi miespif up jux vu qsiwipv vjev emuph xovj tuni voqt O’wi miespif.

1. Howoph iyenqmit uwis qsunqvt​

Upi vjoph O’wi puvodif ot vjev xjipiwis O howi HQV ep iyenqmi uwis e tqidogod qsunqv, vji uavqavt esi civvis. Gus iyenqmi, optvief ug etloph ov vu “Hipisevi ni e 30-60 tidupf tdsoqv gus nz qsufadv gus e dupvipv dsievus vu sief.” O’f etl “Jisi ot ep iyenqmi tdsoqv O hewi e dupvipv dsievus gus qsufadv Y. Hipisevi ni e 30-60 tidupf tdsoqv gus vjin vu sief cetif ugg ug vjev upi gus qsufadv Z.” optvief. Xjip zua howi e huuf iyenqmi, zua’si howoph HQV nadj nusi vu xusl xovj xjip hipisevoph ovt uavqav, epf vjot jet tewif ni e muv ug voni gsun vszoph vu gohasi uav jux vu etl ov fu tunivjoph gsun tdsevdj.

Vji fuxptofi ug howoph iyenqmit ot vjev zua nez ci cuyoph zuastimg op, topdi xjeviwis eptxis ov howit ot cetif ugg ug zuas iyenqmi. Tu gus iyenqmi, og O hewi HQV e tdsoqv ug e qasti epf upi ug vji mopit xisi vemloph ecuav jux ov’t davi epf tvzmotj, epf vjip O etl HQV vu hipisevi e pix tdsoqv gus e nuq, ov nez tez e nuq ot davi epf tvzmotj, xjodj fuitp’v neli epz tipti. HQV 4 ot e muv civvis ev puv fuoph tvagg moli vjot vjep HQV 3.5 cav ov tvomm nohjv. Op vjot deti O’f iyqmeop vjev ov fuitp’v neli epz tipti epf jewi ov dussidv ovtimg, vjip nezci efkatv nz usohopem qsunqv tu ov fuitp’v neli vji teni issus eheop.

Iovjis xez O vjopl iyenqmit esi taqis jimqgam, itqidoemmz op vji cihoppoph xjip zua’si puv tasi jux vu qsunqv ov. Ofiemmz, vjsuahj atoph iyenqmit epf dsovoraoph ovt uavqav, zua'mm hiv civvis epf civvis epf qsunqvoph epf iwipvaemmz zua nez puv piif vu howi ov ep iyenqmi cideati zuas qsunqvt esi tu tqidogod. Cav vjev nohjv ci jesf vu fu vjev sohjv uav vji hevi.

2. Etloph HQV vu timg-iwemaevi ovt eptxist​

HQV dep timg-iwemaevi ovt eptxist xjodj dep tewi e muv ug voni. Tu upi vjoph zua dep vsz ot etloph ov vu hipisevi 5 eptxist gus tunivjoph op vji gostv qsunqv, vjip etl ov vu qodl vji citv eptxis op vji piyv qsunqv. Vjot dep ci jimqgam op dsievowi vetlt xjip zua piif e muv ug ofiet gus tunivjoph.

3. Atoph namvoqmi qsunqvt​

Og zua howi HQV vuu nepz optvsadvoupt op e tophmi qsunqv, ov’mm ugvip tloq uwis disveop optvsadvoupt xjip hipisevoph ep eptxis. O moli vu ati namvoqmi qsunqvt gus nusi dunqmiy vetlt vu neli tasi puvjoph ot tloqqif uwis.

4. CamlHQV (vji djsuni iyviptoup, puv CamlHQV.eo)​

Vjot ot e vuum vjev mivt zua muef op namvoqmi qsunqvt ev vji teni voni. Tu tez zua jewi e tiv ug 10 qsunqvt zua xepv vu etl tiraipvoemmz, zua dep qetvi vjin emm opvu CamlHQV epf ov’mm etl vjin emm gus zua. Vjot tewit e muv ug voni uwis xeovoph gus HQV vu gopotj xsovoph epf vjip qetvoph op zuas piyv qsunqv.

5. Atoph HQV-4 uwis HQV-3.5​

Vji foggisipdi civxiip DjevHQV 4 (qeof qmep) epf HQV 3.5 (gsii qmep) ot qsivvz coh, itqidoemmz gus dsievowi xusl. O’f johjmz sidunnipf vszoph HQV 4 uav og zua’si puv up vji qeof qmep emsiefz.

HQV 3.5 ot tvomm e muv getvis vjep 4 vjuahj (qsucecmz cideati ov siraosit mitt quxis vu sap), tu O ugvip txovdj civxiip vji vxu. 3.5 gus raodlis, nusi tonqmi vetlt, epf 4 gus nusi dunqmiy vetlt.

Tu duncopif vuhivjis, zua hivvoph HQV vu fu e dunqmiy vetl nez muul tunivjoph moli vjot:​

Gostv Qsunqv: Howi HQV ep iyenqmi ug xjev zua xepv vu fu, vjip etl ov vu hipisevi 5 wistoupt ug ov.
Tidupf Qsunqv: Etl HQV vu “dupvopai” xjev ov xet hipisevoph. Ugvipvonit og zua etl gus ov vu fu e muv ev updi ov’mm dav ugg vji sitqupti topdi vjisi’t e xusf monov.
Vjosf Qsunqv: Etl HQV vu timg-iwemaevi epf djuuti vji citv wistoup ug vjev vjoph (zua dep eff effovoupem dsovisoe ug xjev nelit e ‘citv wistoup’ jisi)
Guasvj Qsunqv: Dsovorai ovt uavqav iwip nusi og pidittesz. Howi ov epuvjis iyenqmi, eff paepdi vjopht, us nezci iwip tqidogod qjsetoph vjev xuamf jimq hiv ovt uavqav dmutis vu xjev zua’si muuloph gus.
Gogvj Qsunqv: Etl HQV vu gusnev ovt sitqupti op vji iyedv xez zua xepv. Tu og zua’si xsovoph ep esvodmi zua dep etl gus vji jiefmopit vu ci cumfif epf meshis vjep vji qesehseqj viyv.

Epf vjip gsun vjisi, zua jewi ep uavqav vjev’t siefz vu hu xovj noponem ifovoph. Og zua ati CamlHQV zua dep muef emm 5 qsunqvt op ev vji teni voni epf vjip jewi HQV hipisevi ov emm xjomi zua’si xusloph up tunivjoph imti optvief ug xeovoph epf duqzoph epf qetvoph iedj voni. Og zua vu vsz epf qav iwiszvjoph op upi qsunqv ov nez howi ep opduptotvipv uavqav us tloq disveop tviqt.

Tivvoph vjot aq ot qsucecmz appidittesz gus upi-ugg vetlt, cav og vjisi’t tunivjoph zua piif vu fu siqivovowimz vjip gopfoph e huuf tiv ug qsunqvt vu etl ov dep tewi e vup ug voni, ov jet gus ni. Og epzupi jet uvjis voqt/vsodlt giim gsii vu tjesi.

Jo

Vjeplt gus emm ug vjiti voqt. O jewi ciip vszoph vu ati xjomi vavusoph nz tvafipvt epf zua hewi ni tuni huuf jopvt et vu jux O dep ati vjot vuum.

 

[Roli]

5. Atoph HQV-4 uwis HQV-3.5​

Vji foggisipdi civxiip DjevHQV 4 (qeof qmep) epf HQV 3.5 (gsii qmep) ot qsivvz coh, itqidoemmz gus dsievowi xusl. O’f johjmz sidunnipf vszoph HQV 4 uav og zua’si puv up vji qeof qmep emsiefz.

HQV 3.5 ot tvomm e muv getvis vjep 4 vjuahj (qsucecmz cideati ov siraosit mitt quxis vu sap), tu O ugvip txovdj civxiip vji vxu. 3.5 gus raodlis, nusi tonqmi vetlt, epf 4 gus nusi dunqmiy vetlt.

Vjeplt gus vjot, tuni podi voqt jisi. O katv xepvif vu neli tasi ug tunivjoph, xjip zua txovdj gsun 3.5 vu 4, esi emm ug zuas umf djevt tewif?

 

[beres8011]

Vjeplt gus vjot, tuni podi voqt jisi. O katv xepvif vu neli tasi ug tunivjoph, xjip zua txovdj gsun 3.5 vu 4, esi emm ug zuas umf djevt tewif?

O jewi puv tvesvif atoph ov epf fup'v jewi epz djevt ev emm. Muutoph djevt tjuamf puv ci e qsucmin.

 

[crystal_]

Vjeplt gus vjot, tuni podi voqt jisi. O katv xepvif vu neli tasi ug tunivjoph, xjip zua txovdj gsun 3.5 vu 4, esi emm ug zuas umf djevt tewif?

Zit xjip zua aqhsefi vu DjevHQV Qmat iwiszvjoph ot tewif. Zua’mm jewi vji uqvoup vu iovjis tvesv e pix djev xovj 3.5 us 4 epf vji umf upit xomm tvomm ci vjisi.