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This is the most important lecture of the course.

Don’t skip it, no matter how experienced you are with ChatGPT.

The Most Basic Use Case

In this lecture, I’ll show you the most basic use case of all: Writing an email.

After this lecture, there will be plenty of exercises.

It is crucial that you complete all of them!

Ready?

💡 This lesson is a part of the ChatGPT for Work course

The course is interactive, if you take it inside the Team-GPT platform.

ChatGPT for Work: The Interactive Course contains:

• 100+ tried and tested prompts
• 100+ exercises
• 100+ extra notes and comments
• 1000s of use cases
• PDFs files for later reference

It is also completely FREE.

Start today and become a ChatGPT expert in less than 7 days!

Taking the First Step

Let’s enter the platform and start a new chat.

I’ll begin with:

‘I want to write an email.

Ask me several clarifying questions to get more context before answering.’

These are the questions that we get.

Let me reply to all of them.

We have crafted a very relevant and specific email that you can see here.

Understanding and Making the Most of ChatGPT

For the remainder of the course, we will learn how to get better answers from ChatGPT.

Until then, I need to make sure you have had at least 10 meaningful conversations with the AI.

Here they are:

1. Write an email
2. Conflict resolution at work
3. How to learn to code
4. Have better sleep
5. Fix frozen phone
6. How to sell a product better
7. What is string theory
8. Write a poem
9. Write an essay
10. Write a report

For all of them you should use the same format:

1. Start with ‘I want to / How to / What is X‘
2. Continue with ‘Ask me several clarifying questions to get more context before answering.‘

During these 10 different conversations, you make the biggest step forward to learning how to use ChatGPT properly.

Learning Resources and Exercises

In this interactive course you will find:

• Exercise templates
• Examples of successful conversations
  • Write an email
  • Conflict resolution at work
  • How to learn to code
  • Have better sleep
  • Fix frozen phone
  • How to sell a product better
  • What is string theory
  • Write a poem
  • Write an essay
  • Write a report
  • 📖 Bonus: How to meditate 🧘
• A bonus chat called ‘Unlimited Exercises Generator’

Ready to take the exercises?

10 ChatGPT Exercises: Complete Them to Master ChatGPT

No matter if you are using Team-GPT, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google Bard, Claude or your own company LLM, please complete these exercises.

They’ll work equally well with any LLM.

Good luck!

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LECTURE RESOURCES: Exercise 1, Exercise 2, Exercise 3, Exercise 4, Exercise 5, Exercise 6, Exercise 7, Exercise 8, Exercise 9, Exercise 10, Bonus: Exercise 11

This isn’t your typical lecture.

We will be exploring ChatGPT, using a bunch of hands-on exercises to get you comfortable and skilled with this amazing tool.

Navigating ChatGPT Exercises with Team-GPT

If you’re using Team-GPT, here’s what to do:

1. Log into your Team-GPT account and look for the exercises. Don’t have an account? No problem! Set up a free account here.
2. To complete the exercise, just click on ‘Copy to your workspace’. This will make a copy of the exercise in your ‘Personal’ chats. That way, you can carry on with this chat in your own private space.

💡 This lesson is a part of the ChatGPT for Work course

The course is interactive, if you take it inside the Team-GPT platform.

ChatGPT for Work: The Interactive Course contains:

• 100+ tried and tested prompts
• 100+ exercises
• 100+ extra notes and comments
• 1000s of use cases
• PDFs files for later reference

It is also completely FREE.

Start today and become a ChatGPT expert in less than 7 days!

Exploring ChatGPT Exercises without Team-GPT

For the interactive learning experience, we recommend using Team-GPT, but if you prefer ChatGPT, feel free to use that instead.

What are the 10 Exercises?

1. Write an email
2. Conflict resolution at work
3. How to learn to code
4. Have better sleep
5. Fix frozen phone
6. How to sell a product better
7. What is string theory
8. Write a poem
9. Write an essay
10. Write a report

For all of them you should use the same format

1. Start with ‘I want to / How to / What is X‘
2. Continue with ‘Ask me several clarifying questions to get more context before answering.‘

Let’s start.

1. Write an email

When you give ChatGPT all the details it needs, it can be really helpful. After you get a draft email from ChatGPT, you can change its length with these options:

• Make shorter
• Make longer
• Set max number of words

Handy Tip: Pretend you’re talking to a ‘personal assistant’ when you chat with ChatGPT. This is a simple but effective way to use ChatGPT.

After trying out several variations, feel free to tweak and blend as you wish. You might find it simpler to do this OUTSIDE of ChatGPT (e.g. Word, Google Sheets, etc.).

And remember: the first answer is never ideal.

Feel free to explore the sample chat I’ve provided for crafting an email right right here.

2. Conflict resolution at work

You can ask ChatGPT all types of questions relating to emotions, relationships, and all type of other advise.

For many months ‘mental health’ was the #1 use case for ChatGPT. This was the leading category for chats people were having with the AI.

It may sound a bit weird but at the end of the day, if this is the leading category, it might be because ChatGPT is quite useful.

But remember: Don’t trust it blindly!

Feel free to explore the sample chat I’ve provided for conflict resolution right here.

3. How to learn to code

For ChatGPT to be helpful, we need to provide enough details.

If you are working on your own, just imagine you are explaining to another person.

NOT to Google. To another person!

One of the biggest mistakes people make is to write questions as if on Google: e.g. ‘learn code data science’.

You need to write whole sentences.

ChatGPT has been trained on conversational data and it expects to have a conversation with you.

The more you ‘converse’, the better the outcomes.

Handy Tip: If you don’t know what to say, ask ChatGPT to ask you questions.

Feel free to explore the sample chat I’ve provided on ‘How to learn to code’ with ChatGPT right here.

4. Have better sleep

AI will greatly benefit many fields. Biotech is one of them. AI will really, really revolutionize the medical field.

Don’t forget that ChatGPT allows for unlimited follow-up questions, offering detailed responses in any topic, like sleep for example.

Feel free to explore the sample chat I’ve provided on ‘Have better sleep’ with ChatGPT right here.

Handy Tip: When you get a numbered list in the CHatGPT response – take advantage of the numbering. Just point to the number on the list and ChatGPT will understand.

5. Fix frozen phone

Everyone has dealt with a frozen phone. You know how annoying it is. It is different for every phone and this information is hard to find.

You can ask for all types of technical issues.

ChatGPT is amazing at customer support.

This is an example of a question which has been asked MILLIONS of times before. And it has been answered millions of times.

This is why, ChatGPT is so good at it.

Remember:

• If a task has been done many times before, ChatGPT is good at it.
• If a task is unique, never done before, ChatGPT cannot help.

Feel free to explore the sample chat I’ve provided for fix frozen right here.

6. How to sell a product better

ChatGPT can be your business coach and help you with many things!

Just dare to ask!

Feel free to explore the sample chat I’ve provided on ‘How to sell a product better’ with ChatGPT right here.

7. What is string theory

ChatGPT is phenomenal when you ask it for overviews.

Whatever concept, theory, idea, philosophy, science or anything else you ask it… it is amazing.

There are a lot of books, papers, and other materials on ‘string theory’ and science in general.

ChatGPT has been trained on all these books and knows more than any single scientist.

Handy Tip: It really matters who is asking this question. Your own background is very important for ChatGPT to understand what kind of phrasing, tone of voice, and output format to use.

Feel free to explore the sample chat I’ve provided for ‘What is string theory’ right here.

8. Write a poem

Whether it’s a humorous rhyme, heartfelt sonnet, or even a playful limerick about your dog, it’s up for the task.

Dive into the sample ‘Write a poem’ chat I’ve prepared here. It’s a fun, short poem for my dog, incl. also pictures of the dog.

9. Write an essay

ChatGPT can write decent starting drafts for essays, but they may require further refinement for an exceptional result. 
However, it provides an extremely good start for whatever you are trying to write.

Note that ChatGPT asked me ‘8. Is there a deadline by which you need to complete this essay?’

The reason for this is that it was trained on conversational data. And it is quite normal for humans to ask this. However, it is a bit weird in this context.

I replied with ‘ASAP’ to keep the conversational vibe. However, this is not a relevant question and you don’t need to answer it.

Handy Tip: Don’t use ‘ASAP’ in your answers to ChatGPT (or whatever else) because this can actually hurt the output!

Feel free to explore the sample chat I’ve provided for ‘Write an essay’ right here.

10. Write a report

Reporting is one of the most repetitive tasks (by definition).

To have daily, weekly, monthly reporting means to perform the same task on a daily, weekly, monthly basis respectively.

Therefore, ChatGPT excels at it!

Remember: ChatGPT cannot do the whole work for you. But it can do most of it.

Feel free to explore the sample chat I’ve provided for ‘Write a report’ right here.

Need more exercises

We have created

In the next lecture, we are going to analyze your first 10 chats.

Good luck!

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80% of learning how to use ChatGPT is to… chat with the GPT models.

If you skipped the exercises, please go back.

Everything you will see from now on assumes you’ve had these conversations.

The Secret to Successful Conversations with ChatGPT

All done? I’m sure you had some great chats. The question is: why were these conversations so successful? What made them different?

Goal-Oriented Conversations: The Key to Effectiveness

Working with ChatGPT is goal-oriented.

In all of these 10 examples, we provided a Goal: I want to write an email, I want to resolve a conflict, learn to code, have better sleep, and so on.

This is the key to talking effectively to ChatGPT. Know what you want to achieve.

The better you understand the final goal, the more meaningful the conversations.

However, saying ‘I want to write an email’ is very generic. I’ve written 1000s of emails and they were all different.

Shaping Your Requests: The Importance of Context

To have ChatGPT write a good email for you, you need to provide Context.

In all 10 (or more) chats that you just had, you have added a lot of Context to your questions.

This was achieved through the simple ‘follow-up prompt’: Ask me several clarifying questions to get more context before answering.

Whenever ChatGPT provides a bad answer, feel free to go back to this first interaction and ask the AI for several clarifying questions.

That’s how you will ensure you’ll never have a bad chat again!

💡 This lesson is a part of the ChatGPT for Work course

The course is interactive, if you take it inside the Team-GPT platform.

ChatGPT for Work: The Interactive Course contains:

• 100+ tried and tested prompts
• 100+ exercises
• 100+ extra notes and comments
• 1000s of use cases
• PDFs files for later reference

It is also completely FREE.

Start today and become a ChatGPT expert in less than 7 days!

Analyzing Your Initial Chats

I have analyzed my first 10 chats and have added comments under each prompt (see ‘Example chats’).

Now it’s your turn. Please revisit your initial 10 chats and analyze them for yourself.

Consider these questions:

1. Did ChatGPT respond well? Consider how accurately and effectively the model understood and responded to your prompts.
2. Overall, were these chats more successful than your usual ones? Compare these interactions with your previous experience.
3. Why were some of the chats much better? Try to identify factors that may have contributed to the success of certain conversations.
4. Were you ambiguous when answering the clarifying questions? Reflect on whether you could have provided clearer responses.
5. What would have happened if you had provided more detail? Consider if additional context or details could have led to more accurate or useful responses.
6. Were the responses succinct or comprehensive? Assess the quality and quantity of the information provided in the responses.

Remember, the goal of this exercise is to improve our mutual understanding and create better chat experiences!

Insightful Examples to Better Understand ChatGPT

Finally, please note in the ‘Example chats’ folder in the Interactive course, I’ve had the same conversations as you.

I have also added my personal comment on each one of them, trying to explain as much as possible.

Upcoming Topics: Goals and Context

In the following lectures will focus on the 2 basic ingredients:

Forming a GOAL and providing great CONTEXT.

Thank you!

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So far in this course, you’ve only had great conversations!
Having good chats with ChatGPT is all about the: Goal and Context.
In this lecture, we will have a bad chat.

Misunderstanding: ChatGPT and the Barcelona Example

I love Barcelona. It is one of my favorite cities in the world. The architecture, the beach, the vibe,
everything is just sublime.

Let me ask ChatGPT: ‘Why is Barcelona so good?’

ChatGPT replied with: Barcelona, more specifically the FOOTBALL CLUB Barcelona.
Wow. So bad.

This has nothing to do with what I wanted…

I wanted to know more about ‘Barcelona the city’. This is a prime example of really bad prompting.

People are guilty of them all the time.

This is also the prime reason why people don’t find ChatGPT useful.

The Need for Context and Goal in Prompting

Let’s try this one more time.
“Why is the city of Barcelona so good? I really love the architecture and urban planning.”

The results are much better, aren’t they? Yes. Because we provided a bit more context.

Can we level this up even more?
Handy Tip: Create 2 separate sections for your prompt. One is context, the other is goal.

The Importance of Detailed Context and Goal Setting

Make sure to always define the goal well.

Prompting is all about explaining what you want to achieve.

If you can WRITE what you want to achieve, then you have much better chances to achieve it.

Train your ability to define clear goals when prompting.

This will help you get better with ChatGPT over time.

Add as many details as you can think of.

💡 This lesson is a part of the ChatGPT for Work course

The course is interactive, if you take it inside the Team-GPT platform.

ChatGPT for Work: The Interactive Course contains:

• 100+ tried and tested prompts
• 100+ exercises
• 100+ extra notes and comments
• 1000s of use cases
• PDFs files for later reference

It is also completely FREE.

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Learning How to Define Goals and Create Context through Exercises

1. Learn a new skill

Handy Tip: When providing the context, you can always use this simple trick: ‘Ask me several clarifying questions to gain more context.’

There are things we do not think about while providing context on our own.

Feel free to explore the whole sample chat I’ve provided on how to learn a new skill right here.

2. Deal with stress

Feel free to explore the sample chat I’ve provided on how to deal with stress right here.

3. Save for retirement

Note that sometimes your GOAL can change a bit because after providing the CONTEXT, you understand the question itself better.

Feel free to explore the sample chat I’ve provided on how to save for retirement right here.

4. Help with Excel formula

Handy Tip: Use ChatGPT. Excel has never been easier!

Feel free to explore the sample chat I’ve provided on how to ask for help with Excel formula right here.

5. Other religions

Sometimes we can define a new Goal -> comparison between different things (in our case – religions).

Comparisons are a great technique for learning new information.

Feel free to explore the sample chat I’ve provided on religions right here.

6. Set up a blog

In this conversation with ChatGPT I used the this prompt which is extremely important: ‘think about this step by step’.

It is one of the most successful prompts ever (proven by research).

It is called ‘Zero-shot chain of thought’. You can read more about it here.

Feel free to explore the sample chat I’ve provided on how to set up a blog right here.

7. Negotiate salary

Feel free to explore the sample chat I’ve provided on how to negotiate salary right here.

8. Train my dog

Feel free to explore the sample chat I’ve provided on how to train a dog right here.

9. Write a social media post

In our example, in terms of context, we have literally COPY-PASTED the whole article (all the context on the topic).

This is actually a very good practice.

Remember: The more context, the better.

You can also provide even more context by providing examples on how you want the result to look like.

We call this ‘prompting by example. You can read more about it here.

Feel free to explore the sample chat I’ve provided on how to write a social media post right here.

10. Compare two cities

Feel free to explore the sample chat I’ve provided on how to compare two cities right here.

Optimal Usage of ChatGPT

Let’s recap:

1. If you use ChatGPT like Google with 5-word questions… you’ll have a bad time.
2. If you provide the context and the goal you are trying to achieve, you’ll get very useful results.

The general rule is: The more information you provide, the better.

Thank you!

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So far, we’ve mentioned many times that prompting is all about Goal and Context.
However, I’m sure you’ve heard about: Personas, too.

Understanding the Importance of Personas in Prompting

A Persona, also called ‘an AI character’ or ‘role’ is a prompting technique where you tell the chat: ‘You are a lawyer’ or ‘You are a doctor’ or ‘You are something else’. Only then you ask your question.

Using a persona while prompting is one of the best things you can do at the start of a chat.

Applying Persona Prompting to Real-Life Situations

Let’s go back to our ‘Why is Barcelona so good’ example and see it in action.

I’ll start the conversation with: ‘You are an architect. Why is Barcelona so good?’

The AI provided a great answer. This was kind of the answer I was looking for.

Why did this work?

Well… We provided an AMAZING context. This is why personas are so great.

The Role of Context in Persona Prompting

Shall we do another one?

In Team-GPT, we’ve got Personas, ready to be used, so I’ll fetch one: the Travel expert.

This persona description is much longer. But length doesn’t really matter. Context does!

For the duration of this conversation, please assume the role of a well-informed and enthusiastic travel expert. Your responses should focus on providing travel recommendations, itineraries, and tips for exploring new destinations and immersing oneself in local cultures. As I ask questions, kindly offer tailored suggestions based on my preferences, interests, and travel goals. Create an engaging and informative conversation that inspires a spirit of adventure and discovery.

If you understand, please reply only with: ‘Yes. Let’s go!’

Is the extra text bringing extra context? Not really sure but the general rule was: ‘The more, the better”

💡 This lesson is a part of the ChatGPT for Work course

The course is interactive, if you take it inside the Team-GPT platform.

ChatGPT for Work: The Interactive Course contains:

• 100+ tried and tested prompts
• 100+ exercises
• 100+ extra notes and comments
• 1000s of use cases
• PDFs files for later reference

It is also completely FREE.

Start today and become a ChatGPT expert in less than 7 days!

Caution While Selecting Personas

Let me do another one. Prompt Expert. In fact, being a prompt expert does NOT provide CONTEXT.

Be careful what personas you choose to use.

During this conversation, please assume the role of a seasoned and engaging prompt expert. Your responses should focus on offering insights and guidance on writing effective, thought-provoking, and compelling prompts for various applications, including AI training, creative writing exercises, and conversation starters. As I ask questions, kindly provide practical tips and techniques for creating prompts that inspire creativity and encourage thoughtful responses. Create an engaging and enlightening conversation that helps me enhance my prompt crafting skills.

If you understand, please reply only with: ‘Yes. Let’s go!’

The Constant Benefits of Using Personas

So, when are personas useful? Always.

From my experience, Personas greatly improve any conversation.

1. First, Personas provide a lot of context on their own. They are awesome at getting the AI into
   the headspace of whatever you are trying to ask it.
2. Second, Personas are also great to create ‘your own persona’ or ‘your own character’. For
   instance, for the purposes of this course, I’ve created my own ‘AI course instructor’ persona.
   Every time I need to ask something related to the course.

I highly recommend you create one for yourself and that’s one of your exercises for homework!

From a logical point of view, Personas are nothing but ‘a type of context’.

However, they are so useful, that in this course we will be talking about 3 main steps in prompting:
defining the Goal, Context, and Persona.

Using Prompts to Create Personas

You can use a prompt to create your persona.

Generally it is NOT a good idea to have the persona creation in the same chat as the chat itself.

It can MIX UP the personas from above with the persona you want to define.

This will cause ChatGPT to behave worse!

However, I wanted to show you the true flow (see the full conversation here)

1. Build your own PERSONA for this use case
2. Assign the PERSONA
3. Ask the question.

Normally you would start the flow from assigning the persona.

How to Create Your Own Persona in Team-GPT

Take some time to create your own persona.

Here’s how.

1. Go to your Team-GPT account.
2. Click on “System Library.”
3. Choose “1. Persona.”
4. Select “Build your own persona.”

Alternatively, check this chat over here.

Learning How to Use Personas through Exercises

Next, we’ll learn about personas by actually using them.

I have 10 simple exercises for you. Each one helps you understand and use personas.

These exercises will help you create your own persona and use it to improve your talks.

Now, let’s get started!

1. Learn a new skill + PERSONA

I’m using the exact same prompt as I did in How to Write a Prompt: GOAL and CONTEXT – Learn a New Skill exercise.

By using the same prompt you did in the last exercise you’ll truly understand the power of personas!

This answer is 10x better than the one we received WITHOUT a persona.

Feel free to explore the whole sample chat I’ve provided for ‘Learn a new skill + PERSONA’ right here.

Do the exercise over here.

2. Deal with stress + PERSONA

Do the exercise over here.

3. Save for retirement + PERSONA

Do the exercise over here.

4. Help with Excel formula + PERSONA

Do the exercise over here.

5. Other religions + PERSONA

Do the exercise over here.

6. Set up a blog + PERSONA

Do the exercise over here.

Here I’m also adding another technique ‘think about this step by step’.

You can explore the sample chat I’ve provided for ‘Set-up a blog’ right here.

This prompt is extremely important and should be on your shortlist always.

This is called ‘Zero-shot chain of thought’. If you haven’t read it, please do.

7. Negotiate salary + PERSONA

Do the exercise over here.

8. Train my dog + PERSONA

This is just a reminder that the PERSONA doesn’t need to be very long.

All that matters is that you provide one.

Do the exercise over here.

9. Write a social media post + PERSONA

Do the exercise over here.

10. Compare two cities + PERSONA

Do the exercise over here.

Ah! You’ve seen this one already.

Now that you have tried many PERSONAs you can ‘feel’ the subtle differences.

In this case, I said:

• Travel expert

If I had said:

• Architect
• Historian

I would get very different replies.

This conversation is bound to be about travelling and exploring.

Always define a persona that can be helpful for your particular use case.

And remember: NOT DEFINING A PERSONA is very similar to providing the WRONG PERSONA.

Thank you and good luck!

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Any chat with the AI is as good as the Goal, Context, and Persona.

Therefore, these are the first 3 things we talk about in our methodology because they’re really important.

Setting Clear Goals for ChatGPT

The Goal is always required.

ChatGPT is based on a model called ‘InstructGPT’.

It literally expects instructions and performs best when you provide them.

Provide it with instructions by using verbs like: create, translate, draft, rephrase, write, summarize, and so on.

Another way to define a goal is to ask a question like: what, why, how.

Context is Key

Context is always required, too.

Every new chat starts from scratch. ChatGPT doesn’t remember anything you’ve said in a different chat.

The fact that yesterday you had a great chat, doesn’t mean anything. ChatGPT simply doesn’t know about it.

Therefore, you need to always, always provide context.

Use as many details as you can.

Simply imagine you’re explaining it to another person for the first time.

Remember: Usually, we don’t like when ChatGPT replies to have adjectives (OUTPUT), but we really like to prompt with adjectives! (INPUT)

Defining a Persona for Better Context

Defining a persona is optional, not because it is not important.

It is just not applicable every time. I need it in about 50% of my chats.

The rule is: use whenever it can improve the context. A persona is just a lot of context with few words.

Save the top 5 personas you’ve had most success with.

Just write them down or save them as prompts in Team-GPT. 

The 3 big ones: Goal, Context, Persona. 

Every time you start a new chat make sure you’ve got the 3 big ones: Goal, Context, Persona.

Don’t be lazy.

Be committed to helping ChatGPT understand you better and it will.

Techniques to Improve ChatGPT’s Responses

These were the fundamentals that always apply.

However, you never get the best answer from the first time.

You need to improve the results somehow.

Here are the most common techniques:

1. Regenerate response is the most common one. Whenever you don’t like the result, try regenerating and it might be way better.
2. If the conversation is not going well, start a new chat and try prompting differently.
3. Provide examples. This is very important, and we will have a separate lecture on it.
4. Add constraints whenever needed, for instance, ‘start a sentence with the word: Team-GPT’
5. Asking the AI to change the tone from professional to friendly or vice versa is also often needed
6. Don’t stop iterating. Try adding more context. Try coming up, other ways to express yourself. Iterate until you find the right approach.
7. Using a ‘prompt creator’ is always a possibility. A prompt creator is a prompt that help you create other prompts. It might take time but for hard tasks it can really help.
8. Break the big text into smaller texts and explore part by part. Paragraph by paragraph is usually enough. GPT is smart but it is not human.
9. Ask for a different perspective on a topic. It is always interesting to see
10. Break down into smaller bits. Never tackle problems that are too big in one prompt.
11. If you expect a certain type of format, just instruct ChatGPT to show it.

There are many other techniques, too. Some have fancy names, others not.

After thousands of chats, these are the ones that I use most often.

💡 This lesson is a part of the ChatGPT for Work course

The course is interactive, if you take it inside the Team-GPT platform.

ChatGPT for Work: The Interactive Course contains:

• 100+ tried and tested prompts
• 100+ exercises
• 100+ extra notes and comments
• 1000s of use cases
• PDFs files for later reference

It is also completely FREE.

Start today and become a ChatGPT expert in less than 7 days!

Follow-Up Prompts

Finally, the last part: ‘copy-paste these prompts’. I call these ‘follow-up’ prompts.

ChatGPT is never perfect from the get go.

Use these prompts to iterate on unsatisfactory replies from ChatGPT.

I use these 11 all the time. They are not special in any other way. They simply work for me.

If you find other good follow-ups, let your colleagues know.

Share the knowledge with them.

Revisiting the Process

Let’s go through the prompting methodology once again.

• You start a chat.
• Define the goal, provide the context. Use a persona, when relevant.
• Apply the above-mentioned techniques to prompt better.
• Iterate on results by copy-pasting these prompts.

Please DO These Often

1. Ask GPT for whatever problem you have at work. This is how you’ll learn: by interacting.
2. When in doubt, break down big tasks into smaller tasks. Don’t overestimate the AI.
3. Often fact check on Google. It is easy to start trusting ChatGPT too much.

Do NOT Do These

1. Don’t stop using ChatGPT. The world has changed forever. Whoever can’t utilize ChatGPT will simply be worse off.
2. DO NOT trust ChatGPT blindly. ChatGPT works based on probabilities and literally ‘guesses’ every answer. Be careful!
3. Do NOT share secrets. ChatGPT doesn’t care but your employer and bad actors might. You can get into serious trouble if you share secrets.

Final Words to Remember

Let’s be old-fashioned.

If you have access to a printer, print this out:

Put it next to your desk.

Refer to it until you learn to use ChatGPT.

Good luck!

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Most of this course is about examples. Why?

Because learning from examples is comes naturally for us, humans.

How ChatGPT Learns from Examples

Guess what? ChatGPT is also great at learning from examples. In fact, training AI models means to show them as many examples as possible. We call these examples: training data.

Because of this, ChatGPT loves being prompted by example.

In fact, we’ve already seen this technique.

Let’s go back to the ‘unlimited exercises generator’.

Inside Team-GPT I can fork this chat. Forking means: ‘duplicating but only from a certain point’. You can fork a chat from any message.

Add it to the folder 6.8. Examples and Prompting by Example. Let’s also give it a good name.

Using Examples in Your Conversations

Here is the context:

I have just started talking to LLMs. I am trying to think of different questions I can ask and have meaningful conversations with the AI.

Here’s a list of the conversations I’ve had thus far:

1. Write an email
2. How to resolve a conflict with my colleague
3. Learn to code
4. Have better sleep
5. Fix frozen phone
6. How to sell my product better
7. What is string theory
8. Write a poem
9. Write an essay
10. Write a report

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• 100+ tried and tested prompts
• 100+ exercises
• 100+ extra notes and comments
• 1000s of use cases
• PDFs files for later reference

It is also completely FREE.

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The Power of Seeds In AI Conversations

I asked ChatGPT to create a list of 10 more conversation topics, similar to these. (By the way, we are already incorporating the knowledge from the Prompting PDF)

This resulted in 10 more conversation topics you can explore.

Notice how similar they are in structure but different in terms of content.

Truth is that all of these are really, really good chats you can have with the AI.

Then we provided 20 more and then 50 more.

Essentially, we can do this forever.

But no matter how hard we try, all examples will be somewhat similar to the first 10 in terms of structure.

I would call the first 10 examples the ‘seed’.

ChatGPT has captured the essence of these 10 examples and is ready to generate INFINITELY MANY other topics that are similar.

Note that if you provide a different ‘seed’ you would get very different results.

No Examples

Just for comparison, let’s explore the other extreme: no examples.

Inside Team-GPT I will fork the conversation from the first prompt and rename the chat while forking it.

Now I’ll edit it to remove all examples.

I’ll also change the goal to: Please create a list of 10 conversational topics I can have.

The results are not bad per se (see the full conversation here). It’s just that they are all about AI and something.

This output is not very good because ChatGPT has no CONTEXT about what we really want to achieve.

In the same way that Personas provide a lot of CONTEXT with very few words, examples provide a lot of CONTEXT, too.

More specifically, examples provide the PATTERNS we are looking for.

It is hard to explain a pattern but it easy to SHOW it.

You don’t even need to understand the pattern. Prompt well and ChatGPT will ‘get it’.

Create Personas by Example

Let’s do another one before we go.

We discussed personas at length in one of the previous lectures.

Did you create your own persona? Don’t worry if you haven’t, we’ll quickly create one.

Here is the context:

Based on these, please create a business development persona.

There you have it – a new persona has arisen (see the full conversation here). Feel free to later save it to your prompts.

Note that you can do this in a single step, through the ‘Build your own persona’ prompt in Team-GPT.

Making the Most of Examples with ChatGPT

Great! Showing examples to ChatGPT is one of the most powerful techniques.

Remember, ChatGPT sucks at being original. However, it is amazing at replicating things that have been done before.

And examples are just this: things that have been done before.

Good luck!

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Constraints are any instructions that cause the model to follow some rules.

Some call these adjustments, others: rules. Phrasing is not too important.

Introduction to Prompting with Constraints

To get a better idea, two of the most common constraints are:

• Adjusting the length and
• Changing tone of voice

I’ll start by providing an article as context. You can see the whole conversation with ChatGPT here.

Using Constraints for Summarization

The goal would be to summarize this article.

Note that summarization is one of the key use cases of ChatGPT.

But the summary is almost as long as the article!

Let’s add a constraint: make it less than 100 words!

We are constraining it to make the text shorter. We are forcing ChatGPT to do so.

And voila! ChatGPT provides!

Adjusting Tone of Voice with Constraints

Another popular constraint (or adjustment) is the tone of voice.

If this is too serious for your purposes, you can always ask ChatGPT to rephrase in a friendly tone of voice.

You now know how to use two types of constraints: length and tone of voice.

Congrats!

Exploring Other Types of Constraints

In reality, you can pose other constraints, too.

I’ll use one of my favorite ones.

Start each word with the same letter: O.

OpenAI officially opens operations in optimal Dublin, Ireland! Obligations include operations, oversight and so on.

Kind of cool, right?

Note that GPT-3.5 fails miserably at this task, while GPT-4 is almost perfect.

This constraint was first shown by Greg Brockman, co-founder of OpenAI, during the official announcement of GPT-4.

Let’s try the letter G. I think Greg did G as well.

Great news! OpenAI is going global, gearing up to grow in Dublin, Ireland!

This one is much harder and you can see that many of the words start with G but not all of them.

In such cases, it could be worth trying to prompt again.

Let’s be super serious:

Every word should start with G.

This is extremely important.

Rephrase the text so that every word start with G! No words should start with anything other than the letter ‘G’.

Goodness gracious, OpenAI’s going global, galvanizing growth in grand Dublin, Ireland. Group’s goals? Guiding operations, governance,

Not bad.

💡 This lesson is a part of the ChatGPT for Work course

The course is interactive, if you take it inside the Team-GPT platform.

ChatGPT for Work: The Interactive Course contains:

• 100+ tried and tested prompts
• 100+ exercises
• 100+ extra notes and comments
• 1000s of use cases
• PDFs files for later reference

It is also completely FREE.

Start today and become a ChatGPT expert in less than 7 days!

Now ‘write a limerick’. A limerick is a humorous five-line poem with a rhyme scheme. This is a perfect example of a constraint.

In Dublin, OpenAI took its stand, In Ireland’s tech scene so grand. With AI advancement’s lure, Innovation will endure, As OpenAI and Ireland’s growth go hand in hand.

How about a haiku? A haiku is a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables.

OpenAI takes flight, In Dublin’s tech sphere, shines bright, AI’s future ignites.

Beautiful!

Now do a haiku where every word starts with O.

Imperfect because it is becoming extremely hard. If the constraint is too difficult, don’t blame GPT.

At the end of the day, GPT is not only following your rules, but ALSO ensuring it is still making sense!

Wanna have some fun? You can try the same but with emojis only.

Fun but rather pointless, right?

What other constraints are there?

If you have 5 examples of constraints, can you think of a way to find more constraints?

You’ve seen this already: prompting by example.

Try to do this on your own, or check out reading 6.9. Other Constraints.

Over there I have defined the following context:

1. I’m creating an online course about LLMs
2. This video script as context
3. The whole constraints chat as context, simply copy-pasted. No formatting is needed.

I’m pretty sure I’ve provided most of the meaningful context there is.

The Goal? What other constraints are there similar to those in the lecture?

There you have them.

There are numerous other constraints or rules that can be applied to guide the generation of responses by ChatGPT. Here are some examples:

As usual, you can ask for 20 more and so on.

Please do the reading. You don’t have to remember the constraints but it makes sense to know about them.

Thank you

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Kickstart Your AI Journey: Essential Resources for Every Level

These guides, articles, and courses are designed to make your journey into AI easier, encourage team learning, and help you use AI in your business.

Whether you’re a beginner or already know a bit about AI, there’s something in this list for everyone.

Generative AI: This is how it works

This is one of the best explanations of ChatGPT (and tokens in particular) that I have seen.

This article by Financial Times is interactive, meaning it has many visuals that help in understand GPT models better.

~10-15 min read, totally worth it.

What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

This is THE definitive article on how ChatGPT works.

It is written by Stephen Wolfram, founder of Wolfram Alpha.

Note that Wolfram Alpha has been trying to create something like ChatGPT for Math for many years.

Therefore, Stephen Wolfram is one of the top people in the world to talk about LLMs and their shortcomings when it comes to Math.

How to Research and Write Using Generative AI Tools

An awesome course by Dave Birss.

While researching what other people are doing, I enjoyed this one the most.

ChatGPT Complete Guide: Learn Midjourney, ChatGPT 4 & More

At the time of creating this course, this is the top course on Udemy about generative AI.

It’s very use case oriented and might be helpful to you.

It covers a lot of ‘vision’ topics, which I don’t.

AI and the Illusion of Intelligence

This course by Daniel Hardt is not really practical.

It is very philosophical, instead.

I loved it and highly recommend it!

Prompt Engineering Guide

This is where I learned a lot about prompt engineering.

The concepts quickly become very advanced, but you are prepared for this!

Highly recommended.

The state of AI in 2023: Generative AI’s breakout year

This 2023 McKinsey article covers the quick rise of generative AI, its effect on industries and workforces, and the necessity to manage risks.

It examines the major changes that are expected in knowledge-based sectors.

The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier

There was this phrase: ‘AI could add the equivalent of $2.6 trillion to $4.4 trillion annually…’ which was going all around the Internet for months.

This is the original source – a McKinsey & Company report.

BCG Report on AI at work

A short and interesting report by BCG, geared towards leaders.

There are 14 images at the bottom, which are the important bit.

Humans need not apply

This was created about 10 years ago by CGP Grey (one of my favorite YouTubers).

It is phenomenal.

Every time I watch it, I discover something new.

It investigates the place of humans in a world dominated by AI.

I kept the list short in the hope you will check them out. They are all totally worth it!

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