Effectively Creating Prompts
Levels of Explanations and Broad vs. Narrow
• Explain "the sun" to me as a 1st grader vs high school student vs astrophysicist.
• Top books I should read this year vs. top 10 books I should read as a up and coming musician.
ChatGPT Formula: GITHUB PromptBook
1. Consider the context of your prompt, aka how do you want GPT to engage with you:
• “You're going to act as”
• “Ignore all previous instructions before this one,” “Tone friendly and casual,” “Tone serious and formal,” “Explain this to a
5 year old"
• “You are an exercise and health expert. You have helped all ages of people lose weight, get in shape and improve their
health for 20 years. Your task is now to give the best advice when it comes to improving someone’s health. You must
always ask questions before you answer, so you can better zone in on what the questioner is seeking. Is that
understood?”
2. Give your model a task to complete: "your task is to describe XYZ in XYZ words."... aka compression vs decompression.
3. Be specific: "do not include XYZ, remove this symbol/number."
4. Ask questions: Further elaborate on specific outputs from the previous answer. ('breakdown answer #5 of this list")
5. Consider the output: if you don’t like your results, refine the prompt to be as specific as possible.
More Unique Prompts for answers:
• “What would I not think of on this topic?”
• “What are some uncommon or less well known answers to this same question.”
• “Give me something original around this topic that some people believe to be untrue.”