Writing Prompts

If you’re trying to get better results with ChatGPT but not quite getting the answers you’re looking for, OpenAI recently released a prompt engineering guide with 6 specific strategies to help you unlock ChatGPT’s potential:

Strategy 1 — Write clear instructions:

• Include details in your prompt to get more relevant answers
• Specify the steps required to complete a task
• Provide examples

Strategy 2 — Provide reference text:

• Instruct ChatGPT to answer using a reference text, such as a link to a PDF or a website
• Instruct ChatGPT to answer with citations from a reference text

Strategy 3 — Split complex tasks into simpler subtasks:

• Since there is a limit on how much text you can insert into ChatGPT, summarize long documents piece by piece to stay within the limit
• For prompts that involve multiple instructions, try breaking the prompts into smaller chunks

Strategy 4 — Give ChatGPT some time to think: