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My #1 Prompt Tip: Treat AI like a "Digital Intern" and invest in its training. If you hired an intern tomorrow, you wouldn't give him/her 1 sentence of direction. Right? You'd give her a checklist … explain why … ask him/her if they have any questions.

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I loved this comment from Nicolas Cole. If you’re not finding ChatGPT helpful, you’re not using it right yet. It definitely takes a couple of hours to play around.

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You want ChatGPT to sound like you.

You don't want it to sound like a robot, which is why I tell it my:

The more we teach ChatGPT how we write, the more it will sound like us—even if you have the customization feature on.

https://youtu.be/5hE1Xci5pTY?si=TYu9-lyOpSbtH_Ke

5 Tips for Badass Prompting

  1. The best prompts ARE NOT ONE SENTENCE. They're weightier.
  2. Treat the bot like an intern—give very clear, step-by-step instructions.
  3. Give it one task at a time. Ask if it’s confused, ask “do you understand,” do that again, show how to stop it, do that again,The best prompts don't ask AI to chase 7 different ideas at once. Remember: imagine you're hand-holding a college intern. I like this, but I don’t like this. This line sounds cheesy. Do you understand? Can you do that? BTW, join TCBC if you want to see videos of me doing this in real-time. It was most helpful for me watching hours of people inputting info to learn how to use it.
  4. Pepper your convo with the bot with phrases like— ◦ do you understand ◦ is that something you can do ◦ do you need more info ◦ do you have any questions ◦ do you understand what I'm asking ◦ I'm looking for [examples/feedback/ideas] like [provide examples] ◦ the goal of this is to ___ ◦ I like X, I don't like Y ◦ avoid anything that is ____
  5. Thread & Save your chats! Label them things you're working on, like "podcast research" or "audience research" ... "social media content ideas bot" etc.
  6. If AI gives you the wrong output, that means you gave it the wrong input. Don't get upset at AI (lol). Sometimes, you need to workshop your prompts 10+ times to figure out how to get what you need. Workshop a question a few times before you give up!

In short: If you don't know what to ask for, AI isn't going to know what to give you. Which is why the thesis "the robots are taking over... we're all going to lose our jobs!" is wrong. If you're a do-er, you need to become a "thinker." So you can tell AI to "do the doing.”