Open.ai provides a guide on how to use prompts in chatGPT to generate AI content. This guide will help you provide detailed and clear instruction to chatGPT to receive the type of content you need. The article shares six strategies for getting better results, providing you with prompt examples.  

Link: Prompt Writing Advice for ChatGPT  

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Six strategies for better results 

Write clear instructions 

• Include relevant details in your query  

• Ask the model to adopt a persona 

• Use delimiters to clearly indicate distinct parts of the input 

• Specify the steps required to complete a task 

• Provide examples 

• Specify the desire length of the output 

Provide a reference test  

• Instruct the model using a reference text 

• Instruct the model with citations from a text 

Split complex tasks into simple subtasks  

• Use intent classification to signal relevant instructions 

• Summarize of filter previous dialogue  

• Summarize long documents  

Give the model time to ‘think’  

• Instruct model to work out solution before reaching a conclusion 

• User inner monologue of queries to hide model’s reasoning process 

• Ask model if it missed anything on previous pass  

Use external tools  

• Use embeddings-base search to implement knowledge retrieval 

• Use code execution to call external APIs 

• Give model access to specific functions 

Test system changes 

• Evaluate model output with reference to gold standard answers.  

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