The internet’s favourite AI bot, ChatGPT, can be great fun or incredibly helpful if you know how to use it.
There’s a knack to getting the most out of the ground-breaking service – which is currently free to use.
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What can you do on ChatGPT?
ChatGPT uses artificial intelligence (AI) to have human-like conversations with people.
The AI bot, which launched in November, can understand human dialogue and generate detailed human-like text.
The tool can engage in a wide range of text-based interactions with users, and even ask humans follow-up questions.
ChatGPT can correct grammatical errors, and even repair bugs in lines of code.
But it is not an error-less machine.
It can still make mistakes – so it’s important to not ask ChatGPT anything really important, such as legal advice, that you can’t confirm yourself.
How to write good ChatGPT prompts?
A prompt is what users feed ChatGPT to get what they want, be it a recipe or resume.
But there’s an art to a fruitful prompt:
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- Make sure your prompts are clear and precise, and avoid long sentences.
- Ask specific questions and explain the context.
- Choose words that are easy to understand and help the tool better interpret the context.
- Avoid asking questions with yes/no answers or very general and ambiguous questions, for example: “What is Love?”
Best things to ask Chat GPT
- Act as a chef. Write recipes for a Japanese three-course meal I can cook for date night.
- Write a casual message in Spanish to my Airbnb host saying I’m going to be a little late to check-in and that I will arrive at 4pm.
- Act as a European travel agent. Come up with a 14-day itinerary for a trip to France. Start the trip with a visit to the Louvre.
- Write a cover letter for a retail position highlighting my social and communication skills.
- Write a letter of resignation to my employer. The reason for my resignation is that I need a more flexible schedule due to family issues.
- Act as a tutor. I need help understanding how the quadratic formula works. Please describe it in easy-to-understand terms.
- Send a pun-filled happy birthday message to my friend Anna.
- Explain possible meanings of this quote by Nietzsche <paste quote>
- I have tomatoes, potato, broccoli and eggs. What can I prepare with them for a lunch?
- Act as a nutritionist. Help me devise 10 healthy meals that can be cooked in 30 minutes or less.
- Create a one month workout plan for me exercise my shoulder muscles.
- Create a poem or song for children aged ten that explains artificial intelligence.
- Two American citizens leave the Irish pub sober. Continue the joke, please.
- Describe eight supermarket goods that are frequently cited as being cheap and unusually healthy.
- Describe six effective yoga poses or stretches that are safe and excellent for people of all ages.
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