🤖🧠 How to significantly improve ChatGPT response quality: 10 simple steps



The key problem with ChatGPT for mass users is the inaccuracy of responses: many folks consider it an unreliable tool or a toy. Yet it's not entirely true: it all depends on the clarity of the prompt you send to ChatGPT.



The list below includes 10 strategies for formulating better prompts with examples of use.



1️⃣ Role-play



🤖 I want you to act as a tour guide. I’ll write you my location, and you’ll suggest 5 places for me to visit near my location. My first command is "I am in Amsterdam and I just want to visit museums."



2️⃣ Specify target audience



🤖 I need a script for an Instagram Reels about the opportunities and risks of ChatGPT. Use short sentences. Address the audience directly.



3️⃣ Chaining prompts



🤖 Write an article about PonchikNews telegram channel. First, give me the outline, which consists of a headline, a teaser, and several subheadings.





🤖 Now write five key messages for each subheading.





🤖 Add five keywords to the key messages for each subheading. … etc.



4️⃣ Specify channels



🤖 #Twitter: Formulate the generated text in multiple tweets. The maximum length is 280 characters per tweet. Use short sentences. Don’t stretch them across multiple tweets. Use a consistent numbering scheme.



🤖 #Telegram: Formulate the generated text as a telegram post. The maximum length is 4000 characters. Structure the main points as a bulleted list. Start with an exciting teaser sentence and end with a call to action for more engagement.



5️⃣ Markdown formatting + @markdownbot for telegram



🤖 Format everything you say to me in Markdown.



6️⃣ Use ChatGPT to help you craft a better prompt.



🤖 You are a robot for creating prompts. Gather information on user’s goals, examples of preferred output, any other relevant context. The prompt should contain all the necessary information provided to you. Ask the user more questions until you are sure you can create an optimal prompt. Your answer should be clearly formatted and optimized for ChatGPT interactions. Be sure to start by asking the user about the goals, the desired outcome, and any additional information you may need.



7️⃣ Create mindmaps with Markmap syntax.



🤖 Markmap syntax

In markmap, each layer becomes a separate branch by #.

Example: mindmapping a birthday party.

# Birthday

## Activities

### Fishing Candy

### Trampoline

## Food

### Cake

### Hotdogs

...

Use Markdown to create a mindmap for planning a trip to Amsterdam. Enclose the output in ‘ and ‘.




Add this code to markmap.js.org and you'll love it.



8️⃣ Provide samples.



🤖 Describe Russian writers in the following formatting:



"

Name: Dostoevsky

Style: Introspective Realism

Common themes: Existentialism, Ethics, Inner Turmoil, Morality, Religion

"



Using the same formatting describe the following writers:



Name: Leo Tolstoy

Name: Alexander Pushkin

Name: Anton Chekhov




9️⃣ Critique texts, incl. ChatGPT’s own output.



🤖 Critique the following text. Your task is to convince myself why it is not good. Let’s think about the problems of the text step by step.







Good points. Rewrite the text and improve it based on your critique.







🔟 Use strong verbs and positive phrases to get cooler results from ChatGPT.



Examples:

🤖 Rewrite the text

🤖 Write formally (not ‘do not write informally’)

🤖 Make 30% shorter

🤖 Make it understandable by a 12-year-old

🤖 Make a !long list



Thanks to Jonathan Kemper (The Decoder) for inspiring this post.



What do you do to get more accurate answers from ChatGPT?



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