Transform your business writing: Use ChatGPT to elevate your style and succeed - ChatGPT教程

- Writing is one of those tasks that everybody thinks is super easy with generative AI. They say, you know, you just go and ask ChatGPT to write it for you. Until you actually try to do that, and you realize the difficulty of getting generative AI or getting ChatGPT to write something in the voice that you want that has all the right information, the right style, actually controlling the writing that generative AI produces, is an incredibly different task, and it requires a lot of prompt engineering. And we're going to use writing as something to help us explore all the different components of a prompt and why they exist and why we might manipulate them. Because in order to manipulate writing and try to get a voice that we own and that we craft that generative AI is producing, not just a bunch of emojis, a bunch of social media sounding writing. If we really want to craft something that has a particular voice, a particular style, you know, something that somebody's going to pay attention to, they're going to associate with us. Just like if we're a writer. And we want to have our own voice, We want to have our own style, our own way of doing things, well, we want to build that type of prompt. We want to have a way of creating a prompt that when we go and we want to write something, it has a unique style that follows something that is our aesthetic, that's our way of analyzing and looking at the world. And isn't just generative AI dumping out an answer for us. Now, this is something that I want you to think about throughout this course, is we want to use generative AI in a way that enhances what we do and how we think and how creative we are. We want to augment our intelligence. We want to think more about the problems we're solving, not less. And when it comes to writing, it turns out we want to do the same thing with generative AI. We don't want it to become our voice. We don't all want to adopt this social media sounding voice or whatever the voice is, of the topic area that you're writing on. We don't want it to choose for us. I don't want to give up my voice in writing to generative AI. I want to take control of that voice, and I want to use generative AI to help rewrite in the voice that captures my ideas and my thoughts in my style. But my style in generative AI is really, really hard. So we're going to explore why this is difficult. We're going to then look at all the components of a prompt that can help us take control of the voice of writing, and then think about how we can build patterns to capture our own writing in different contexts that we can use if we want to draft an email, or we can use, if we want to draft a section of a white paper, or we can use if we want to write a blog post, that will be who we are, not who generative AI is, and will capture our thoughts. Now let's just start off with a bad example. And this is where most people go when they start with prompting, is they just give it a bunch of instructions and they say, "Hey, write something for me." So right here I say, I need to write an email to my colleagues at Vanderbilt explaining that we're launching a new prompt engineering class that our graduate students might take. Now, this is not a very good prompt and we'll explore why as we go, but let's take a look at what it does. It says, sure, here's a draft for an email for you. Subject, new prompt engineer class, exciting opportunity for graduate students. Let's just go ahead and start critiquing this email. Never am I going to send an email to my colleagues that says, exciting opportunity for graduate students about my course. That is just not something I'm going to do. Then it goes on and it says, I'm thrilled to announce the launch of our new prompt engineering class. I'm never going to probably write I'm thrilled to announce, unless maybe it's on a social media post, in which case I might do it, because that's kind of the style of social media. But if I'm writing an email to my colleagues at Vanderbilt, I am not going to start that email with I am thrilled to announce, which sounds like I'm writing a social media post. So there's a fundamental problem with the voice, the tone. This is not me. Now, if we go on and we look at it, it goes then and says, key features of the course. Comprehensive curriculum. Expert instructors. Flexible learning. Well, it's kind of funny because if you go back and look at my initial prompt, there's nothing about the course in there. And this is hallucination at work. It's what people go nuts about and they say, oh my gosh, it hallucinates. How are you ever going to use it? And most people that I see saying this are using it like this. There's just a fundamental lack of prompt engineering. And they assume because it's written a lot of stuff that they've done a good job with their prompt. And this prompt is lacking in so many ways that we're going to dissect. And then what we get, because of that, is we get hallucination. It's hallucinating the content of my course, what's in it, comprehensive curriculum. We don't know if it's comprehensive or not, because in fact, I'm filming the course right now, so it doesn't even exist. So I can say definitively, there is not a comprehensive curriculum. Now, that's what we see when we see people sort of saying it writes well, is they say that sort of naively without really, you know, fully understanding the difficulty of this task and how much has to go into it. Let's think about what we would do. Now, imagine that I told you, I want you to go and write like William Faulkner. He has a very particular style. If I told you to go and write like William Faulkner, what are you going to do? You're not going to immediately begin writing. You're probably going to go and you're going to read a lot of William Faulkner's work and try to learn and understand how William Faulkner writes. And then what you're going to do is you're going to then probably go and write some, and then you're going to look and you're going to compare your writing to William Faulkner's writing. You're going to see where your style matches, where it doesn't it. You're probably going to get outside perspectives. It's going to be an incredibly difficult task. And that's what people don't understand is that going and actually writing something, requires enormous, enormous time and energy and complexity to match a style, to match a voice, to match our ideas. And we're going to explore how do we do that with prompt engineering? How do we take a prompt and begin capturing our voice in that prompt, our ideas in that prompt? And what do we have to use from a prompt engineering perspective to do that effectively?