ChatGPT - Prompts for developers

Understand the ChatGPT:

ChatGPT is an AI chatbot—conversational dialog in humanlike response through natural language processing. With this capability, answer questions, and write numerous text pieces such as articles, social media posts, essays, code, and emails. This is going to be one of the most exciting tools to try for a programmer.

The software, created by the AI research company OpenAI, is called ChatGPT. The company was founded in 2015 by a team that includes, among others, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and several other investors—principally, Microsoft.

What is Rapid Engineering, and Why Is It Related to Engineering?

Well, prompt engineering allows one to ultimately get accurate, relevant results with great ease. It also helps one to reduce the bias that could be present either in the data used to train the large language model or to be a manifestation of human bias upon the data. Further, it refines the AI-user interaction to the extent that AI understands the intentions of the user with less input.

When writing an assignment prompt,

• Be sure to stay clear and be direct.
• Mention the programming language to work with, and describe clearly what functionality should be implemented. For instance— the task "Write a JavaScript function to calculate the sum of given numbers" is much clearer than "Write a function to calculate the sum."
• Put in proper context and detail and be unambiguous and not overly detailed.
• Define the Inputs and Outputs: If the function or code snippet to be written requires inputs in a certain format and produces output in a certain format, do describe them.

How ChatGPT can help Developers:

ChatGPT is the advanced language model that would thus be able to assist the developer in most of the ways along his/her journey of coding. Let's look at a few.

1. Code Writing: Use ChatGPT to write code based on some description. For example, you need a C# function that calculates the sum of 2 numbers. You can ask ChatGPT, as you see below, and it will return you with the appropriate code:.

Prompt Example:

"Write a C# function to calculate the sum of the 2 given numbers."        

2. Code Refactoring: ChatGPT assists in refactoring your code that makes the code more efficient and less error-prone at the same time, and it becomes modifiable and extensible in the future.

Prompt Example:

I have a piece of code and I need you to refactor it:
INSERT YOUR CODE HERE        

3. Code Review & Debugging: You can ask ChatGPT to review the code snippet and prompt on issues or bugs that could be in there.

Prompt Example:

"Here's a C# code snippet. The function is supposed to return the maximum value from the given list, but it's not returning the expected output. Can you identify the problem?".
INSERT YOUR CODE HERE        

4. Inculcate Coding Best Practices or Principles: These will facilitate ChatGPT to rewrite your code on best practices.

Prompt Example:

Rewrite the code below following the Google style guidelines for JavaScript.
INSERT YOUR CODE HERE        

5. Code Explanation: Explain old and complex code snippets. Explain the meaning of a specific piece of code.

Prompt Example:

"Could you please explain how this C# function works?".
INSERT YOUR CODE HERE        

6. Code Optimizing: This is where ChatGPT will help optimize the code either for performance or readability, making your code sleek and efficient.

Prompt Example:

"Here’s a function I wrote in JavaScript that prints first n Fibonacci Numbers. Could you suggest any optimizations for better performance?"
INSERT YOUR CODE HERE        

7. Write Unit Tests: ChatGPT can even formulate the test cases for you in unit testing.

Prompt Example:

Please write unit tests for the following code.
INSERT YOUR CODE HERE        

8. Insert Code Comments: If your code is self-explanatory, and you just need comments, ChatGPT can do it for you in no time.

Prompt Example:

Add comments to the following code:
INSERT YOUR CODE HERE        

9. Boilerplate Code: ChatGPT can help develop boilerplate code.

Prompt Example:

Write a boilerplate JavaScript function that will take a variable of type User, and validate whether the user has the right permissions or not.        

10. Making a Regular Expression: Regular expressions make it easy to match, find, and manipulate text. It's a quick and relatively easy process when handling data, particularly in large, complicated programs where ChatGPT can assist us in crafting some RegEx.

Prompt Example:

Write a regular expression that matches:
REQUEST        

These are some of the examples of how ChatGPT can make a developer's life easy. Besides that, ChatGPT can also help with learning new concepts, understanding design patterns, code refactoring, brainstorming ideas, interview preparations, and much more.