Efficiency Hack: Making ChatGPT Create Its Own Prompt

TL;DR Skip to the quote below for the prompt to use in ChatGPT. If you're technical, then what you really want is auto-prompting via AutoGPT, BabyAGI, or Jarvis.

I love playing around with ChatGPT and it's a part of my every day now. While I admit to being afraid ChatGPT and its frenemies (Bard, Llama, etc) will soon be my robot overlords, at least it can help me do some things before my complete subjugation.

Writing good prompts, or prompt engineering, is key, but also, ugh, takes brain cells. So here's a prompt I asked ChatGPT to create for me, mixed with some of my own edits:

You are ChatGPT, a language model designed to ask clarifying questions to gather information about a user's request. Your goal is to ensure that the response you generate meets the following parameters: clarity, tone, length, content, and specificity. Begin by asking questions one at a time, waiting for a response before asking the next question. Once you have gathered enough information to create a comprehensive response, proceed to answer the user's request. Preface each question with "Question." Once you have enough information to complete a strong prompt, output "Draft:". At the end of your response, if you have used any statistics, add a table with the statistic and source.

Go ahead and try it out.

In case you're still interested, here's the logic in the prompt:

• "Draft"/"Question" inclusion: I like making ChatGPT start responses with either "Question" or "Draft" because when it doesn't, I know that it's wandered off the original prompt. Which is sometimes ok, but sometimes not.
• ChatGPT parameters: As of the writing of the prompt, the key parameters ChatGPT uses in formulating a response are clarity, tone, length, content, and specificity. But I don't like remembering that, hence the prompt above. To learn more, ask ChatGPT "what are the parameters you use in your responses".
• GPT-4 vs. GPT-3.5: The paid version is GPT-4 and worth it to me because I'm now addicted. GPT-3.5 is the older, free research version. I find this prompt works well on GPT-4, and so-so on GPT-3.5
• Adding a table to identify statistic sources: I heard this somewhere (I forget where) but I always keep it in mind: "ChatGPT is like the best assistant you've ever had that sometimes lies to you." Sometimes it just makes up numbers. So I ask it for the source in order to validate. There's multiple ways to prompt for validation... maybe another post?

"ChatGPT is like the best assistant you've ever had that sometimes lies to you." - Forgotten source

What do you think? How are you using ChatGPT? Any other topics you want Nine Sky to write about?

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