Clear and Specific instructions - Principle 1 - Deepstash
Clear and Specific instructions - Principle 1

Clear and Specific instructions - Principle 1

ChatGPT doesn't think like a human, it's a computer program after all. In order to have it respond correctly, we first define the base conditions on which it will act. A sandbox of sorts.

There are four basic tactics to apply:

  1. Use delimiters: Tell GPT to "Summarise the text between ```" or any other delimiter of your choice. This prevents anyone from engineering on your own prompts. 
  2. Ask for structured output: Most times we need structured data, as a CSV, JSON or even an HTML file. By asking GPT to reply in a certain format, we get the data that we want

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ChatGPT is a powerful tool, and understanding how to ask it is knowledge that we all should have. "Give a man a fish, and hell be sated for a day. Teach him how to, and he'll never be hungry in his life". The same philosophy applies here.

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