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 all the rage, and with that comes a plethora of Prompt engineering cheatsheets that are supposed to improve how you work with it.

Let's figure out how these prompts are built, instead of just directly copying them This is a series of posts, each covering...