Continuing from the previous idea, we'll now be covering how to improve upon the prompts you've built so far.Here are three points to improve and iterative your prompts with:

 Iterative Prompting as a concept

By imposing conditions such as word count limits, or sentence restrictions, we can generate outputs that are concise and succinct. This basically simplifies our task, by reducing the jargon we need to deal with.Alternatively, these limits help us curb costs, especially when using OpenAI's APIs since we are charged on a per token basis.

Imposing artificial limits

ChatGPT will generally focus on the entire goal/objective that is provided to it. Asking it to summarise will summarise the whole content, and asking it to build a blog website will get you a blog website.But specificity is what matters. By telling ChatGPT what your specific focus is will allow it to solve a problem with your focus in mind.An example of this would be to generate a product description for one of your products, while keeping in mind that the target audience is Gen-Z. Your output will significantly change

Setting a focal point

Continuing in the AI series, here we talk about how iterating over your prompts yields better results.

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Understanding ChatGPT Prompt Engineering - Iterative Prompting

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 specific concepts

Fundamental Guidelines for prompt engineering with ChatGPT

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:<ol><li>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. </li><li>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</li></ol>(Continued in the idea below)

Clear and Specific instructions - Principle 1

<ol><li>Check if conditions are fulfilled: Make sure your prompt contains what should be done if GPT is unable to do the task. An example would be "Respond with \"no steps provided"\ if there are no bullet points"</li><li>Few shot prompting: Giving the model a few example of what you want, a conversational style, or an explanation in the style of a professor goes a long way in making it give content you want.</li></ol>A fundamental principle of CS applies here, GIGO. Garbage In, Garbage Out. If we give it the right info, it'll give us the right response.

Instruction tactics

GPT doesn't think like a human, but it does need to think in a colloquial sense. For the best responses, we need to give it time to reason and think.By asking it to validate or sample an existing statement, it will understand and analyse it based on the POV that was presented in the text. But if you let the model understand it based on it's own terms and then ask it to infer, it'll give you a different POV altogether.We can do this by applying the following tactics

Let GPT think - Principle 2

<ol><li>Specify the steps: By specifying the exact steps needed, we get a much clearer output. An example would be to summarize a research paper, convert to french, list each heading out and convert it to a JSON object.</li><li>Instruct the model to figure out its own solution: Giving the model steps to do to get the output, and defining how you want the solution to be will give you your required output. An example would be to ask it solve a math problem by itself, and then compare it to a solution delimited by `` and check if it is true or not.</li></ol>

Thinking tactics

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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Understanding ChatGPT Prompt Engineering - Fundamental Guidelines

We copy behaviors, just so that we fit in. This is even more so in unfamiliar situations.Decisions that seem 'Correct' are dictated by others, especially when they're role models or similar to us

Our drive to be affirmed by others

<ul><li>Mental Shortcuts</li><li>Similarity persuades the best</li><li>Role-modelling behaviour</li></ul>

Key concepts

Ever bought the highest reviewed product on Amazon without thinking twice?You subconsciously bought into using a mental shortcutMore people recommend a product, and it makes it easier for us to make a decision.This works best for onboarding new users.

Mental shortcuts

Buying a product a close friend is a no-brainer most times. It's said that word-of-mouth is the strongest way to grow.Why is this so?One such factor is that we as humans are ingrained to place the most importance to similarity.We're most influenced by people who we think are similar to us.By communicating characteristics that are common to the group we're targeting, we are better able to direct behavior

Persuade through similarity

Who are role models? People who have an emotional impact into how we function.This emotional impact is stronger than similarity, as these are people we either want to learn from or aspire to be.Such people can directly influence opinions and behavior, especially when they're vested deep into communities.

Role-models lead the way

Being innately social beings, we often overlook how physical social networks drive brand loyalty and recurring sales. Understanding this side of us unlocks a whole different dimension on how to market better.

We copy the behaviors of others, especially in unfamiliar situations - ‘Correct’ decisions or behaviors are dictated by the actions of others, particularly those we’re similar to or aspire to become.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Scarcity is an influential driving force which can heavily influence how and why customers purchase a product. Us humans are driven to have as much as we can, and seeing something scarce mentally increases the demand we have for it, even if it has no use for us.It comes in 4 flavours:<ul><li>Quantity</li><li>Time</li><li>Access</li><li>Rarity</li></ul>

Scarcity 

By constraining quantity, we emphasize it's limited availability.Artificial constraints break user trust and opinion about companies, so using this as a tactic requires strategy.Another point to note that quantity scarcity should not induce stress. Scarcity should be used for luxury items, and not for commodities which will lead to stressed customers which impacts us in the long run.We can instead focus on the craft. "30 other people are looking at this item". This drives a narrative where a user feels the product is scarce due to it's demand, not it's actual supply.

Quantity

Make your scarcity valuable, not stressful

When time's ticking down, we take mental shortcuts. We're all used to seeing the "Offer ends in 2 hours, get your x% off now!" branding on most sites. This comes off as artificial most times, as the message communicated conveys that the user is lucky to have the offer, which ends up becoming cliche.Highlighting time restrictions when they're made to ensure quality of service leads to higher stickiness and loyalty. An example of where this works would be in seasonal products, or one-off goods.

Time

Motivate customers by emphasizing the limited time remaining in which to act.

Restricting access to consumers is counter-intuitive. Why would you want a customer to not have access to a feature?But imagine a system where a user gets a feature unlocked for being in the xth percentile. This drives up the value for a feature, which in turn increases scarcity. Doing this selectively for certain feature/customer segments is the key. Over-doing this would straight up tank a product.

Access

The concept of Scarcity lies at the core of economics, and greatly influences perceptions of value, status and our competitive desire to attain certain items over others.Unfortunately, it's also one of the more poorly-applied concepts out there, along with Defaults and Loss Aversion.Far better an approach is to use it creatively to highlight your unique value.

Marketing is a hard field to tackle. Every field has a different approach based on its limitations. I feel that understanding the psychology behind the purchases we make and our decisions leads to better positioning and understanding of why we buy products

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Behaviour Modelling via Scarcity

Communication is the fundamental cornerstone for any successful relationship. Whether it be personal, or business.We have countless interactions throughout our day, but often fail to realise the impact it can have to others around us.Specifically in leadership, setting the tone can either exponentially improve your company or tank it completely.

Communication For Leaders

Gratitude is a subtle nuance when it comes to leadership. Too much, and you wont appear as a leader anymore. Too little and your team will consider you a dictator.So what works best?"We could not have done it without your hard effort"With this, you show gratitude to the person for their contribution to the team, and how pivotal their role.Some other key phrase which leaders can use to help their team."How can I help?""What do you need from me?"(so that I can help you perform better)Effective leaders serve the needs of others , and it all starts with care and concern.

Gratitude 

Involving your team in decisions being made is essential for teams being humble and honest. It shows that you value their opinion and know how to ask for help"I could use your advice on which direction to take"Leaders need to extend trust first, instead of earning it which goes against conventional wisdom"I trust you"In situations where you aren't sure about decisions , be comfortable about it to your team"Honestly, I dont know."Your team might give you more ideas out, and chances are they're ones that you've not thought about. And if not, it shows that you're comfortable with the unknown.

Team Building

Communication is an underrated tool. It's easy to notice why a team works well when you see them talk, but when a team doesn't work it's not easy to see why they don't work well , even if they're a stellar team

They may not be what you expect, but using them often will help increase trust.

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If You Use These 6 Phrases a Lot, You're a Better Leader Than You Think

Have you ever wondered how our body can recover from almost every disease in existence? Granted we do have the largest medical library in existence, but most drugs help/assist in our recovery.An analogy would be how tanks could change the fate of a war, but they'd be irrelevant if there weren't any soldiers to man them.In order to combat a disease, our immune system need to know it's weaknesses before it can multiply enough in our body to kill us.That'd be equivalent to you unearthing a complex bomb in your garden, and you defusing it before it's timer of 2 seconds runs out.

Elegance Of The Immune System

A bacterium inside you can multiple and mutate over generations in the time it takes for you to finish a cup of warm tea for that sore throat.So how do you counter a weapon that itself adapts multiple times?That's where our Adaptive Immune System comes in. It has a weapon for every single enemy that has existed, exists and will ever exist

So How Does The Immune System Do It?

For every possible antigen that is possible in the universe, you have the potential to recognize it inside you right now

In order to create such a vast library of solutions for every possible disease that could exist, your immune system does something extraordinarily brute force yet elegant.It has a small number of gene fragments , each granting the cell the ability to identify a specific type of protein that could show up on a bacterium/virus.The immune system then mixes and matches these gene fragments randomly. Basically shuffling the deck over and over again.Once that's done, it's then taken to the Thymus , where the cell created is tested to make sure it cannot harm any of your own cells.

How Can It Do That? 

Since your immune system creates an infinite amount of cells, it also creates cells that can kill your own cells. Your thymus is crucial for identifying identification.Your thymus contains a sample of every possible cell in your body, and the immune system tests its weapons there to make sure they don't react to any bodily cell. A small University where your immune cells either pass with flying colors, or get killed.Pretty grim if you ask me, but essential to our continued existence. And there you have the largest, self assembling library that will ever exist. An all powerful system, that lets <warningtag>us exist</warningtag>

The Thymus

In awe of how amazingly complex our immune system is, and how it functions on a cellular level.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think about your body, from the creator of the popular science YouTube channel Kurzgesagt—In a Nutshell “Through wonderful analogies and a genius for clarifying complex ideas, Immune is a truly brilliant introduction to the human body’s vast system for fighting infections and other threats.”—John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars You wake up and feel a tickle in your throat. Your head hurts. You’re mildly annoyed as you get the kids ready for school and dress for work yourself. Meanwhile, an epic war is being fought, just below your skin. Millions are fighting and dying for you to be able to complain as you head out the door. But most of us never really stop to ask: What even is our immune system? Second only to the human brain in its complexity, it is one of the oldest and most critical facets of life on Earth. Without it, you would die within days. In Immune, Philipp Dettmer, the brains behind the most popular science channel on YouTube, takes readers on a journey through the fortress of the human body and its defenses. There is a constant battle of staggering scale raging within us, full of stories of invasion, strategy, defeat, and noble self-sacrifice. In fact, in the time you’ve been reading this, your immune system has probably identified and eradicated a cancer cell that started to grow in your body. Each chapter delves into an element of the immune system, including defenses like antibodies and inflammation as well as threats like bacteria, allergies, and cancer, as Dettmer reveals why boosting your immune system is actually nonsense, how parasites sneak their way past your body’s defenses, how viruses work, and what goes on in your wounds when you cut yourself. Enlivened by engaging full-color graphics and immersive descriptions, Immune turns one of the most intricate, interconnected, and confusing subjects—immunology—into a gripping adventure through an astonishing alien landscape. Immune is a vital and remarkably fun crash course in what is arguably, and increasingly, the most important system in the body.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think about your body, from the creator of the popular science YouTube channel Kurzgesagt—In a Nutshell   “Through wonderful analogies and a genius for clarifying complex ideas, Immune is a truly brilliant introduction to the human body’s vast system for fighting infections and other threats.”—John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars You wake up and feel a tickle in your throat. Your head hurts. You’re mildly annoyed as you get the kids ready for school and dress for work yourself. Meanwhile, an epic war is being fought, just below your skin. Millions are fighting and dying for you to be able to complain as you head out the door.    But most of us never really stop to ask: What even is our immune system? Second only to the human brain in its complexity, it is one of the oldest and most critical facets of life on Earth. Without it, you would die within days. In Immune, Philipp Dettmer, the brains behind the most popular science channel on YouTube, takes readers on a journey through the fortress of the human body and its defenses. There is a constant battle of staggering scale raging within us, full of stories of invasion, strategy, defeat, and noble self-sacrifice. In fact, in the time you’ve been reading this, your immune system has probably identified and eradicated a cancer cell that started to grow in your body. Each chapter delves into an element of the immune system, including defenses like antibodies and inflammation as well as threats like bacteria, allergies, and cancer, as Dettmer reveals why boosting your immune system is actually nonsense, how parasites sneak their way past your body’s defenses, how viruses work, and what goes on in your wounds when you cut yourself. Enlivened by engaging full-color graphics and immersive descriptions, Immune turns one of the most intricate, interconnected, and confusing subjects—immunology—into a gripping adventure through an astonishing alien landscape. Immune is a vital and remarkably fun crash course in what is arguably, and increasingly, the most important system in the body.

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