What is ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is a special chatbot that is based on artificial intelligence and was developed by the American company OpenAI. It stands for “Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer”. It sounds complicated, but it’s basically a smart computer program that can understand and write text. ChatGPT has been trained to respond to questions and requests and to act like a real conversation partner. It can be used in various applications, such as chatbots that can be found on websites or in other programs. With ChatGPT we can get information, gain creative ideas and get support with various tasks related to writing and understanding texts. I answered the question“What is ChatGPT?” in great detail in one of my last posts.
What are ChatGPT prompts?
ChatGPT prompts are like small requests or tasks that we send to the chatbot ChatGPT. These prompts are like hints or instructions for the chatbot to help us with various things. If we ask ChatGPT with a prompt, it can write us helpful answers or even texts that we need. The great thing is that we can use ChatGPT prompts to get ideas, improve texts or even invent new stories. It’s almost as if we have a clever writing helper at our side to help us write better and get information. Another term for prompts would also be “command”. You can find a brief overview of the most important prompts in my last post on prompts.
ChatGPT Prompts – Typical errors
When using ChatGPT Prompts, I keep seeing similar errors. Try to avoid the following mistakes.
- Unclear or too general requests: If the prompts are not formulated precisely, ChatGPT may not deliver the desired results and instead generate inappropriate or unclear responses.
- Plagiarism and inaccurate information: ChatGPT is based on existing data, so there is a possibility that responses to prompts may reproduce similar or identical content from the Internet, which may not always be accurate or authentic.
- Inappropriate content: Since ChatGPT learns from the data provided to it, it may also tend to provide inappropriate responses if the previous data contained such content.
- Blind trust: It is important to review the content generated by ChatGPT and not blindly trust that everything is accurate or appropriate, especially when it comes to important or sensitive topics.
- Lack of contextualization: ChatGPT prompts sometimes fail to fully capture the context, which can lead to inappropriate responses.
In order to minimize these mistakes and not forget anything important, I have created a small checklist for you below.
Checklist – Use ChatGPT prompts
- Set ChatGPT to the correct role: It is best to start the prompt with a reference to the role or function ChatGPT should be in when it executes your prompt. You can use phrases such as “You are in the role of the marketing manager of a Swiss NGO.”
- Clearly formulate the goals of the prompt: As a rule, you have clear objectives when entering the prompt. It is important that ChatGPT is also aware of these goals. It is therefore best to always include a clear target formulation in your prompts.
- Name the target group in the prompt: Depending on your prompt and the desired outcome, it makes sense that you also name the target group for which ChatGPT should generate something for you in the prompt.
- Check result for correctness of content: ChatGPT gets its information from data on the Internet. Misinformation can also be integrated in the process. So don’t rely on the correctness of ChatGPT’s content, but question the results of ChatGPT critically.
- Check the result for logical correctness: It is not only important to check that the content of the result is correct, but also that it is logically correct. Does the answer really make sense in context or do you need to adapt it?
- Complement the result with your input and tonality: ChatGPT can formulate very well, but in many cases it no longer sounds like a message from you. It’s best to take the result from ChatGPT and enrich it with your input and your own style elements.
- Do not put any sensitive data in the prompt: Don’t forget that all the data you enter in ChatGPT can be used by OpenAI for further training purposes. Therefore, do not enter any confidential, personal or sensitive data in the prompts.
ChatGPT Prompts – Even more info
I have written a few posts about ChatGPT prompts in the last few weeks. Here is a small selection of them:
The most important ChatGPT prompts
ChatGPT prompts for blog texts
Prompt list for marketing and communication
Prompt list for employees from financial companies
Prompt list for the education sector
If you have any further questions, just send me a message and we’ll exchange ideas. The best way to reach me is via WhatsApp or e-mail.
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