ChatGPT Prompt Engineering

Hello friend,

This is the first installment of A Machine with Jace Arnold, a weekly newsletter that will teach you how to ace your classes and educate yourself the right way.
The AI way.

Thanks to massive leaps in natural language processing technology you (yes you!) can now accomplish more work than ever with even less effort. Goodbye painful hours of homework, goodbye stress!

This weekly email will teach you about AI and the tools you can apply daily to increase your productivity, automate workflows, and upgrade your technical repertoire entirely.

Class is in session

WHAT’S HAPPENING

A Large Language Model (LLM) is a natural language processing tool that's trained on extensive text data to understand and generate text in a human-like manner by guessing the next word. Despite its capabilities, an LLM is NOT intelligent.

Now, popular natural language processing models such as ChatGPT are in use every day by millions of people worldwide. Thanks to such tools there has been a massive leap in productivity for individuals and teams alike. It’s time to hop on the wave or get left behind!

How to win with LLMs
Learn to prompt your model effectively.

• Give to get - The more information you feed into the prompt, the better your result will be.

• Set the scene - Turn your AI assistant into your dream teammate through roleplay. Try out “Act as a school teacher to…”

• Converse and refine - Don’t just ask one question, this isn’t a search engine. Have an intelligent conversation, remain curious, and let your imagination go wild.

• Utilize patterns - LLM’s predict the next word based on their training and your conversation history. Utilize different patterns such as “from here on out…” or “revise my question/answer and provide … alternatives” to automate your workflow.

• Practice - Use these tools every day for education, problem-solving, idea generation, creative development, and having fun!

EXERCISE

Ask your LLM of choice a question as you may in any search engine such as Google. The question can be short or lacking details.

Then, implement the strategies outlined in How to win with LLM’s.

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Don’t forget, practice, practice, practice. These skills won’t develop on their own, use these tools daily, use them for things you don’t need to, and use them for fun! Make sure to check out all the information I have linked throughout the email and in the resources below.

Thanks for reading,
See you Monday!

Jace

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RESOURCES

• Powerful patterns for prompt engineering

• Use cases and prompting principles