Why Your Employees Should Be Fluent in ChatGPT Prompting

TL;DR: Ever wonder why your AI tools aren’t living up to the hype? The problem may not be the technology, but how you’re asking it to serve you. Teaching your employees how to write good ChatGPT prompts is your doorway to opportunity and will give you a competitive edge. “Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” — Lau Tzu You can apply this ancient wisdom to the world of AI. Substitute “fish” with “prompt templates”, and “fishing skills” with “craft effective prompts, and you have yourself an AI-flavored Tao Tenet. Equip a person with a prompt template, and they’ll solve a task; teach them to craft effective prompts, and they’ll solve thousands. <h1>Efficient Prompts Aren’t Simple</h1> Like any technology, ChatGPT is only as good as your ability to use it. To ensure its utility, you must articulate commands that give a clear and detailed picture of the desired task. It is crucial to provide specific context and precision—the more precise we are in input or instruction, the better our output becomes. Instead of requesting “Give me writing tips,” a prompt such as “Provide 10 compelling tips to improve my writing skills for business email communication” would yield a list of more targeted advice. Swap a bland “How do we boost sales?” with “brainstorm some quirky yet effective strategies for boosting our holiday sales.” Giving context is just one requirement. With time, your employees can explore more advanced techniques like few-shot learning (providing examples to guide how you want ChatGPT to respond), chain of thought (guiding the model’s thinking in sequence), and meta-prompting (asking it to write its own prompt), among many others—but that’s for another post. <a href="https://medium.com/@olgatopchaya/why-your-employees-should-be-fluent-in-chatgpt-prompting-4c4ead764fb8">Read More</a>