ChatGPT Tips

1. Clear is kind.

Bullet points are your friends!

Try to have action items up front. The beginning and end get more attention paid to them.

Starting a new conversation can be helpful if the conversation gets too long, or things go down the wrong path. You can also edit a point in the conversation and restart from there.

Giving a role can still be helpful! (Ex: you're a highly intelligent sales qualification bot, You're a phenomenal copywriter. )

2. Starter Prompts

The best way to figure out what ChatGPT can do is to try it! Your mileage may vary, so see what works for you and your usecase.

Here are some starter prompts to give you some ideas:

Look for mistakes here: [paste content or image].

How could this be improved? [paste content or screenshot]

Explain this step by step: [paste content or image].

Write a clear message I can send to my customers to encourage them to leave us a Google Review after we complete a roofing job. TONE: Should be professional, but friendly.

Extract this information into a table with columns for [column names]

Based on this screenshot, analyze these metrics and give insight.

Transcribe the text in this image [paste image]

Rewrite this with 5 variations. [you can ask to make them different in some way. Different lengths]

Advanced Example: How Runway automates lead qualification with Zapier
"Hey, you're a highly intelligent sales qualification bot. You're going to examine this raw data and provide useful context of the sales team about this lead in a very short, very succinct paragraph of plain English of how qualified the lead is and why." And then we give a description of which leads are qualified, where they're based, how much revenue they should have. And then, we have it output a string. If it's qualified, we'll say qualified leads. If it's not qualified, we'll say unqualified lead.

Finally, we'll have Zapier draft an email, and the instructions look like this. We tell ChatGPT, "You're a phenomenal copywriter. You're going to examine raw customer data and personalized below template." So I have a template here, and I've tried to give it very specific instructions. I only want it to sound like it is extremely important that a snippet is witty in tone, it's one sentence, it's authentic, it's clever. And we give instructions to say that, Hey, "Please connect what we do with the specifics of this person." So it should be very clever. And we tell them what Runway does, and we want it to output some extremely smart, clever, witty word player created reference that tastefully, subtly, cleverly connects Runway with your business.

3. Working with files

You can drag and drop a file into ChatGPT to upload it. It can accept: csv, xsl, txt, pdf, doc, jpg, png (and probably more.)

When uploading a PDF, ChatGPT only extracts the text. If you need it to look at images, you need to upload as jpg or png. You can screenshot a PDF, if you need to! ChatGPT is good at transcribing text from images.

Can't use URLs directly. Try https://www.webpilot.ai/ for web browsing. You can give a link, or a sitemap and have it crawl, and summarize, look for typos, write meta descriptions, and more! (It is not able to look at images though)

Some things to look out for ChatGPT...

- Can be wrong: read output carefully
- Can go down: Always give buffer time. Have a backup method. Try the Mac app!
- Wants to agree with you: Be cautious. Ask it to push back or find errors.
- Overuses certain words and phrases. Be on the lookout for words that and phrases that feel unnatural. (Ex: ensure, crucial, journey, unleash, dive, plethora, game-changer, discover, delve...)