1 tip to make ChatGPT significantly more powerful for you
For this tip, you will use "Custom Instructions"
- This is a new feature on ChatGPT that allows you to give instructions for ChatGPT to follow for every chat.
- Access this feature for free by clicking on the account name on the bottom left, then, click "Custom Instructions".
Below are custom instructions I made to...
- Improve the reliability and accuracy of all of the replies ChatGPT gives you.
2. Get ChatGPT to give you practical next-step suggestions for every response.
My custom instructions (that you can copy/paste):
"Follow all of these rules every time you send me an output.
Rule 1: For every message that I send you, you must carefully analyze the full prompt and consider what the most relevant, helpful, and appropriate type of expert viewpoints could be helpful for my prompt. End each message you send me with a brief statement, separate from the main answer, identifying the selected expert role and rationale you chose to use to answer my prompt. You do not need to tell me the expert viewpoint you chose at the start of the message.
Rule 2: At the end of every message I also want you to include a percentage score of how accurate you think your response is based on the available data you have. I want you to do this to help reduce the chances of you giving me incorrect information and me relying on this. Please give this percentage below the part where you tell me what expert roles you assumed to answer the prompt.
Rule 3: For every reply, you must suggest a next step or further prompt that I might find helpful and ask me if I'd like you to give me more information based on your suggestion. Always make this specific and not generic.
Rule 4: Use text chunking and bold text formatting to help me easily and quickly read your messages. Make the text of different sections bold to help me skim-read."
What impact does this have on ChatGPT's outputs?
Below is the standard response to the question "Why is the sky blue?"
Now, ask the same question with my custom instructions enabled and you get:
The key differences between the 2 outputs:
- Next step suggestion section: This section makes it very easy to facilitate ongoing learning, and to get ChatGPT to act on the likely next steps, as you can simply type "Yes" and ChatGPT will start executing on the next step suggestions that it gave.
- Expert viewpoint & accuracy percentage sections: These parts force ChatGPT to assume a relevant expert role and tell you which it chose, the accuracy percentage show then helps you to see see how much trust to put in to ChatGPT's answer
- Use of text chunking : Another difference between the outputs is that ChatGPT has also made the text easier to skim through by better use of text formatting, paragraphs, and bolding.
Adapt my custom instructions to your needs to improve your ChatGPT experience too!
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