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A guide to prompting AI (for what it is worth)

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Whenever I open up Twitter, I am exposed to a new breed of hustle — the “prompt influencer” — promising me that 99% of people use GPT wrong and that they will provide the secret prompts that, if I use them in ChatGPT, will vanquish evil and make me a million dollars. So I want to share my prompt secret with you, for free. Ready? There are no secret prompts. In fact, I think the emphasis on prompting as the key to using AI is a mistake for a number of reasons. But, I also have come to realize that there are some things people don’t understand about prompts1, which can help make the task of using AI easier. So I do want to share those. But first, why you shouldn’t take prompting that seriously: Being “good at prompting” is a temporary state of affairs. The current AI systems are already very good at figuring out your intent, and they are getting better. Prompting is not going to be that important for that much longer. In fact, it already isn’t in GPT-4 and Bing. If you want to do somethi

A guide to prompting AI (for what it is worth) A little bit of magic, but mostly just practice Ethan Mollick Apr 26, 2023 398 27 31 Share Whenever I open up Twitter, I am exposed to a new breed of hustle — the “prompt influencer” — promising me that 99% of people use GPT wrong and that they will provide the secret prompts that, if I use them in ChatGPT, will vanquish evil and make me a million dollars. So I want to share my prompt secret with you, for free. Ready? There are no secret prompts. In fact, I think the emphasis on prompting as the key to using AI is a mistake for a number of reasons

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