You’re using ChatGPT wrong
Summary
TLDRThis video script debunks common misconceptions about using ChatGPT, emphasizing the importance of personalized and efficient usage rather than following generic advice. It guides viewers on setting up custom instructions that align with their professional and personal identities, leveraging the power of emulation for style and tone in writing, and utilizing ChatGPT for code automation without prior experience. Additionally, it introduces strategies to enhance interaction with ChatGPT, like asking for clarification questions to refine responses and extracting actionable insights from content rather than mere summaries. The script also tackles the pitfalls of prompt overload and offers solutions to optimize ChatGPT prompts for increased productivity and relevance in users' tasks.
Takeaways
- 😀 Avoid overly specific custom instructions in ChatGPT; aim for broad usability covering both professional and personal interests.
- 👩💻 For custom instructions, provide a brief professional snapshot, your interests outside of work, and your personality traits or interests.
- 🔍 Utilize online content from creators you admire to guide ChatGPT in mimicking their style and tone for your own writing.
- 🤖 Even without coding experience, you can use ChatGPT to automate tasks, like creating scripts for Google Docs.
- 🎯 Adding a prompt for ChatGPT to ask you five clarifying questions can significantly improve the relevance and accuracy of its responses.
- 📊 Rather than just summarizing information, ask ChatGPT for actionable insights specific to your role or industry.
- 🔑 Use ChatGPT for dedicated Q&A sessions to efficiently extract insights and analyses from lengthy reports or documents.
- 🚀 Avoid 'prompt overload' by selecting and focusing on a few highly relevant ChatGPT prompts to enhance productivity in your specific job function.
- 💡 Regularly refine your use of ChatGPT prompts based on feedback and outcomes to continuously improve the quality and relevance of the assistance.
- 🌟 Embrace the versatility of ChatGPT by exploring its potential in various applications, from writing assistance to task automation and knowledge extraction.
Q & A
Why is being overly specific in custom instructions for ChatGPT considered bad advice?
-Being overly specific in custom instructions can limit the AI's ability to provide relevant outputs across a broader range of use cases. Instead, it's recommended to keep custom instructions more general to cover all potential use cases effectively.
How can one optimize the use of ChatGPT for different aspects of their life?
-Optimize use by keeping the initial custom instructions simple, covering professional background, personal interests, and preferences. Additionally, incorporating writing styles or tones from admired creators can help tailor ChatGPT's outputs more closely to one's preferences.
What is a practical application of ChatGPT for users without coding experience?
-Users without coding experience can use ChatGPT to write scripts for automating tasks, such as generating meeting notes in Google Docs, demonstrating that with clear instructions, ChatGPT can enable anyone to create useful automation.
How can adding a prompt for ChatGPT to ask clarifying questions improve its responses?
-Asking ChatGPT to ask five clarifying questions can significantly improve the relevance and accuracy of its responses by allowing it to better understand the context and specific requirements of the request.
What is the 'first try fallacy' in using ChatGPT, and how can it be overcome?
-The 'first try fallacy' is the unrealistic expectation of getting perfect answers from ChatGPT on the first attempt. This can be overcome by prompting ChatGPT to ask clarifying questions, enhancing the quality of its responses.
Can ChatGPT be used for tasks beyond summarizing information?
-Yes, ChatGPT can be utilized to distill actionable insights from information, automate workflows, and generate creative content, demonstrating its versatility beyond mere summarization tasks.
How does one ensure that ChatGPT's outputs remain relevant to their specific needs?
-Ensuring relevance involves setting up custom instructions that broadly cover your interests and needs, using examples or styles you admire, and refining prompts based on specific tasks or goals.
What is the benefit of using ChatGPT for generating Google Apps scripts?
-The benefit is that it allows individuals without programming knowledge to automate tasks within Google applications, showcasing ChatGPT's ability to democratize access to automation and coding.
How can one personalize ChatGPT's responses to align with specific writing styles or tones?
-Personalization can be achieved by providing ChatGPT with examples of the desired writing style or tone, such as blog posts or articles, and asking it to mimic these in its outputs.
What strategy is recommended for selecting custom instructions to enhance productivity with ChatGPT?
-It's recommended to pick and choose aspects of advice that resonate with your preferences and needs, rather than adopting every suggestion, to tailor ChatGPT's functionality to your specific use cases.
Outlines
🔍 Maximizing ChatGPT's Custom Instructions
This segment emphasizes the misuse of ChatGPT, particularly in the implementation of custom instructions. The advice often given to new users to be overly specific in their custom instructions is critiqued for its potential to narrow down ChatGPT's usefulness across various applications. Instead, a more generalized approach is recommended, where users provide a brief overview of their professional background, interests, and the type of persona they embody outside of work. Furthermore, it introduces a hack for enhancing ChatGPT's output by using the writing style of admired online creators as a model for ChatGPT to emulate. This is achieved by analyzing their blog posts or articles to inform ChatGPT on how to match their tone, style, and delivery. The goal is to tailor ChatGPT's responses to be more relevant and useful across all of the user's activities without being overly restrictive.
🛠 Overcoming Common ChatGPT Usage Mistakes
This paragraph identifies several common mistakes users make with ChatGPT and offers practical solutions to each. First, it addresses the 'first try fallacy,' encouraging users to prompt ChatGPT to ask clarifying questions for better-tailored responses. It then criticizes the 'summary only shortfall,' where users rely solely on ChatGPT for summaries, missing out on extracting actionable insights. By adjusting prompts, users can receive personalized advice relevant to their specific roles and challenges. The segment also tackles the 'prompt overload paradox,' a scenario where users collect but fail to effectively utilize various prompts. A methodical approach is suggested, where users focus on a few highly relevant prompts, refining them through usage to enhance productivity. Additionally, the script mentions the underutilization of ChatGPT for automating tasks, demonstrating how even those without coding experience can leverage ChatGPT to create functional scripts for practical applications, thus broadening the scope of ChatGPT's utility beyond mere content generation.
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Keywords
💡Custom Instructions
💡Productivity
💡Automation
💡Efficiency
💡Content Creation
💡Follow-up Questions
💡Personalization
💡Actionable Insights
💡Script Writing
💡Self-Improvement
Highlights
Custom instructions should cover all use cases, not just be overly specific to one domain.
Keep the top box of custom instructions simple with a three-sentence snapshot covering professional background, secondary persona, and personal interests.
Use the writings of admired online creators to guide the tone and style of your outputs.
Avoid the fallacy of expecting perfect answers from the first try; use follow-up questions to refine outputs.
Utilize coding scripts to automate tasks, even without prior coding experience.
Implementing scripts in Google Docs and Slides to streamline workflows.
Overcoming the 'first try fallacy' by asking ChatGPT to clarify with questions for better responses.
The 'summary only shortfall' where users miss out on distilling actionable insights from summaries.
Customizing prompts to extract personalized insights and actionable steps relevant to one's role.
Saving time with dedicated Q&A sessions with ChatGPT, assuming roles of experienced professionals.
Avoiding the 'prompt overload paradox' by selecting and refining a few effective prompts for daily use.
The benefit of assuming specific roles to enhance the relevance and specificity of ChatGPT's responses.
Encouragement to experiment and refine prompts for increased productivity and task automation.
The importance of continuous interaction and refinement with ChatGPT to get the most out of its capabilities.
Highlighting the versatility of ChatGPT in professional, personal, and creative applications.
Transcripts
you're using chat GPT wrong but it's not
your fault whenever a new feature gets
released self-proclaimed experts share
their best practices to capitalize on
the hype that's all fine and well except
at that point most of their advice
haven't gone through enough testing to
produce consistently good results let's
take custom instructions for example a
powerful feature available for both paid
and free users you might have heard it's
best to be as specific as possible
include your values and principles
you're learning in style the city you
live in the apps you prefer to use this
is terrible advice because custom
instructions acts like an umbrella that
should cover all of your use cases for
example if my custom instructions were
super specific and optimized for writing
YouTube scripts the relevancy of the
Chach PT outputs for my work and
personal life will actually decrease
here's what to do instead for the first
box up top keep it simple with three
sentences first a snapshot of who I am
professionally I'm a product marketing
manager in Tech second insert your
secondary Persona who are you outside of
work in my spare time I create online
content on these topics and third my
personality and my interests I'm all
about efficiency productivity and
selfimprovement that's it the bottom
field is extremely important and here's
a hack find an online Creator who's
articulate smart capable Charming
charismatic basically someone you
respect admire and want to emulate let's
go with Ali abdall head on over to his
newslet page and open up the last two
links one two then head on back to chat
gbt start a new chat and input this
prompt I'm going to share two blog posts
written by Ali abdall analyze the blog
post and give me a set of instructions I
can use to write in exactly the same
tone writing style humor reading level
and delivery here are the blog posts
blog post one paste blog post two paste
and hit enter obviously it doesn't have
to be a newsletter it could be an online
art articles LinkedIn posts or even
speech transcripts from your favorite
comedian you got to hit the like And
subscribe button if you're also a fan of
Trevor Noah by the way if not hit the
dislike button twice now instead of copy
pasting all of this into your custom
instructions pick and choose the ones
you Vibe with the most for example use
casual language bakeer post into
digestible sections definitely good ones
to include uh light sarcasm cheeky
remarks might not be for everyone right
you get the idea copy paste the ones you
select into the second custom
instruction box down here now chat gbt
knows just enough about your background
and preferences to provide relevant
outputs for any and all of your use
cases moving on I'm 100% sure those of
us with no coding experience have made
the second mistake with Chachi BT not
writing code to automate tasks to give
some context I studied business in
college and the closest I've ever gotten
to writing code is typing in cheat codes
in Warcraft 3 not not that I cheat I
needed to cheat to win I want every game
I was a pro that was great and yet with
the help of chat BT I've written a
script that allows me to click a button
in Google Docs to generate a new page
before every single one-on-one meeting I
have with my manager and I have no idea
what any of this code means all you have
to do is to tell Chacha BT hey write a
Google app script for my 101 meeting
notes in Google Docs that does the
following add a new page with heading
two that says date today's date add a
heading three notes followed by three
bullet points add a heading three action
items followed by a numbered list create
a button I can click before every
meeting to generate this new page and
not only will chbt generate the entire
script without you having to make any
edits it will also provide step-by-step
instructions on how to implement this
for yourself I won't bore you with the
details but basically within most Google
applications you can click on the
extensions menu to open up the apps
script copy and paste the code jbt
generated rename it click save and run
the script it's that easy Pro tip you
can even make simple tweaks yourself for
example this scripts outputs a date
whenever you click on the button in this
long date format month date year I can
change this to a shorter month date year
save
run we can now all apply for software
engineer roles at Google you're welcome
Jokes Aside we're now only limited by
our imagination for example I also
created a button Google slides that
standardizes the font and font size for
all speaker notes since different
colleagues might copy and paste their
slides into one presentation super Handy
by the way this video is not sponsored
but it is supported by those of you who
subscribe to my paid productivity
newsletter on Google tips Link in the
description to learn more the third way
we're using Chad GPT wrong is falling
into the first try fallacy this is the
unrealistic expectation that we get
perfect answers from Chachi BT after
just our initial prompt yes Jeff I know
we should follow up but it takes so much
time and there's no standardized
framework for following with chbt it's
just too much extra effort good news
instead of all that extra effort all you
have to do is to add this sentence at
the end of your prompts ask me five
questions that would improve the
response you'll be giving me for example
as a marketing manager I pay my vendors
in a variety of currencies and I keep
track of all these payments in Google
Sheets I ask Chachi BT is there a way
for me to automate tracking so that even
if I input the amount in its original
currency there would be a column that
automatically converts the amount to US
dollar USD ask me five questions that
would improve the response you'll be
giving me instead of responding to my
request immediately Chachi clarifies his
understanding by asking me questions
like hey are you cool with using App
script if yes I'll write you a script
you no C genius
if not we'll stick with formulas you
lowly peasant or other questions like do
you need real-time currency conversion
if yes we'll use option A if not then
option b after I provide this secondary
round of input chat jpt gives me an
extremely relevant response if you don't
believe me try using the same prompt
without the hey ask me five questions
sentence and compare the results the
fourth mistake I see is what I call the
summary only shortfall where the
majority of users are still only using
chachy BT to summarize information
instead of distill ing actionable
insights for example let's say you come
across this article on holiday shopping
insights you can select all text copy
ask chachy BT to summarize the article
paste and it'll do a fine job but there
are two small changes you can make to
get exponentially better outputs first
to get personalized insights that are
specific to you try this I'll share an
article Below on holiday shopping
insights how does the information in
this article apply to a insert your role
paid media marketing manager responsible
for increasing brand awareness here is
the article and you paste the article
I'm now provided with actionable next
steps like focusing on gen Z Shoppers
using YouTube because more than half of
genen Z use YouTube for holiday shopping
wow I guess that's not too surprising
Pro tip instead of copy and pasting paid
users can upload a PDF onto chb directly
and the prompts work in the exact same
way use case number two is my favorite
it saved me so much time and it's to
have a dedicated ated Q&A session with
the written content type this into
Chachi BT assume the role of a senior
business analyst with over 20 years of
experience for the rest of this
conversation I like to engage in a Q&A
session where you'll provide insights
analyses and answers based on the
uploaded report imp pedf format if you
understand please respond with yes great
now instead of spending 30 40 minutes
reading this entire report by LinkedIn I
can simply ask targeted questions hey
does the report provide any evidence
there be layoffs because of AI and chbt
responds citing what it has read in the
report I can even stress test this by
asking for something I know is not
included in the report hey does a report
mention AI tools like Google Bart or
perplexity AI since LinkedIn is owned by
Microsoft I highly doubt those two tools
will be mentioned and here we see that
uh yes the report focuses on the impact
of chbt but the report does not
specifically mention Google Bart or
perplexity the fifth mistake I see
people making the prompt overload
paradox where we consume a lot of chbt
related content we save them offline
somewhere but we forget to optimize or
even use those prompts in our daily
tasks here's a simple solution and no
it's not to click out this video you got
to keep watching step one tell Chachi BT
to assume the role of an experienced
prompt engineer with over 20 years of
experience I am a insert your role
working on insert your responsibility
with the goal of your objective give me
10 Chachi BT prompts that will help me
become more productive in my job step
two pick a maximum of three prompts you
can see yourself using every day at work
for me that would be this competitor
analysis one for sure uh this audience
Insight one and this Crea a survey to
get feedback from my audience then focus
on using those three prompts at work for
2 weeks and refine them using the
perfect prompt formula I'm made entire
video here so that you can actually
become more productive see you on the
next video in the
meantime have a great one
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