Unleashing the Power of ChatGPT: Tips and Tricks for Maximum Results

Sure, anyone can use OpenAI’s chatbot. But with smart engineering, you can get way more interesting results.

TFD – Dive into the world of ChatGPT and unlock its full potential with expert tips and creative prompts to enhance your AI chatbot experience.

ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and other tools like them are making artificial intelligence available to the masses. We can now get all sorts of responses back on almost any topic imaginable. These chatbots can compose sonnets, write code, get philosophical, and automate tasks.

On the other hand, ChatGPT understands you when you just enter anything into it. There are methods to get the bot to produce more engaging and helpful outcomes. This “prompt engineering” is becoming a specialized skill of its own.

Sometimes all it takes is the addition of a few more words or an extra line of instruction and you can get ChatGPT responses that are a level above what everyone else is seeing—and we’ve included several examples below.

Even though ChatGPT’s free edition offers a lot of features, some of these prompts call for a paid ChatGPT Plus subscription; we’ve indicated which ones in the tip.

Obtain Your Responses in Tabular Format

If you ask, ChatGPT can provide you with answers in the form of a table. This is very beneficial for obtaining knowledge or inspiration. For instance, you could make a table with suggested meals and materials, or one with game ideas and necessary supplies, or one with the days of the week and their translations into other languages.

You can have ChatGPT make edits to the tables it has created and even generate the tables in a common format that can be read by another application (like Microsoft Excel) by using follow-up questions and natural language.

Handle Information Lists

ChatGPT can react in a number of ways if you offer it a typed list of data. Perhaps you would like it to change all the items in a list into uppercase, generate anagrams from a list of names, or arrange things in alphabetical order. At the conclusion of an answer, you can click the copy icon (the little clipboard) to send the processed text to the system clipboard if necessary.

Produce Text in Your Favorite Author’s Style

You can get ChatGPT to change from its fairly boring, matter-of-fact default tone to something far more interesting—like the writing style of your favorite author, perhaps—with a little judicious prodding.

You could go for the searing simplicity of an Ernest Hemingway or Raymond Carver story, the lyrical rhythm of a Shakespearean play, or the density of a Dickens novel. The resulting prose won’t come close to the genius of the actual authors themselves, but it’s another way of getting more creative with the output you generate.

Limit the responses you receive.

ChatGPT can really impress when it’s given restrictions to work within, so don’t be shy when it comes to telling the bot to limit its responses to a certain number of words or a certain number of paragraphs.

Anything from combining four paragraphs of material into one to asking for responses in fewer than seven characters could be used (just to keep it basic). You can adjust ChatGPT’s behavior if it is not correctly following your responses, and it will attempt again.

Remember Your Audience

Telling ChatGPT who the intended audience is for its output is another approach to modify the way it reacts. You may have seen the films on WIRED that break down complex topics for viewers of varying comprehension levels. This works in a similar way.

Even ChatGPT is an extremely skilled swift engineer. You can use this text to feed it into other AI tools you’re experimenting with, or you can ask it to generate original and efficient inputs for AI engines like Dall-E and Midjourney. Even the ChatGPT itself has prompts for asking for advice.

When it comes to generating prompts, the more detailed and specific you are about what you’re looking for the better: You can get the chatbot to extend and add more detail to your sentences, you can get it to role-play as a prompt generator for a specific AI tool, and you can tell it to refine its answers as you add more and more information.

Receive Your Results as ASCII Art

Despite ChatGPT’s text-based interface, you can ask for ASCII art to have it generate images in a similar format. That is the art that uses symbols and letters in place of colors. Although you won’t get any prizes for the results, experimenting with them is enjoyable.

The same ChatGPT guidelines are applicable: the more detailed your prompt, the better, and you can instruct the bot to add and remove elements as you proceed. But keep in mind that this is not a full-featured image editor; rather, it is an ASCII art format with limitations.

Create Your Own Pictures

If you use ChatGPT Plus, you can request any type of image—picture, sketch, or illustration—because it comes with the DALL-E image generator within. Similar to text, try to be as specific as you can about what you want to see and how you want it displayed. For example, do you want it to look like a DSLR photo or like it was taken with a watercolor painting? You can use this to have a lot of fun: Columbo would look great in a Victorian-era Jurassic Park or in a cyberpunk scenario. There are countless options.

Paste Text from Other Sources and Copy It

With ChatGPT, you don’t have to perform all the typing yourself. Pasting content from other sources is not problematic, and copy and paste is your buddy. Although the maximum word count for input is approximately 4,000, you can divide the text you send the bot into multiple chunks and yet have it recall earlier messages you’ve sent.

Perhaps one of the best ways of using this approach is to get ChatGPT to simplify text that you don’t understand—the explanation of a difficult scientific concept, for instance. Additionally, you may get it to produce content in a more fluid or captivating way, translate material into other languages, and so forth.

Take a Trip

Ask ChatGPT to make a text-based choose-your-own adventure game so you can explore. You can designate the adventure’s topic, setting, and any additional ground rules that need to be established. When we tried this out, we found ourselves wandering through a spooky castle, with something sinister apparently hiding in the shadows.

Give Workable Examples

Giving ChatGPT some information to work with before you ask a question is another method to enhance the answers you receive from it. For example, you could provide it with a list of book summaries along with their respective genres, and then ask it to assign the appropriate genre to a new synopsis. You might also share your favorite hobbies with ChatGPT to receive new recommendations.

There’s no secret word combination you need to utilize in this situation. As always, communicate naturally, and ChatGPT will comprehend what you’re saying. At the beginning of your prompt, state that you are offering examples. Then, inform the bot that you would like a response that takes those instances into consideration.

Ask for Feedback

You can use ChatGPT to get feedback on anything you write yourself, including emails you send to friends, short stories you enter in contests, and prompts you enter into the AI bot. Seek advice on anything you want to carefully consider, such as readability, tone, grammar, spelling, and so on.

The aforementioned passage was deemed straightforward and effective by ChatGPT, however it lacked a call to action at the end. Give this prompt a try right now!

Play a Role-Playing Game

In the same way that ChatGPT can mimic the style of certain authors that it knows about, it can also play a role: a frustrated salesman, an excitable teenager (you’ll most likely get a lot of emoji and abbreviations back), or the iconic western film star John Wayne.

There are a gazillion roles to choose from. Although these prompts may not have many real-world uses, they do offer valuable insight into the possibilities of these AI chatbots.

Use ChatGPT in the same way as Google

You can search for answers by typing questions into ChatGPT that you might otherwise type into Google: Consider “how much should I budget for a day of sightseeing in London?” or, for instance, “What are the best ways to prepare for a job interview?” Nearly anything will elicit some kind of response; however, as is often the case, don’t assume that AI answers are always 100% accurate.

When using the premium ChatGPT Plus tool, it will conduct a web search using Bing and provide links to the results it finds. If you’re using ChatGPT’s free version, the responses may be a little dated or less trustworthy because it will be mining the data it has been trained on.

Receive Responses That Go Beyond The Merit of Their Components

If you offer ChatGPT some elements to work with before requesting a response, your answers will be much better. They might be anything else, or they may be actual ingredients (make a recipe with what’s left in the fridge).

Thus, don’t only want a murder mystery. Enumerate the characters that will make an appearance as well. Ask about the city you’re going to, the kinds of sites you want to see, and who you’ll be traveling with, rather than just asking for suggestions on where to go in a city.

Set Up ChatGPT for Success

It’s not necessarily necessary for your prompts to cause ChatGPT to create something from nothing: You can give it a start, then let the AI take care of the rest. The model will build upon the information you’ve already written by using hints from it.

This can be useful for everything from writing a poem to constructing a website. Moreover, you can ask ChatGPT to revise its response after you submit it.

Hear Arguments from Both Sides

Use ChatGPT to help provide some gray between the black and white in online disputes—you’ve probably observed that these days, disagreements tend to lean toward the binary. If you ask it to, it can present arguments for all sides of a debate, including advantages and disadvantages.

ChatGPT’s ability to vacillate impressively spans a wide range of topics, from philosophy and politics to sports and the arts. This ability to do so helps you comprehend complex subjects from a variety of angles.