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The document provides guidance on effectively using ChatGPT, including tips for crafting prompts and managing conversations. It emphasizes the importance of concise prompts and focusing on a single topic to improve response quality. Additionally, it discusses limitations on conversation length to avoid confusion and potential inaccuracies in responses.

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instantly.

You can continue the chat by using the prompt bar


again. Usually, you do this to gain further insights or to get Chat-
GPT to further refine its response.

FIGURE 3-4: The ChatGPT user interface.

Following are some things you can do in a prompt that may not
be readily evident:

»» Add data in the prompt along with your question or com-


mand regarding what to do with this data. Adding data
directly in the prompt enables you to add more current info
as well as make ChatGPT responses more customizable and
on point. You can use the Browsing plug-in to connect
ChatGPT to the live internet, which will give it access to
current information. However, you may want to add data
to the prompt anyway to better focus its attention on the
problem or task at hand. However, there are limits on
prompting and response sizes, so make your prompt as
concise as possible.
»» Direct the style, tone, vocabulary level, and other factors to
shape ChatGPT’s response.
»» Command ChatGPT to assume a specific persona, job role,
or authority level in its response.

CHAPTER 3 Writing Prompts for ChatGPT 51


If you’re using ChatGPT-4, you’ll soon be able to use images in
the prompt too. ChatGPT can extract information from the image
to use in its analysis.

When you’ve finished chatting on a particular topic or task, it’s


wise to start a new chat (by clicking or tapping the New Chat
­button in the upper left). Starting a new dialogue prevents confus-
ing ChatGPT, which would otherwise treat subsequent prompts as
part of a single conversational thread. On the other hand, starting
too many new chats on the same topic or related topics can lead
the AI to use repetitious phrasing and outputs, whether or not
they apply to the new chat’s prompt.

To recap: Don’t confuse ChatGPT by chatting in one long continu-


ous thread with a lot of topic changes or by opening too many
new chats on the same topic. Otherwise, ChatGPT will probably
say something offensive or make up random and wrong answers.

When writing prompts, think of the topic or task in narrow terms.


For example, don’t have a long chat on car racing, repairs, and
maintenance. To keep ChatGPT more intently focused, narrow
your prompt to a single topic, such as determining when the vehi-
cle will be at top trade-in value so you can best offset a new car
price. Your responses will be of much higher quality.

ChatGPT may call you offensive names and make up stuff if the
chat goes on too long. Shorter conversations tend to minimize
these odd occurrences, or so most industry watchers think.

For example, after ChatGPT responses to Bing users became


unhinged and argumentative, Microsoft limited conversations
with it to 5 prompts in a row, for a total of 50 conversations a day
per user. But a few days later, it increased the limit to 6 prompts
per conversation and a total of 60 conversations per day per user.
The limits will probably increase when AI researchers can figure
out how to tame the machine to an acceptable — or at least a less
offensive — level.

Reviewing your chat history and more


On the left side of the main ChatGPT screen (refer to Figure 3-4),
under the New Chat button, is a running list of your most recent
conversations with ChatGPT. The list is there in case you want
to return to or review earlier chats. Just click the chat you want

52 ChatGPT For Dummies

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