Master the Perfect ChatGPT Prompt Formula (in just 8 minutes)! — Transcript

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1. 0:00I don't usually overhype myself but in
2. 0:02this video we're going over the only
3. 0:03formula you will ever need to master
4. 0:06prompting on chat BT and Google bard so
5. 0:09let's get started hey friends welcome
6. 0:11back to channel if you're new here my
7. 0:12name is Jeff I work full-time in Tech
8. 0:14and if you're anything like me a couple
9. 0:15months ago you know prompting is an
10. 0:17important skill to learn but you're not
11. 0:19exactly sure why some prompts generate
12. 0:22outputs that are super generic While
13. 0:24others give you precisely what you're
14. 0:26looking for since then I've spent
15. 0:27hundreds of hours taking prompt
16. 0:29engineering courses and applying what
17. 0:30I've learned in my daily life and so in
18. 0:33this video I'm sharing these six
19. 0:34building blocks that make up a good
20. 0:35prompt so that you can use this formula
21. 0:38to consistently generate high quality
22. 0:41outputs first it's critical to not only
23. 0:43know what the six components are task
24. 0:45context exemplars Persona format and
25. 0:47tone but also know that there's an order
26. 0:50of importance to these six components to
27. 0:53show you what I mean let's use this
28. 0:54simple example I'm a 70kg male give me a
29. 0:573-month training program the first part
30. 0:59is context followed by the task the
31. 1:01reason why the task is higher up in the
32. 1:03formula hierarchy is if we just input
33. 1:05the task without the context there's
34. 1:07still some sort of meaningful output but
35. 1:09if we just give Chachi PT the context
36. 1:12nothing really happens put another way
37. 1:14it's mandatory to have a task in your
38. 1:16prompt it's important to include
39. 1:18relevant context and exemplars and it's
40. 1:21nice to have Persona format and tone
41. 1:23when you think of writing your prompt go
42. 1:26down this mental checklist so this
43. 1:28formula will act as a constant reminder
44. 1:30for you to include just enough relevant
45. 1:32information when writing prompts and as
46. 1:34you'll see in this next part you do not
47. 1:36need all six components in every prompt
48. 1:39to have a good output now let's break
49. 1:41down each building block with specific
50. 1:42examples starting with the task the rule
51. 1:44of thumb is to always start the task
52. 1:46sentence with an action verb generate
53. 1:49give write analyze Etc and clearly
54. 1:51articulate what your end goal is it
55. 1:54could be one simple task like generating
56. 1:56a three-month training program or a
57. 1:58complex three-step task like analyzing
58. 2:01hundreds of user feedback sharing the
59. 2:03top three takeaways and categorizing the
60. 2:05feedback based on the team responsible
61. 2:07for following off the second component
62. 2:09context is the trickiest to get right
63. 2:11because technically there's an infinite
64. 2:13amount of information you can give so I
65. 2:15found asking myself these three
66. 2:17questions to be super helpful in coming
67. 2:19up with just enough information to get a
68. 2:21good result from Chachi BT first what's
69. 2:24the user's background second what do
70. 2:26success look like and third what
71. 2:28environment are they in back to the
72. 2:30workout example we now have I'm a 70kg
73. 2:33male looking to put on 5 kg of muscle
74. 2:35mass over the next 3 months I only have
75. 2:37time to go to the gym twice a week and
76. 2:38for 1 hour each session give me a 3month
77. 2:41training program to follow could I have
78. 2:43added more background information of
79. 2:45course only prioritize the muscle groups
80. 2:47that make me look good at
81. 2:48Instagram but the key to staying
82. 2:50productive with chat gbtm Bard is giving
83. 2:53just enough information to constrain the
84. 2:55endless possibilities by the way
85. 2:57although this video is not sponsored it
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89. 3:03in the description to learn more moving
90. 3:05over to the exemplars component it's
91. 3:07just a fancy way of saying examples
92. 3:10basically all the research on large
93. 3:11language models llms have shown that
94. 3:13including examples within the prompt
95. 3:16drastically improves the quality of the
96. 3:19output starting with a simple example
97. 3:21this is a py written bullet point from a
98. 3:23resume we can now ask chat GPT to
99. 3:26rewrite this bullet point using this
100. 3:28structure I accomplish X by to measure y
101. 3:30that resulted in Z which is actually
102. 3:32best practice by the way so actually do
103. 3:33this in your resume for example I
104. 3:35lowered Hospital mortality rate by 10%
105. 3:37by educating nurses in new protocols
106. 3:39which translates to 200 lives saved per
107. 3:41year here's a slightly more complicated
108. 3:44example for interview prep based on my
109. 3:46own resume write me an answer to the
110. 3:48interview question what's your biggest
111. 3:49weakness use the star answer framework
112. 3:52situation task action and results here
113. 3:55instead of using a full-blown interview
114. 3:56answer as an example which would be
115. 3:58Overkill the star framework acts as an
116. 4:01example structure for chat gbt to follow
117. 4:04last example let's say you need to write
118. 4:05a job description you give some context
119. 4:07around the opening and ask chat apt to
120. 4:09reference an existing job description if
121. 4:11I use this one I found on LinkedIn the
122. 4:13output will follow the same formatting
123. 4:15and use the same professional hre
124. 4:17language saving me a bunch of time main
125. 4:20takeaway here exemplars are not
126. 4:22necessary for every prompt but including
127. 4:24a relevant example or framework will
128. 4:27greatly improve the quality of your
129. 4:29output moving along the Persona
130. 4:31component is basically who you want cha
131. 4:33PT and bar to be and the pro tip here is
132. 4:36to think of someone you wish you had
133. 4:38instant access to with the task you're
134. 4:40facing if you injured yourself working
135. 4:42out that person might be a physical
136. 4:43therapist with experience helping
137. 4:45athletes recover if you're a jobseeker
138. 4:47that person might be a recruiter or Hing
139. 4:49manager if you're working on a creative
140. 4:51brief that person might be a senior
141. 4:52product marketing manager who's great at
142. 4:54storytelling Pro tip you can also name
143. 4:57specific individuals but I found the
144. 4:58results to be good only when they're
145. 5:00famous enough like Warren Buffett Steve
146. 5:02Jobs Jeff
147. 5:04Sue by the way I just have to share this
148. 5:06we have a team offsite with a
149. 5:07superheroes theme so I asked Chach PT to
150. 5:09draft an email from Batman and it even
151. 5:11included things like please let Alfred
152. 5:13know and signed off as The Dark Knight
153. 5:16um so fictional characters work as well
154. 5:18and I'm actually going to use this the
155. 5:19fifth component format the pro tip here
156. 5:22is to literally close your eyes and
157. 5:24visualize how exactly you want the end
158. 5:26result to look like a million likes on
159. 5:28my thir bomb Instagram photo damn it
160. 5:30didn't work back to the user feedback
161. 5:32example I don't want to read each
162. 5:34sentence so I asked chachy BT to take
163. 5:36all the feedback and output a table with
164. 5:38three headers the original feedback the
165. 5:41team responsible for following up and
166. 5:43priority and now I can copy this
167. 5:46directly and paste it into a Google
168. 5:48sheet store by priority and filter by
169. 5:51team other common formats include emails
170. 5:53bullet points and code blocks but the
171. 5:55one I found to be the most useful as a
172. 5:57full-time working professional is
173. 5:58paragraphs and and markdown for example
174. 6:01I just received a lengthy industry
175. 6:02report from my director first give me
176. 6:04the three key takeaways then summarize
177. 6:06based on topic use H2 as section headers
178. 6:10here is the report Pro tip whenever I
179. 6:11use chash gbt to proofread any document
180. 6:14I specify that all changes need to be
181. 6:16bolded so I can easily see exactly what
182. 6:19has been changed let's quickly go
183. 6:21through the last component tone before
184. 6:23we put all this together in one example
185. 6:25the good news is tone is easy to
186. 6:27understand use a casual or formal tone
187. 6:29of voice give me a witty output uh show
188. 6:33enthusiasm sound pessimistic the bad
189. 6:36news is we're usually not very good at
190. 6:38recalling the thousands of potential
191. 6:40adjectives and adverbs at a moment's
192. 6:42notice so here's a pro tip tell tra BT
193. 6:45the feeling you're going for for example
194. 6:47I'm writing an email to a team I haven't
195. 6:49worked with before and I want to be
196. 6:50taken seriously without coming off as
197. 6:52too stuck up and cringey can you please
198. 6:55give me a list of five tone keywords I
199. 6:57can include in a prompt for chbt and
200. 6:59look now in the actual prompt I can say
201. 7:01use clear and concise language and write
202. 7:04in a friendly yet confident tone putting
203. 7:06all this together let's look at this
204. 7:08comprehensive prompt you are a senior
205. 7:10product marketing manager at Apple
206. 7:12Persona and you have just unveiled the
207. 7:14latest Apple product in collaboration
208. 7:16with Tesla the Apple car and received
209. 7:1812,000 pre-orders which is 200% higher
210. 7:20than Target context write an email to
211. 7:23your boss Tim cookie sharing this
212. 7:25positive news task and format the email
213. 7:28should include a tldr tool long didn't
214. 7:30read section project background why this
215. 7:32product came into existence business
216. 7:34results section quantifiable business
217. 7:36metrics and end with a section thanking
218. 7:39the product and Engineering teams
219. 7:41example structure use clear and concise
220. 7:44language and write in a confident yet
221. 7:46friendly tone tone note that if I had an
222. 7:49existing email to reference I could
223. 7:50delete the instructions around the
224. 7:53structure and simply tell chbt the email
225. 7:56should follow the exact same format as
226. 7:57the one I will share below and paste the
227. 8:00email from before by the way you can
228. 8:02compare the output from this prompt to
229. 8:03that of a simpler prompt I just launched
230. 8:06a new product the Apple car I received
231. 8:0812,000 pre-orders please run an email to
232. 8:10my boss with this update there's a
233. 8:12pretty big difference in terms of how
234. 8:13generic and usable the end result is now
235. 8:16that you know the basics of prompting my
236. 8:18next video is going to take you from
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240. 8:25see you on the next video in the
241. 8:26meantime have a great one