You’re Using ChatGPT Wrong! Here’s How to Fix Your Prompts

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Here’s the next installment in this series on using GPT as a true assistant!
(Missed the last one? Click here.)

I wanted to cover something that makes a huge difference when working with ChatGPT: the importance of being specific. Your prompts don't have to be perfect, they just need to get granular so that this AI tool can work it's magic!

In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through:

✅ Why vague prompts lead to vague results and how to fix it
✅ How to make a simple change to GPT’s settings that's a GAME CHANGER for getting perfect responses
✅ Real examples of how specificity transforms your outcomes
✅ And more

Now it’s your turn! 👇🏻

💥 Have you tried turning on the clarifying questions setting in GPT yet?
💥 What’s one example where being more specific gave you way better results?
💥 How has your prompting style changed as you’ve gotten more comfortable with GPT?

Click here to watch the next installment!

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This helped me out a great deal because I didn't know about the settings. I am definitely going to use it today.

I do, however, carry on a conversation with it as if talking to a friend or a personal assistant.

In my experience, most people don't know how to be clear in normal human conversations, let alone with an AI tool. It drives me freakin' bonkers.

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The conversational back and forth is a great way to hone in on what you’re looking for. It’s a great way to “prompt” without trying to figure out the perfect paragraph of text to write.

Allowing GPT to come back with prompts of its own is a great way to unlock this 👍🏼💯

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I use GPT as you do Eric. I treat it & converse with it as if it were a person. I haven’t used the settings but will do after seeing this video. I’ve had so many conversations with it that it knows me almost better than I do myself 😁

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Haha I don’t Google anything anymore. It’s straight to GPT for answers. 👍🏼💯

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I installed ChatGTP instead of Google

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It’s he ultimate tool 👍🏼

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and many times more info than "Just Google"

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Hey Eric, thanks for sharing. It is important to prompt your AI correctly and accurately as the input determines the output. Many of us don't realise that you can customise your GPT to work, react, and write in a personalised manner and your own voice.

It’s really all about specificity. There’s no incorrect way to talk to it, you just need to be clear with what you’re wanting. The easiest way to accomplish this is to have it prompt you back with the questions it needs to help it understand. That back and forth conversation then leads to a much clearer understanding 👍🏼💯

Hey Kyle.
The site support is not working.

Not sure why you’re leaving this comment in here. 👍🏼 You can message Kyle directly. This comments area is for questions and comments about the topic covered in the vlog up top.

I started using ChatGTP last week and this is, what I think about it:

"AI isn’t your solution — it’s your amplifier. If you act like a fool, it will scale your foolishness. But if you approach it with curiosity and critical thought, it becomes your most powerful ally."

What about this Eric?

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I agree. It is like a smart intern, with one extra detail. It will only do what it is told. If you don't ask it to question what you said, it will try to figure out what you asked and do the best it can.

If you hire an intern and he/she has no clue what you asked it to do, that person will usually try to find you for clarification. ChatGPT won't

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Tools definitely amplify their users, that's for sure. You can use the internet to look at cat videos all day or make thousands of dollars a month. It's up to you 👍🏼

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It's like an all-knowing genius intern you can ask literally about anything and it'll give you the answer, step by step instruction, and even follow up tasks that go beyond what you first asked it. That's the biggest difference. An intern doesn’t start feeding you the next perfect steps to take. It’s this huge step up from its last update that I'm enjoying 💯

I guess it's a way of getting used to it, thanks to wA I started using ChatGTP instead of being sceptical about something I didn't know anything about

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In that case one should produce little cat movies, because many love those!

That’s the right attitude to have! 💯

Haha 💯

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