AI tools like ChatGPT are highly flexible (for certain tasks).  You can adjust the structure and type of answer you receive by slightly changing the prompt.

There is an art and a science behind creating useful prompts for AI tools like ChatGPT.

You’ve gotten past the skepticism about AI.  You’ve chosen to start using ChatGPT because that’s what everyone keeps saying you are ‘supposed to do’.  But you don’t know where to start.

If you are a business owner, then you know the value of understanding your customers.  The better you understand your customers, the better experience you can provide for them.  

Here is a short prompt that you can use as a starting point for naming your next company -

One of the benefits of ChatGPT and similar tools is speed.  They can create and output things quickly.  Usually much faster than you would if you did it from scratch.

A lot of times the output isn’t what you are looking for. The good news with that is that you can use...

You can use ChatGPT to improve a piece of writing or just make it different.  

This can be an email, a blog post, marketing copy, a grant proposal, a contract (be careful with legal docs though), a white paper, a book review, etc. Any type of writing that you can feed into...

If you aren’t getting the results that you want, it might be because you are using the wrong words.  A slight change in the words that you are using could change everything.

It can be easy to forget that you are talking to a machine when using tools like ChatGPT. You can...

Consider multi-step prompts if you have a series of questions, tasks that require the output of previous tasks, problems that cannot be solved with a single response, etc. 

Multi-steps prompts are exactly what they sound like - prompts with more than one (“multi”) step.

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Sometimes, you aren’t using ChatGPT-type tools for creativity. Sometimes, you have a focused situation and want the “correct” answer.  

In these cases, a close-ended question is a better choice.  

Sidebar, is it “close-ended” or “closed-ended”? I’ve seen both and I don’t...