You’re using ChatGPT wrong

you're using chat GPT wrong but it's not your fault whenever a new feature gets released self-proclaimed experts share their best practices to capitalize on the hype that's all fine and well except at that point most of their advice haven't gone through enough testing to produce consistently good results let's take custom instructions for example a powerful feature available for both paid and free users you might have heard it's best to be as specific as possible include your values and principles your Lear learning style the city you live in the apps you prefer to use this is

terrible advice because custom instructions acts like an umbrella that should cover all of your use cases for example if my custom instructions were super specific and optimized for writing YouTube scripts the relevancy of the chat PT outputs for my work and personal life will actually decrease here's what to do instead for the first box up top keep it simple with three sentences first a snapshot of who I am professionally I'm a product marketing manager in Tech second insert your secondary Persona who are you outside of work in my spare time I create online content on

these topics and third my personality and my interests I'm all about efficiency productivity and selfimprovement that's it the bottom field is extremely important and here's a hack find an online Creator who's articulate smart capable Charming charismatic basically someone you respect admire and want to emulate let's go with Ali abdall head on over to his newsletter letter page and open up the last two links one two then head on back to chaty BT start a new chat and input this prompt I'm going to share two blog posts written by Ali abdal analyze the blog post and

give me a set of instructions I can use to write in exactly the same tone writing style humor reading level and delivery here are the blog posts blog post one paste blog post two paste and hit enter obviously it doesn't have to be a newsletter it could be an online art articles LinkedIn posts or even speech transcripts from your favorite comedian you got to hit the like And subscribe button if you're also a fan of Trevor Noah by the way if not hit the dislike button twice now instead of copy pasting all of this into

your custom instructions pick and choose the ones you Vibe with the most for example use casual language bakeer post into digestible sections definitely good ones to include uh light sarcasm cheeky remarks might not be for everyone right you get the idea copy paste the ones you select into the second custom instruction box down here now chbt knows just enough about your background and preferences to provide relevant outputs for any and all of your use cases moving on I'm 100% sure those of us with no coding experience have made the second mistake with Chachi BT not

writing code to automate tasks to give some context I studied business in college and the closest I've ever gotten to writing code is typing in cheat codes in Warcraft 3 not not that I cheat I needed to cheat to win I want every game game I was a pro that was great and yet with the help of chat BT I've written a script that allows me to click a button in Google Docs to generate a new page before every single one-on-one meeting I have with my manager and I have no idea what any of this

code means all you have to do is to tell Chacha BT hey write a Google app script for my 101 meeting notes in Google Docs that does the following add a new page with heading two that says date today's date add a heading three notes followed by three bullet points add a heading three action items followed by a numbered list create a button I can click before every meeting to generate this new page and not only will chbt generate the entire script without you having to make any edits it will also provide step-by-step instructions on

how to implement this for yourself I won't bore you with the details but basically within most Google applications you can click on the extensions menu to open up the apps script copy and paste the code jbt generated rename it click save and run the script it's that easy Pro tip you can even make simple tweaks yourself for example this scripts outputs a date whenever you click on the button in this long date format month date year I can change this to a shorter month date year save run we can now all apply for software engineer

roles at Google you're welcome Jokes Aside we're now only limited by our imagination for example I also created a button Google slides that standardizes the font and font size for all speaker notes since different colleagues might copy and paste their slides into one presentation super Handy by the way this video is not sponsored but it is supported by those of you who subscribe to my paid productivity newsletter on Google tips Link in the description to learn more the third way we're using chat GPT wrong is falling into the first try fallacy this is the unrealistic

expectation that we get perfect answers from Chachi BT after just our initial prompt yes Jeff I know we should follow up but it takes so much time and there's no standardized framework for following with chbt it's just too much extra effort good news instead of all that extra effort all you have to do is to add this sentence at the end of your prompts ask me five questions that would improve the response you'll be giving me for example as a marketing manager I pay my vendors in a variety of currencies and I keep track of

all these payments in Google Sheets I ask Chachi BT is there a way for me to automate tracking so that even if I input the amount in its original currency there will be a column that automatically converts the amount to US Dollars USD ask me five questions that would improve the response you'll be giving me instead of responding to my request immediately Chachi clarifies his understanding by asking me questions like hey are you cool with using App script if yes I'll write you a script you no code genius if not we'll stick with formulas you

lowly peasant or other questions like do you need real-time currency conversion if yes we'll use option A if not then option b after I provide the secondary round of input chat jpt gives me an extremely relevant response if you don't believe me try using the same prompt without the hey ask me five questions sentence and compare the results the fourth mistake I see is what I call the summary only shortfall where the majority of users are still only using chachy BT to summarize information instead of distilling actionable insights for example let's say you come across

this article on holiday shopping insights you can select all text copy ask chachy BT to summarize the article paste and it'll do a fine job but there are two small changes you can make to get exponentially better outputs first to get personalized insights that are specific to you try this I'll share an article Below on holiday shopping insights how does the information in this article apply to a insert your role paid media marketing manager responsible for increasing brand awareness here is the article and you paste the article I'm now provided with actionable next steps like

focusing on gen Z Shoppers using YouTube because more than half of genz use YouTube for holiday shopping wow I guess that's not too surprising Pro tip instead of copy and pasting paid users can upload a PDF onto chyb directly and the prompts work in the exact same way use case number two is my favorite it saved me so much time and it's to have a dedicated Q&A session with the written content type this into Chachi BT assume the role of a senior business analyst with over 20 years of experience for the rest of this conversation

I like to engage in a Q&A session where you'll provide insights analyses and answers based on the uploaded report in PDF format if you understand please respond with yes great now instead of spending 30 40 minutes reading this entire report by LinkedIn I can simply ask targeted questions hey does the report provide any evidence there layoffs because of AI and chat jbt responds citing what it has read in the report I can even stress test this by asking for something I know is not included in the report hey does a report mention AI tools like

Google Bart or perplexity AI since LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft I highly doubt those two tools will be mentioned and here we see that uh yes the report focuses on the impact of Chachi BT but the report does not specifically mention Google Bart or perplexity the fifth mistake I see people making the prompt overload paradox where we consume a lot of chachy BT related content we save them offline somewhere but we forget to optimize or even use those prompts in our daily tasks here's a simple solution and no it's not to click out this video

you got to keep watching step one tell Chachi BT to assume the role of an experienced prompt engineer with over 20 years of experience I am a insert your role working on insert your responsibility with the goal of your objective give me 10 Chachi BT prompts that will help me become more productive Ive in my job step two pick a maximum of three prompts you can see yourself using every day at work for me that would be this competitor analysis one for sure uh this audience Insight one and this Crea a survey to get feedback

from my audience then focus on using those three prompts at work for 2 weeks and refine them using the perfect prompt formula I made entire video here so that you can actually become more productive see you on the next video in the meantime have a great one