Turn half-baked sentences into expert-level prompts
I receives a commission to write down prompts and my friends comprehend it. That’s why, when certainly one of them asked “Can’t we just use ChatGPT to compute the ultimate vote?” all eyes turned to the bald dude within the room.
There have been eight of us and we’d just finished tasting six different Galettes des Rois. The “Kings’ Cake” is a conventional French pastry, typically enjoyed in January. It’s a celebration rooted in each Christianity and the Roman festival of Saturnalia, where social norms were briefly inverted.
For us, it was just one other excuse to eat fancy cakes, and we decided to rank them. Everyone pulled up the Notes app on their phone, but nobody agreed on a transparent template to write down down the votes.
- Some used a dynamic list, moving the cakes up and down with every latest slice.
- Others listed them without order, adding a number representing the rank before each cake. Sometimes after.
- The one constant? Spelling mistakes, which is just natural since French bakeries looove wordplay.
I received eight separate lists in a text message. All I needed to do was write a sublime prompt to show messy data into an aesthetic computation. It was time to shine. But…
Lazy.
That’s how I felt.
Super ultra mega lazy.
I didn’t need to disconnect from the group for 15+ minutes to write down a complicated prompt. So I wrote a brief one in five minutes and ran it. The primary results landed within the nonsense territory.
I added a number of instructions and pressed “Send.” Still no luck. I discussed the info with two friends and tried again. What got here out was synchronized frowns.
Over 20 more minutes went by before I began waving my phone“I got it,” I yelled. “I freaking got it!”
On the way in which home, one query kept playing inside my head. How are you going to write higher prompts once you’re feeling lazy?