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ChatGPT's Prompting Revolution: Embracing Simplicity for High-Quality Content

It turns out that simple prompts often work best

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Dave Friedman
Apr 27, 2023
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It used to be the case that getting good content from ChatGPT required creating a sophisticated and highly constrained prompt. While that strategy still does work, you can occasionally get away with simple prompts which elicit comprehensive and sophisticated responses1.

By “highly constrained” I mean a prompt which provides ChatGPT with a lot of backgroun…

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