How to get ChatGPT to do your bidding

Effective prompts generate good output, but effective prompts require experimentation and iteration

Tyler Cowen has a column out today, in which he gives advice about how to best use ChatGPT:

Ask ChatGPT “What is Marxism?” for example, and you will get a passable answer, probably no better than what you would get by using Wikipedia or Google. Instead, make the question more specific: “Which were the important developments in French Marxism in the secon…