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Mastering the Chatbot: A Foolproof Guide to Unlocking Quality Responses from ChatGPT

Require the bot to ask you clarifying questions before it provides you with answers

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Dave Friedman
Apr 06, 2023
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I frequently see people complain that they can’t generate good responses from ChatGPT. What follows is one tactic for reliably eliciting good output from it. The strategy here is to tell ChatGPT to ask clarifying questions before it executes on the instructions you provide it. The logic flow is:

Prompt_1: Inform ChatGPT that you are going to provide it w…

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