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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowChatbots like ChatGPT and Bard offer non-AI experts a chance to experiment with artificial intelligence—for fun and for personal and professional tasks. Users write “prompts” that tell the chatbot what to do or create. But remember: The results produced by chatbots are not always accurate. AI experts warn against using anything produced by a chatbot without verifying the results.
IBJ asked Perplexity AI (which is based on OpenAI GPT-3 and GPT-4) to help us write effective chatbot prompts.
IBJ’s prompt: Give me tips for writing effective prompts for Perplexity.
◗ Be clear and specific: Use short sentences that are easy to understand and ask specific questions that explain the context of the question.
◗ Avoid long sentences with many subpoints: Keep your prompts concise and to the point.
◗ Provide background information: Assume little shared background knowledge and provide enough information for Perplexity to understand the context of the question.
◗ Use precise language: Choose fitting words and construct purposeful sentences to produce low perplexity content.
◗ Try different prompt styles: Experiment with different prompt styles and approaches to determine the most effective phrasing, tone, and complexity.
◗ Prime the AI: Provide some initial information or context to help guide Perplexity’s response.
IBJ asked Bard—a chatbot developed by Google—for sample prompts that could be used to try the technology.
IBJ’s prompt: Give me an example of prompts to help me experiment with Bard.
◗ Write me a poem about love.
◗ Generate a code in Python to calculate the Fibonacci sequence.
◗ Write a script for a short movie about a robot that falls in love with a human.
◗ Translate this paragraph from English to Spanish.
◗ Summarize the main points of this article about artificial intelligence.
◗ Write a blog post about the benefits of using Google Bard.
◗ Create a presentation about the history of artificial intelligence.
◗ Write a song about the future of technology.
◗ Come up with a new marketing campaign for a product.
◗ Design a new logo for a company.
◗ Write a letter to your future self.
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