How to Talk to AI - 5 Essential Tips for Better Chats

Evergreen Tips & Tricks

..to 10x Your Conversations With Ai

How to refine the problem? (eg. when working with #ai) 1. give context (optional), 2. ask for assumptions you may not know about the problem, 3. ask to use 5whys to explain those assumptions, 4. ask for alternatives to the problem (eg. what do you think are alternatives I could have missed when defining responsibilities of SEM role)

Use the following phrases to increase the quality of the #ai output:

Be 100 times more specific ^[1]
be 20% more creative
explain this to me, as I would be 10 years old
self-critique: can you go and check your response? / how can it be improved? ...great, now go and implement it ^[2]
few shots prompting: Provide several examples of desired behavior or output (e.g., “paste them into the model ... write me another email ... style it like my previous emails”)
task decomposition: break this problem into small steps / sub-problems
don't need to be sequential → if you want to group similar ideas from the text together, inspiration
Content Creation: Write like a human. No fluff. No cringe. Tiny typos, and grammar issues. Make it hit.
Be concise when writing (use minimal words to deliver the message) → avoiding #ai fluff
Building projects - designing: use ASCII wireframes for layout to confirm before creating design → create ascii representation of the layout you are about to use ^[3]

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