Many people think they put in a quick prompt or no prompt at all and expect it to read their minds and produce a perfect version of their ideal outcome!
Unfortunately, it’s not yet a mind reader. Perhaps one day …
So, the clearer we are with our prompts, the more likely we are to achieve our aims.
This YouTube video “10 AI prompts that will make you a better writer” gives a good overview of the key points needed to write good prompts.
Brie Kirbyson recommends the following three action points:
- Give it a role: For example, “You are an experienced writing coach”.
- Tell it what to do: “Fix grammar and spelling”, or “Rewrite this in 10 different voices or writing styles”.
- Paste in your text.
Getting good results is dependent on your back and forth interaction with the tool. Just use plain English to give it instructions or prompts.
Another use my students are excited about is turning a text into a PowerPoint presentation in a few seconds.
Here’s a prompt I used: “I am giving a presentation to the general public about this topic. Could you please create a PowerPoint presentation and include some illustrations. Here is the text to use”. (paste in text)
With the free version of Copilot it gave me the text for the slides but didn’t produce the PowerPoint. ChatGPT 4 version, though, gave me the PowerPoint presentation too.
Here is a blogpost on how to use ChatGPT to create a PowerPoint presentation.
Test it out and let me know how it went! Good luck!
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Author: Carol Waites
Presentation/editing by Christina O’Shaughnessy
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Carol Waites (PhD)
Email: carolswritingtips@gmail.com
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