Using prompts effectively is how to get the best results from AI.
When you’re working well with AI, you’ll teach it what you want to achieve and will keep feeding it examples and references to make it understand your needs.
If you just simply ask it to write an email about a topic, it may or may not be useful.
Think of AI as an assistant. If you ask an assistant to do a task, you need to be specific and give details and examples, or they won’t produce what you expected. AI is exactly the same.
To give a technical example, I wanted AI to give me action-oriented sentences and to change the noun phrases in some sentences into verbs. It didn’t understand what I wanted, so I had to teach it about Helen Sword’s “zombie” nouns and give it the article and reference. Then it helped me.
Another example is when you’re brainstorming.
You should give it a role to play. For example, you can say you’re a human resources officer (if you are) and ask it to give you a job description for a job you’re creating. The more specific you are, the better the response will be. If you’re brainstorming, you can ask AI for ideas to help you.
The following is the prompt I put into ChatGPT: “You’re a human resources officer. You’re designing a job description for an assistant to the director of a department at the United Nations. Please give a draft description, skills required and qualifications.”
Test it out! It gave a good draft description, including UN-specific details such as the official languages, and ended with “Let me know if you’d like adjustments to fit a specific department or role.” That’s the key. If you have more details, give them to ChatGPT. Keep the conversation going.
Let me know if you were successful !
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Author: Carol Waites
Presentation/editing by Christina O’Shaughnessy
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