Master the Perfect ChatGPT Prompt Formula (in just 8 minutes)!

I don't usually overhype myself but in

this video we're going over the only

formula you will ever need to master

prompting on chat BT and Google bard so

let's get started hey friends welcome

back to channel if you're new here my

name is Jeff I work full-time in Tech

and if you're anything like me a couple

months ago you know prompting is an

important skill to learn but you're not

exactly sure why some prompts generate

outputs that are super generic While

others give you precisely what you're

looking for since then I've spent

hundreds of hours taking prompt

engineering courses and applying what

I've learned in my daily life and so in

this video I'm sharing these six

building blocks that make up a good

prompt so that you can use this formula

to consistently generate high quality

outputs first it's critical to not only

know what the six components are task

context exemplars Persona format and

tone but also know that there's an order

of importance to these six components to

show you what I mean let's use this

simple example I'm a 70kg male give me a

3-month training program the first part

is context followed by the task the

reason why the task is higher up in the

formula hierarchy is if we just input

the task without the context there's

still some sort of meaningful output but

if we just give Chachi PT the context

nothing really happens put another way

it's mandatory to have a task in your

prompt it's important to include

relevant context and exemplars and it's

nice to have Persona format and tone

when you think of writing your prompt go

down this mental checklist so this

formula will act as a constant reminder

for you to include just enough relevant

information when writing prompts and as

you'll see in this next part you do not

need all six components in every prompt

to have a good output now let's break

down each building block with specific

examples starting with the task the rule

of thumb is to always start the task

sentence with an action verb generate

give write analyze Etc and clearly

articulate what your end goal is it

could be one simple task like generating

a three-month training program or a

complex three-step task like analyzing

hundreds of user feedback sharing the

top three takeaways and categorizing the

feedback based on the team responsible

for following off the second component

context is the trickiest to get right

because technically there's an infinite

amount of information you can give so I

found asking myself these three

questions to be super helpful in coming

up with just enough information to get a

good result from Chachi BT first what's

the user's background second what do

success look like and third what

environment are they in back to the

workout example we now have I'm a 70kg

male looking to put on 5 kg of muscle

mass over the next 3 months I only have

time to go to the gym twice a week and

for 1 hour each session give me a 3month

training program to follow could I have

added more background information of

course only prioritize the muscle groups

that make me look good at

Instagram but the key to staying

productive with chat gbtm Bard is giving

just enough information to constrain the

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in the description to learn more moving

over to the exemplars component it's

just a fancy way of saying examples

basically all the research on large

language models llms have shown that

including examples within the prompt

drastically improves the quality of the

output starting with a simple example

this is a py written bullet point from a

resume we can now ask chat GPT to

rewrite this bullet point using this

structure I accomplish X by to measure y

that resulted in Z which is actually

best practice by the way so actually do

this in your resume for example I

lowered Hospital mortality rate by 10%

by educating nurses in new protocols

which translates to 200 lives saved per

year here's a slightly more complicated

example for interview prep based on my

own resume write me an answer to the

interview question what's your biggest

weakness use the star answer framework

situation task action and results here

instead of using a full-blown interview

answer as an example which would be

Overkill the star framework acts as an

example structure for chat gbt to follow

last example let's say you need to write

a job description you give some context

around the opening and ask chat apt to

reference an existing job description if

I use this one I found on LinkedIn the

output will follow the same formatting

and use the same professional hre

language saving me a bunch of time main

takeaway here exemplars are not

necessary for every prompt but including

a relevant example or framework will

greatly improve the quality of your

output moving along the Persona

component is basically who you want cha

PT and bar to be and the pro tip here is

to think of someone you wish you had

instant access to with the task you're

facing if you injured yourself working

out that person might be a physical

therapist with experience helping

athletes recover if you're a jobseeker

that person might be a recruiter or Hing

manager if you're working on a creative

brief that person might be a senior

product marketing manager who's great at

storytelling Pro tip you can also name

specific individuals but I found the

results to be good only when they're

famous enough like Warren Buffett Steve

Jobs Jeff

Sue by the way I just have to share this

we have a team offsite with a

superheroes theme so I asked Chach PT to

draft an email from Batman and it even

included things like please let Alfred

know and signed off as The Dark Knight

um so fictional characters work as well

and I'm actually going to use this the

fifth component format the pro tip here

is to literally close your eyes and

visualize how exactly you want the end

result to look like a million likes on

my thir bomb Instagram photo damn it

didn't work back to the user feedback

example I don't want to read each

sentence so I asked chachy BT to take

all the feedback and output a table with

three headers the original feedback the

team responsible for following up and

priority and now I can copy this

directly and paste it into a Google

sheet store by priority and filter by

team other common formats include emails

bullet points and code blocks but the

one I found to be the most useful as a

full-time working professional is

paragraphs and and markdown for example

I just received a lengthy industry

report from my director first give me

the three key takeaways then summarize

based on topic use H2 as section headers

here is the report Pro tip whenever I

use chash gbt to proofread any document

I specify that all changes need to be

bolded so I can easily see exactly what

has been changed let's quickly go

through the last component tone before

we put all this together in one example

the good news is tone is easy to

understand use a casual or formal tone

of voice give me a witty output uh show

enthusiasm sound pessimistic the bad

news is we're usually not very good at

recalling the thousands of potential

adjectives and adverbs at a moment's

notice so here's a pro tip tell tra BT

the feeling you're going for for example

I'm writing an email to a team I haven't

worked with before and I want to be

taken seriously without coming off as

too stuck up and cringey can you please

give me a list of five tone keywords I

can include in a prompt for chbt and

look now in the actual prompt I can say

use clear and concise language and write

in a friendly yet confident tone putting

all this together let's look at this

comprehensive prompt you are a senior

product marketing manager at Apple

Persona and you have just unveiled the

latest Apple product in collaboration

with Tesla the Apple car and received

12,000 pre-orders which is 200% higher

than Target context write an email to

your boss Tim cookie sharing this

positive news task and format the email

should include a tldr tool long didn't

read section project background why this

product came into existence business

results section quantifiable business

metrics and end with a section thanking

the product and Engineering teams

example structure use clear and concise

language and write in a confident yet

friendly tone tone note that if I had an

existing email to reference I could

delete the instructions around the

structure and simply tell chbt the email

should follow the exact same format as

the one I will share below and paste the

email from before by the way you can

compare the output from this prompt to

that of a simpler prompt I just launched

a new product the Apple car I received

12,000 pre-orders please run an email to

my boss with this update there's a

pretty big difference in terms of how

generic and usable the end result is now

that you know the basics of prompting my

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meantime have a great one