Creating the best “prompts” for OpenAI

Also "Sleeping habits" and "Opinions about houses"

I think people  who people  subscribe to my newsletter  are mainly looking for teaching materials. But I want to recommend the best tool I’ve found to assist me in teaching and creating teaching materials. This is such a recent development that I’m only in the exploratory phase. However, I’m constantly discovering things that amaze me.

If you don’t know, OpenAI is a private technology firm focused on artificial intelligence. Elon Musk was one of the founders, and Microsoft is a big investor. One thing I should stress about OpenAI is that it’s very cheap. I think I’m paying around  $3 US per month and I use it everyday.

Today, in the paid subscriber section, I want to discuss using “prompts”. Prompts are instructions that you give to the AI program to get a desired result. But  I’ve gradually realized that writing good prompts requires critical thinking and open mindedness. And once you find a good prompt, you’d better record it,  as it is like a formula, that you may need again and again. Or you may be able to sell it! There are websites starting up that are selling AI prompts!

But, first, here are two free exercises (for a couple weeks):

1 Sleeping habits

2 Expressing opinions about houses