Revolutionize AI Prompting: Expert Techniques to Unlock ChatGPT's True Potential
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I am GPTed - what you need to know about Chat GPT, Bard, Llama, and Artificial Intelligence
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Intro music fades in then under. Hey, it's Mal, the Misfit Master of AI, and this is I Am GPT'd, the show where we skip the buzzwords, bully the hype a little, and actually get useful with AI. Let's fix one simple thing today that will instantly make ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, all of them way less useless. One. One specific prompting technique. The technique is this. Show, then ask. Give a clear example of what you want before you ask for it. Bad version first. Write a friendly email to a client about a project delay. That gets you a beige corporate oatmeal email. Now the show, then ask version. Here's the style I like. Hey, Sam, quick heads up. We're running a bit behind on the new feature. No one's slacking.
We just hit a couple of surprise speed bumps. I'll send you a concrete update by Thursday, and if that timeline doesn't work, we'll adjust together. Grinding that style? Casual, honest, no fluff. Write an email to a client explaining our website redesign is delayed by one week. Same request, but now the AI has a pattern to copy. Result, less robot lawyer, more actual human. Use this with anything. Emails, lesson plans, ad copy, meeting agendas, even birthday speeches. Show one, then ask. Possibly two. A practical use case you might not have considered. Here's a sneaky everyday use. Turn AI into your personal meeting debauchefire. After a meeting, drop in your notes or the transcript and say, summarize this, like I'm a busy person who doesn't care about politics.
Give me two. One, what was actually decided. Two, who owns what. Three, deadlines. Four, risks no one wanted to say out loud. Now you've got a clean action list instead of a 14-page circleback festival. You can do this for school group projects, PTA meetings, or that weekly status call where nothing happens except people reading slides at you. Action three, one common beginner mistake. Common mistake, treating AI like Google. Typing, marketing ideas. My first prompt ever was literally, explain AI. The model gave me a polite Wikipedia impersonation and I thought, wow, this thing is overrated. It wasn't. My prompt was, fix it by adding three things. Context, who you are and what you're doing. Goal, what good looks like.
Constraints, length, tone. If the model is causing a problem, all pose. Suggest five concrete changes to how we run meetings. Keep each idea under three sentences and focus on things I can implement this week. Way better than meeting tips? Here's a quick exercise to build your AI skills. Takes 10 minutes. 1. Pick one boring task you do weekly. Emails, reports, lesson plans, LinkedIn posts, whatever. 2. Write your normal prompt for it. 3. Ask the AI. Rewrite my prompt to make it clearer and more specific. Then explain what you changed and why.
What is the 'show, then ask' prompting technique and why does it work?
4. Use the improved prompt. 5. Compare the old result versus the new one. You're literally using the AI as a prompt coach. Do this a few times and your future prompts get sharper automatically. this is close, improve it by making it more specific with concrete examples, removing filler language, removing it by 30%, highlighting the three most important points at the top in bullets. Treat the first answer as draft zero, not gospel. Two or three rounds of what's missing, now fix that usually takes you from meh to I'd actually send this. Alright, that's it for today's dose of practical AI with just enough sarcasm to keep us honest.
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