Be Specific

• Give ChatGPT specific prompts with clear instructions.
• Avoid open-ended questions and instead provide 5 bullet points with one-sentence summaries.

Stylize Your Prompts

• Adjust the language and formatting to suit your audience, e.g., simple terms for a lay person or technical language for an engineer.
• Use formatting like bullet points, headings, and subheadings to structure your output.

Add Restrictions

• Limit the length of the response, e.g., "Explain this in one sentence" or "Explain this in 2-3 sentences".

Use Role Prompting

• Assign ChatGPT a specific role or identity to provide context for the response, e.g., "You are a theoretical physicist speaking to senior physicists" or "You are an elementary school teacher speaking to your students".

Provide Examples

• Use "few-shot prompting" by including samples of the desired output to help ChatGPT match your style.

Encourage Reasoning

• Prompt ChatGPT to "think step-by-step" for complex tasks that require reasoning.

Follow Up for Clarity

• Use prompts like "Explain it like I'm 5" or "Use an analogy" to simplify explanations.
• Ask ChatGPT to "Steelman the opposing side" to understand different perspectives.

Custom instructions are a powerful feature that can greatly improve ChatGPT's outputs and make them more relevant to your specific needs. There are a couple of easy wins that everyone should be using:

1. Provide Context About Yourself: The top box in the custom instructions allows you to add context about yourself that ChatGPT can use to tailor its responses. Keep this information concise, but include relevant details that can help ChatGPT understand your background and preferences.

2. Customize the Response Style: The bottom box in the custom instructions lets you set the tone, style, and vocabulary you expect from ChatGPT. Use this to eliminate unwanted behaviors, such as excessive apologies or references to its knowledge cutoff date.

For example, you can instruct ChatGPT not to mention its limitations, remind you to consult professionals for health-related advice, or avoid verbosity. Experiment with different versions of your custom instructions and see what works best for your needs.

Remember, you can easily turn custom instructions on and off, or create multiple versions to use in different situations. Anytime you encounter a quirk or type of response you don't like, see if you can fix it in the custom instructions. This is a simple way to personalize your ChatGPT experience and get better, more relevant outputs.

One of the most impressive features introduced to ChatGPT is the integration of Vision, Dolly, and CodeInterpreter. These powerful capabilities can revolutionize your workflow in various ways:

Vision

The Vision feature allows you to upload images and have ChatGPT analyze them. This can be incredibly useful for practical applications, such as:

• Organizing your home or office by analyzing a room and providing suggestions for better layout.
• Troubleshooting issues around the house by uploading a photo of a broken item and having ChatGPT provide guidance.
• Enhancing your video background by asking ChatGPT how to make it look more visually appealing.

The Vision feature taps into ChatGPT's impressive ability to recognize landmarks, complex food dishes, emotions, and even understand complex diagrams and jokes. Exploring the use cases in the OpenAI paper can inspire new ways to leverage this capability.

Dolly

Dolly is the image generation feature integrated into ChatGPT. With its advanced prompt understanding, you can create highly detailed and customized images. Some examples include:

• Generating black-and-white coloring book pages for children with specific themes or characters.
• Producing unique artwork based on detailed prompts, taking advantage of Dolly's ability to understand and execute on complex instructions.
• Iterating on image designs by providing feedback and having Dolly regenerate the image with improvements.

The conversational nature of interacting with Dolly makes the image creation process more intuitive and collaborative.

CodeInterpreter

The CodeInterpreter feature allows you to upload various file types, such as CSV, JSON, or code, and have ChatGPT analyze the data. This can be incredibly useful for:

• Visualizing data trends and patterns through a variety of chart types, including bar plots, box plots, line plots, heat maps, histograms, and pie charts.
• Identifying insights and drawing conclusions from the data, saving time and effort compared to manual analysis.
• Automating data-driven tasks by leveraging ChatGPT's ability to understand and work with different file formats.

The CodeInterpreter seamlessly integrates data analysis capabilities into your workflow, empowering you to extract valuable insights more efficiently.

By incorporating Vision, Dolly, and CodeInterpreter into your ChatGPT usage, you can streamline various tasks, enhance your productivity, and unlock new possibilities in your work and personal life.

Custom GPTs can greatly improve your ChatGPT experience by tailoring its responses to your specific needs. Here's how to leverage this powerful feature:

Custom Instructions

• Use the "Custom Instructions" feature to provide context about yourself and set the tone/style you prefer.
• This helps ChatGPT understand your unique needs and respond more relevantly.
• Avoid overly long custom instructions - keep them concise and focused.

Building Your Own Custom GPT

• Creating a custom GPT is easy and opens up a world of possibilities.
• Start by clicking "Create" to build a GPT tailored to your use case, e.g. a children's coloring book generator.
• Customize the GPT's capabilities, interaction style, and knowledge base to suit your needs.
• Once created, you can call your custom GPT within any chat by using the "@" symbol.

Stacking Functionality

• Combine multiple custom GPTs to create powerful workflows.
• For example, use a research assistant GPT to find relevant papers, then a literature review writer GPT to summarize them.
• Connect GPTs to other apps via APIs for even more functionality.

Considerations

• Be mindful of what information you provide to custom GPTs, as it can be used to generate responses.
• Regularly review and update your custom GPTs to ensure they remain relevant and secure.

Leveraging custom GPTs can unlock a new level of productivity and creativity with ChatGPT. Experiment, build, and stack functionality to suit your unique needs.

I'll start off really simple so I have a three-year-old and he loves to color. For a while, I've been using Midjourney to create coloring book pages for him. I have a few prompts saved and just switch a couple words around and let it generate. That does work well, but with a custom GPT, I can make it even easier.

I'll do this conversationally at first, before showing how to customize these and build them from scratch. I just click "Create" and an image generator that only generates coloring book pages for children. It has the preview on the other side as we build. Just from that, it would actually probably be usable already.

Under "Configure", it's already filled in these fields. It also suggested a title, but I want something a little more imaginative. That's good. Now it's generating a profile picture, and that's perfect.

And now it's asking about the interaction style. I went through a couple back and forth here. It was all easy stuff, so I wanted to speed it up. Basically, I was just telling it to keep everything simple and kid-friendly, then asked it to act like a creative friend.

Now we can test it out. I want to make sure it works with as little input as possible, so I'll just write "a dinosaur", and that's a really solid dinosaur. It has a fun description, and the emojis are a nice touch. But I want it to be simpler since my son is only three.

Alright, now it's updated, so I'll give it another try. That's great. I want to try one that's a little more complex and see how it does. "A bear driving a race car through a forest." Alright, that one ended up with some color. I thought it would have been implied by calling it a coloring book page, but I'll ask it to make sure it only generates in black and white.

Alright, now I'll try again. That is amazing. This is already done. I could just click save right now, but let's look at the "Configure" tab to see what it did here.

So it has the title and a brief description. That's what will show up to other users if you make it public. It has the instruction for what it does. These are short because this one was pretty simple, but it guides how the images will be created with the constraints and how it will interact in a fun way.

And for the conversation starters, I want to make some changes here so they're more interactive, in case he doesn't have an idea. I'll list some themes to choose from, some characters, settings, then "surprise me." That should be fun.

We didn't need to upload anything to the knowledge base, but this is where you can upload additional files for your GPT to use as context - things like a tutorial, transcripts, or writing samples.

The only capability we really needed is Dolly for image generation, but it left web browsing on. Generally, it makes sense to leave on any that you think it may use. Doesn't really hurt.

Then "Action" is where you could interact with other applications through APIs. That's where these can get really powerful, but also more complex. You can go find existing APIs you can use, or use one from your business if you have one, then convert it into an open API schema to paste in here. That's beyond the scope of this video, though. There's also people that cover it better than I would.

I don't have a development background. Liam Atley is one person I saw cover that pretty in-depth if you're looking to build GPTs to make money with. Once they launch the monetization features, that will be the only way to stand out, otherwise someone can just look at the functions of your GPT and create it themselves.

I'm going to save this one and just keep it for me. You could also make it accessible to anyone with the link, or fully public. A very important note is if you are building one of these to make public, all the information made available to the GPT - that includes the prompt, the instructions, and attached files - it can be used by the model to construct a response to the user. So just don't include any information you don't want the user to know.

There was also a hack going around of a prompt you could use to extract the full custom instructions. I just don't put any confidential info into these. But here's the one I just made. Want to test out these conversation starters?

Alright, that gave a great list of characters to choose from. I can almost guarantee he would choose robot. There it is, that's perfect. And I want to test out that "surprise me" too. Alright, that's great. All I have to do is open this up and just let him click a button, and it'll generate another thing.

Kind of cool here is on my phone, I'll be able to use voice and have him just say what he wants into it, then it will make it for him and say those fun descriptions out loud. I think this will be pretty fun.

This was all created in just a few minutes from a short conversation that anyone could have had. I know a lot of us have gotten used to how far AI has come, but when I stop and think about this, it's really insane how easy that was.

If you regularly use ChatGPT for any specific tasks like coding, writing, brainstorming, or topics like fitness and nutrition, you can create a custom GPT tailored to your needs. This can be much more efficient than using complex prompts each time.

To create a custom GPT:

1. Click "Explore GPTs" on the sidebar to browse existing GPTs or create your own.
2. Configure the GPT with your specific instructions, knowledge base, and capabilities. This could include:
   • Uploading examples of your writing style or code for the GPT to emulate
   • Providing background information or resources related to your domain
   • Enabling capabilities like image generation, data analysis, or integration with other tools
3. Save the custom GPT and use the "@" symbol to call it within any chat, rather than having to retype detailed prompts.

This allows you to leverage the GPT's specialized knowledge and capabilities tailored to your needs. You can also stack multiple custom GPTs to create powerful workflows, such as:

• Using an "Academic Paper Finder" GPT to discover relevant research, then a "Literature Review Writer" GPT to summarize the findings.
• Connecting a custom "Notion GPT" to your Notion workspace to seamlessly save information from your chats.
• Building a suite of "employee" GPTs (e.g., Chief Product Officer, Designer, Customer Service) to assist with different aspects of your business.

The key is to identify repetitive tasks or areas where you could benefit from more specialized AI assistance, and then create custom GPTs to streamline your workflow. Start simple and experiment to find the most impactful applications for your needs.

The key takeaways from this comprehensive guide on mastering ChatGPT in 2024 are:

• Utilize specific prompting techniques like stylization, formatting, and restrictions to get better outputs from ChatGPT.
• Leverage role-playing and few-shot prompting to tailor responses to your needs.
• Use "think step-by-step" prompting for complex tasks that require reasoning.
• Leverage follow-up prompts like "explain it like I'm 5" to improve understanding.
• Customize your ChatGPT experience with personalized instructions for context and tone.
• Explore the powerful capabilities of ChatGPT's Vision, Web Browsing, and Code Interpreter features.
• Discover and utilize pre-built custom ChatGPTs for specialized tasks.
• Build your own custom ChatGPT to streamline workflows and automate repetitive processes.
• Combine the functionality of multiple ChatGPTs to create powerful AI-powered applications.

By mastering these techniques and features, you'll be able to unlock the full potential of ChatGPT and harness its capabilities to boost your productivity, creativity, and problem-solving abilities in 2024 and beyond.