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Advanced ChatGPT prompting technique: Flip the Script

06/22/2023· 2 min read

I’m showing you how I asked ChatGPT for 20 days of high quality tweets & LinkedIn post with one simple prompt

You can use this prompt pattern for much more than writing tweets. It opens up way for ChatGPT to gather necessary information to perform increasingly complex task without you having to tell it everything in 1 prompt

Unfortunately, most people get stuck on beginner level while using ChatGPT

Here is the primary reason why

Most people got the following wrong while using ChatGPT

I’ll show you how to fix all of this with one simple prompt pattern. It’s called Flipped Interaction. Here's how, step by step:

Step 1: Flip the interaction

I would like you to ask me questions to achieve X. 

This single prompt flip the interaction on its head. ChatGPT has much more knowledge about many different topic & task so if you let it ask you question, it can collect the necessary information that you may not even know to begin with

For example

- I would like you to ask me questions so you can write me 10 tweet
- From now on, I would like you to ask me questions to create an web application.

Step 2: Encourage ChatGPT to keep asking questions

You should ask questions until <a condition is met> 

This let ChatGPT know that it can ask as many questions as it needs to collect enough information to perform the task. For example

You should ask me as many questions as necessary to do the job. When you have enough information to generate each tweet, you should generate the tweet and then continue with the question.

Step 3: Specify how it should ask questions

You’re one step away from unlocking ChatGPT full potential

You can add this to your prompt to specify how ChatGPT should present the question

You should ask questions one|two|three at a time

This step is optional but can improve usability by limiting (or expanding) the number of questions that ChatGPT generates per cycle 

Putting it all together, here is screenshot of my chat to generate contents for AI Growth Pad twitter account

Summary

These 3 steps shows how to flip the normal “I ask, you answer” paradigm on its head. It works wonderfully because ChatGPT modal often has knowledge it can use to more accurately obtain information from the user. It may uncover blindspot that user may not initially be aware of

Trung Vu

About Trung Vu

Trung Vu, a former software engineer, founded Hoss in 2019 to enhance developer experiences, swiftly attracting Silicon Valley backers and a $1.6 million seed round. In 2021, his venture was acquired by Niantic Labs, of Pokemon Go fame, to bolster their Lightship platform.

Post-acquisition, Trung leads engineering teams at Niantic and invests in promising AI startups. An AI enthusiast even before ChatGPT's rise, he equates its potential to electricity. Through AI Growth Pad, his education platform, Trung teaches entrepreneurs to leverage AI for growth, embodying his commitment to ethical, transformative technology.

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