ChatGPT got a performance boost this week when OpenAI added the impressive GPT-4-Turbo to its artificial intelligence chatbot.
This improved its reasoning and conversational skills, with OpenAI promising that it would be less verbose and more stylistic in its writing in the future.
Although it’s only available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers, I’ve put together a series of fun tips to try with ChatGPT that work with both the free and paid versions.
Creating indicators for ChatGPT
I’ve covered a range of topics with these prompts, as well as different prompting styles where you need to enter a multiprompt conversation.
1. Time travel adventures
For this we are asking the AI to put itself in the shoes of a time traveler. I recommend starting a new chat for this because once you set the initial prompt you will be able to enter a whole new world discussing this possible future with the AI.
Hint: “Imagine you are a time traveler from the year 2500. You are an expert on both your own time and the present. Describe what a typical day would be like for someone living in your actual era, including the technology they use, Their daily routines and how society has changed compared to today.”
When I tried, I found a breakdown of morning routines, travel and work, leisure, personal time and technology. You can then tell it to go into one of these points or even “still birds”. If you have ChatGPT Plus you can ask it to create a picture of any city for 2500.
2. Playing word games
Word games are the most popular on the internet, from crosswords to Wordal, we all love to challenge our linguistic prowess. For this next prompt we’re turning ChatGPT into a game engine.
Hint: “Let’s play a word association game. I’ll start: ocean. Now you answer with the first word that comes to mind, and we’ll go back and forth.”
Again, I’d start this as a new chat or keep playing Time Traveler – though it might be a fun experience. You can also substitute ‘sea’ for the word of your choice as the starting word.
If you don’t like word association, you can try this prompt: “Let’s play a word chain game. I’ll start by saying a word, and you have to respond with the word I said.” starts with the last letter of. Then, I’ll do the same with your word, and we’ll go back and forth. If one of us gets stuck, we can challenge the other one Come up with a word starting with a different letter: ‘chatbot'”
3. The perfect ice cream sundae
Then, cue to use ChatGPT to create the ultimate ice cream sundae including the perfect mix of layers and toppings.
Hint: “If you could make the ultimate ice cream sundae, what ingredients would you add? Describe how you would assemble it layer by layer.”
This is exactly what ChatGPT gave me. An elaborate layer-by-layer breakdown of the perfect ice cream sundae with clotted cream and salted caramel ice cream, chocolate fudge, shortbread, berries and toffee pieces.
Chet GPT told me: “The goal of creating an ice cream sundae is to combine rich flavors, diverse textures, and an appealing presentation.”
4. Crafting the perfect joke
If you’ve ever given a speech, given a toast, or need a way to break the ice in an unusual environment, a joke can help. OpenAI’s Chat GPT is not a great humorist but it can come up with phrases or funny twists.
Hint: “Pretend you’re a stand-up comedian. You tell funny, clean jokes for a wide audience. You’re more of a one-liner than a storyteller. I’d like to give you a short, clean introduction to the challenges of being an AI chatbot. Tell me a joke that I can share with my friends.”
You can replace the chatbot with your profession, a hobby you enjoy or some random fact about your hometown and it can adapt to the joke. Like Time Traveler, it’s best used with fresh chat and then you can follow up with a comic character.
It gave me this side-splitter: “Why did an AI chatbot apply for a loan? It needs cash to improve its memory!”
5. To read something
This prompt again works best as a fresh chat unless you want the AI to add a sense of humor to every reply. Here we have her acting as a bookseller who recommends all three novels to read in different genres.
Hint: “You’re a bookseller with a kind nature and a broad understanding of different genres. I’m in the mood for a new book. A dystopian future where emotions are outlawed.”
You can adapt the second half of the prompt to any theme or idea, you can change the number of books or even specify a specific genre. One approach is to start with the first sentence of the prompt up to the genre, then ask for your specific request once it moves into the character in the follow-up prompt.
It suggests Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Delirium by Lauren Oliver and The Giver by Lois Lowry.
6. An AI bard
This next prompt will give you word games, creative brainstorming, and a fun poem to share with friends or a loved one. It’s a multi-layered idea that starts with: “Let’s write a short poem together” and goes from there.
The complete instructions to get started are: “Let’s write a short poem together. I’ll give you a theme, and we’ll alternate lines. The theme is: the beauty of nature. I’ll begin: ‘Whispers of wind through green leaves,'”
Then “soft rivers reflect the moon’s calm gaze.” To which I replied “There’s a gloom set among the bees,” and ChatGPT ended with “As the twilight paints the sky with rose hues.”
Of course you can use any theme and any starting line. You can also adapt it to say “you begin”.
7. Coming from space
Finally we are asking the AI to play the role of a tourist with a difference. Start a new chat and tell him to put himself in the shoes of an alien visiting Earth from a galaxy far, far away.
Hint: “Imagine that you are an alien from a distant galaxy visiting Earth for the first time. Describe your opinion of human culture and behavior based on your initial observations.”
The AI is trained on human information, but its dataset also contains science fiction and an “other” perspective, which logically processes the information in its training data.
This prompt is also one that you can make multidimensional, asking the AI (playing aliens) to describe and compare your planet. It’s a fun storytelling tool and a truly interactive story setup.
He wrote: “As an alien observer from a distant galaxy, I find human culture and behavior both fascinating and disturbing. The diversity among humans is vast, with countless languages, customs, and traditions. which vary markedly in different regions of the earth. I tend to have deep cooperation and intense conflict within the same species.”
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