“Explain endlessly: I am constantly explaining to ChatGPT what I need. It needs some freedom, but only a little if you want to use it for work. If English is not your first language, you must ensure it understands what you mean; use “by saying ___, I mean ___”
– Konstantinos Antonopoulos
“Garbage in – garbage out” applies equally well with large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. This piece from Aljazeera Media Institute offers word-by-word examples for effective instructions for newsroom writing tasks.
Note the examples are for ChatGPT 3.5. However, they should generally work with other versions and alternate LLMs.