Mastering Chat GPT-4: A Comprehensive Guide
Are you looking to improve your chat experience with Chat GPT-4? Look no further! In this guide, we will cover all the latest updates and features of Chat GPT-4, including custom instructions, Vision, plugins, and the brand new ability to call custom GPTs within any chat. We will also provide tips and best practices for prompt engineering, as well as examples of how to build your own custom GPTs.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Top Prompting Tips
3. Custom Instructions
4. Vision
5. Plugins
6. Custom GPTs
7. Examples of Custom GPTs
8. Highlights
9. FAQ
Top Prompting Tips
For the majority of users, you don't need any elaborate prompt engineering, but better inputs will give you better outputs. Here are some top prompting tips to greatly improve your outputs:
Be Specific
When creating a prompt, be specific. Break it down further into stylization, formatting, and restrictions. For example, instead of sending a prompt like "What were the biggest AI breakthroughs of 2023?", give it five bullet points, one sentence long each.
Stylize
Use "Stylize" to let Chat GPT-4 know to speak in simple terms. If you're a plus user, you can extend this with some really cool things like mind maps and flowcharts.
Formatting
Use formatting to add headings and subheadings, create tables, or write code.
Restrictions
Use restrictions to explain it in one sentence or two to three sentences or a paragraph depending on the complexity of the prompt.
Role Prompting
Give Chat GPT-4 a role or identity to give context of how you'd like it to answer. For example, "You are a theoretical physicist speaking to senior physicists."
Few Shot Prompting
Give samples of what you want within your prompt. This is called few shot prompting and can greatly enhance the output.
Chain of Thought Prompting
Use "think step by step" for anything that involves the need for Chat GPT-4 to use reasoning rather than just memorize knowledge.
Follow-Up Prompts
Use "explain it like I'm five" or "explain it like I'm a high school student" to help understand and retain information. Use "Steelman the opposing side" to understand the other side of a topic.
Custom Instructions
Custom instructions are huge and can improve Chat GPT-4's outputs and make them more relevant. Here are some easy wins:
Remove Apologies
Tell Chat GPT-4 not to apologize or remind you it's a large language model.
Tone and Vocabulary
Set the tone, style, and vocabulary you expect. Chat GPT-4 has the tendency to be overly verbose, so custom instructions can help cut out a lot of that.
Context
Add what information you want Chat GPT-4 to know about you.
Vision
Vision is a powerful feature that can recognize landmarks, complex food dishes, medical imaging, jokes and memes, and more. It can also help with things like organizing a room or finding a better way to organize your background for videos.
Plugins
Plugins were overhyped and have become irrelevant with the introduction of custom GPTs. All of that can be done with GPTs now.
Custom GPTs
Custom GPTs are the biggest update to Chat GPT-4. You can create your own GPTs and call them within any chat. This is one step closer to agents. There are a ton of GPTs already built, but you can also build your own from scratch.
Examples of Custom GPTs
You can stack functionalities across a bunch of different tools now, which starts to become really powerful. Here are some examples:
- Petro chirano created an app using grimoire to create all the code for a website about a coffee shop in New York City specialized in Italian coffee, then sent all that code to designer GPT which launched the site.
- Zatty uses academic paper finder to find papers about smart contract auditing, then uses ask your PDF research assistant to download and explain a couple of them, then uses literature review writer to write a literature review using the contents of both papers.
- Ryan Carson created a Chief product officer, Chief Financial Officer, and investor to be able to call and interact with at any time, building GPTs with different knowledge sets about your business, then almost treating them like different employees like a marketing specialist, sales associate, customer service representative, designer, and more.
Highlights
- Top prompting tips to greatly improve your outputs
- Custom instructions to improve Chat GPT-4's outputs and make them more relevant
- Vision to recognize landmarks, complex food dishes, medical imaging, jokes and memes, and more
- Custom GPTs to create your own GPTs and call them within any chat
- Examples of custom GPTs to stack functionalities across a bunch of different tools
FAQ
Q: What is Chat GPT-4?
A: Chat GPT-4 is a language model trained by OpenAI that can generate human-like responses to text prompts.
Q: What are custom instructions?
A: Custom instructions are a way to modify the way Chat GPT-4 responds. You can set the tone, style, and vocabulary you expect, as well as add context about yourself.
Q: What is Vision?
A: Vision is a powerful feature of Chat GPT-4 that can recognize landmarks, complex food dishes, medical imaging, jokes and memes, and more.
Q: What are custom GPTs?
A: Custom GPTs are a way to create your own GPTs and call them within any chat. You can stack functionalities across a bunch of different tools.
Q: What are some examples of custom GPTs?
A: Examples of custom GPTs include an app that creates all the code for a website, a research assistant that finds and explains academic papers, and a set of GPTs that act like different employees for a business.
