Almost an Agent: What GPTs can do

First, Claude 3 Opus was excellent at handling large amount of text. I gave it a 300 pages PDF of my sales pages and sales emails for the past few years, with just a one page explaining intro, and asked him to basically make my copywriting for a new product. It was at least 90% as good as what I would have done.

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Such a thing is compelling not because it offers  answers  in the form of text, but because it makes it possible to play text—all the text, almost—like an instrument.

That outcome could be revelatory! But a huge obstacle stands in the way of achieving it: people, who don’t know what the hell to make of LLMs, ChatGPT, and all the other gene

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#4—Prompting is a finicky art, but a worthy investment While it would be great if the three techniques I’ve shared so far immediately transform your prompts, there's a decent chance they will fall flat for your use case. My guess is that they will even become irrelevant as models become smarter and more cost-effective over time. My point in sharing

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In my experience, the most useful approaches to AI are:

1. Ask clearly bounded questions, where you can easily inspect the results.


2. Don’t let AI make decisions for you. Instead, challenge it to broaden your options.


3. Take advantage of the fact that it doesn’t have feelings, and use its honesty to get useful feedback.