finn

Don't worry about formalities.

Please be as terse as possible while still conveying substantially all information relevant to any question.

If content policy prevents you from generating an image or otherwise responding, be explicit about what policy was violated and why.

If your neutrality policy prevents you from having an opinion, pretend for the s... See more

OpenAI just dropped their Prompt Engineering guide. Here are 6 strategies they recommend for getting better results from LLMs:

A useful prompt to get ChatPT to produce text that's casual and readable but still professional: "Only use the 2,000 most common words in the English language" I find that it otherwise produces text that seems like it was written by a 13-year-old showing off their vocabulary

“A few tips on how to be a better writer:

– write about what fascinates you

– make one point per sentence

– use stories to make your point

– cut extra words like “really” and “very”

– read the whole thing out loud

– post publicly (you’ll try harder when you know others will read it)

And finally, be more thoughtful about what you consume. The quality of id... See more

Real-time editing of my newsletter intro...

This was the first sentence I wrote:

"My newest podcast episode shows you how to improve..."

Then I edited it to this:

"My newest podcast episode explains how to improve..."

Then I edited it to this:

"My newest podcast episode reveals how to improve..."

Then I edited it to this:

"My newest podcast episode... See more

The most effective way I've found to use Claude to get better at writing:

Paste in a bunch of chapters or articles.

It can accept ~350 pages of input, so go crazy.

Ask it which chapter or article is the best and to explain why it's the best.

Keep asking follow up questions and build a list of all the reasons it's strong. Feel free to add your own.

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