Advanced Prompt Engineering

Now it’s time for you to go above & beyond. Prompting your first prompt is good. But the art of follow-up prompting will get you much deeper. This is why it’s “Chat”GPT and not just GPT.

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List of potential follow-ups I use:

• Continue
• Elaborate
• Clarify
• Explain more
• Explain how it fits into the bigger picture
• Compare and contrast with [xxxxx]
• Critique for problems, limitations and biases
• Evaluate the credibility of your sources
• Expand without repetition
• Give real life examples
• Summarise
• Summarise in concise bullet points
• Let’s think step by step.
• Let’s work this out in a step by step way to make sure we have the right answer.
• Review what you wrote, does it makes sense or are there potential problems with it?
• Verify against credible sources and expert opinions
• Explain like I am 5
• Give me 10 more
• Give an example
• What do you mean by [xxxxx]
• Why did you write [xxxxx]
• What are your sources for this
• Can you explain why you structured it like this
• Please remove the section about [xxxxx]
• Please add more to the section on [xxxxx]
• How does it fit into the bigger picture
• What are the next steps
• Walk me through your thought process
• Any alternative options
• What are the potential benefits and drawbacks
• Playing the Devil’s Advocate, why wouldn’t it work like that
• How would this impact the current situation
• What are the main challenges in doing this
• Explain in simpler terms
• What would be the best course of action in your opinion
• What resources or support do you think will be needed
• If someone suggested this plan, what would you advise them
• Write it again in markdown format
• Write it again in a table
• Write it again in a table with the first column being sequential numbers
• Translate it
• Rewrite it in this style: [xxxx]
• Critique what you have done. Tell me why it is bad.
• Think and explain step and step.
• Out of the list you gave, which would you use and why.
• Rewrite 5 variations of it.
• Write with an IQ of 150

The best follow-up is “calling out the mistake” by explaining to ChatGPT why it answered wrong.