Tag: prompt

Don’t sugar coat it

Sep 17, 2024

in AI

accuracy, ChatGPT, prompt

A prompt to get potentially more accurate (and also more concerning) responses from ChatGPT.
Role playing with generative AI

May 13, 2024

in AI, Note

ChatGPT, Claude, persona, prompt, prompting, role-playing, structured prompt

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/05/07/four-useful-roles-you-can-ask-chatgpt-or-claude-to-play If you are getting overly generic responses to your prompts, try asking Claude or ChatGPT to play one of these roles. Having said that, I’m not sure how much longer it’ll make sense to stick with the kinds of structured prompts we’ve gotten used to, now that we’re starting to see generative AI generate…
Generative AI can also generate prompts

May 11, 2024

in AI

Anthropic, Claude, prompt, prompt engineering, prompt generator, prompting

It turns out that generative AI can also generate prompts. Anthropic have released a prompt generator that creates prompts based on your intent, which you can then edit and fine tune. More evidence that prompt engineering isn’t going to be an occupation. Sometimes, the hardest part of using an AI model is figuring out how…
Custom Instructions for ChatGPT

Jan 29, 2024

in AI

ChatGPT, context, custom-instructions, prompt

ChatGPT’s custom instructions allow you to add preferences or requirements that you’d like ChatGPT to consider when generating its responses. It’s super useful to include this information in the context frame so that you don’t have to keep telling the model what that context is. “ChatGPT will consider your custom instructions for every conversation going…
Follow-up prompts to generative AI responses

Dec 14, 2023

in AI

advisor, large language model, LLM, prompt, tutorial

If your initial prompt isn’t specific enough, generative AI / Large Language Models can sometimes make assumptions about your level of understanding of the problem. In these cases, it can sometimes feel like you’ve hit a barrier because the response to your original question or instruction may not be helpful. In these cases you need…
Non-academic prompts for generative AI

Dec 13, 2023

in AI, Learning

assessment, exercise, learning, learning support, non-academic prompt, nutrition, prompt, sleep, social, students

I’ve recently been a part of several conversations about AI-proof (or AI-resilient) assessments; these are the ones that apparently make it difficult to use AI in non-prescribed ways. I think this is misguided and will write something about it another time. These conversations have led me to consider what other types of prompts we might…
Workshopping AI in higher education with students

Dec 12, 2023

in AI, Education, Students, Workshop

accessibility, bias, ethics, higher education, prompt, student-led, students, workshop

I’m thinking about contributing to a workshop activity that involves students working on practical issues related to the implementation of AI-based services in higher education. Here are some ideas that I think might be worth exploring.
Claude, help me convert a process into a narrative

Dec 5, 2023

in AI, Writing

academia, academic writing, Claude, prompt, writing

Recently I needed to provide a description of a process that we’re going to implement for an upcoming conference, but the process we’d developed in our meetings was written as a list i.e. short, incomplete sentences in bullet point format. We wanted to submit a narrative description so I took that outline and gave it…
A machine you are programming with words

Nov 25, 2023

in AI, Note

ChatGPT, Claude, large language model, prompt

https://oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/how-to-use-chatgpt-to-boost-your
An AI-supported health professions tutor (and a brief comparison with Claude)

Nov 20, 2023

in AI, Learning

Claude, example, health professions tutor, HPE-Bot, large language model, LLM, prompt, tutor, tutorial

https://hpe-bot.com/ Update: For more information about the additional functionality of this bot, see this LinkedIn post by Lambert Schuwirth. The interface is a bit basic, and I haven’t played around with it much, but it seems to do a decent job with the kinds of questions I asked. Also, the premium account seems to offer…
Claude, help me to write

Nov 18, 2023

in AI, Writing

academic writing, argument, blogging, critical feedback, critical friend, feedback, large language model, LLM, peer review, premises, process, prompt, prompt design, review, writing, writing coach, writing process

Yesterday I published a post describing my concerns with how universities are responding to the new paradigm of expertise-on-demand that’s facilitated by generative AI. At the end of that post I noted that I wrote it collaboratively with Claude, and this post describes what that process (kind-of) looked like. I also want to be clear…
Using generative AI to prepare a slideshow

Nov 9, 2023

in AI

Claude, Gamma, image generation, language model, lecture, lecture preparation, presentation, prompt, slides, slideshow, summarisation

A few weeks ago a colleague asked me to do a guest lecture in one of her modules. The brief was to explore a range of assistive technologies that could be used in social work practice, where ‘assistive technologies’ is conceived of more broadly than the typical ‘crutches’ and ‘falls detectors’. We wanted to introduce…
Claude, help me draft the outline of my academic paper

Nov 8, 2023

in AI, Publication, Writing

academic writing, AI-supported writing, article, ChatGPT, Claude, journal, journal article, language model, Lex, LLM, outline, prompt, prompt design, publication, research, writing

My last 2 posts have dealt with 1) the use of Claude to complete a peer review, and 2) how journals could include this process in their workflow. It follows that authors should be using LLMs as well. There are the obvious use cases; rephrasing passages, summarising, expanding, correcting, and so on. However, I think…