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Ryan Gilbert
Did you use ChatGPT this week?
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If so, what did you use it for?
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Matthew Ritchie
Launching soon!
I've been using it to help edit some of my blog posts based on a technique I adapted from the New York Times's Kevin Roose. First, I prompt ChatGPT by asking: What are the principles of Strunk and White's 'The Elements of Style'? Once a response has been generated, I follow up with this prompt: Using the principles outlined above, please rewrite the following blog post. Rewrite my input following Strunk and White's principles, and provide a detailed explanation of what you changed and why, sentence by sentence. Here's the blog post: [insert text] ChatGPT will rewrite it and then provide a detailed breakdown of what it changed and which principles it used for each change. It's super handy when you're trying to condense or simplify any writing (not just blog posts).
Chris Messina
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@matthew @matthew_ritchie can you not just ask it to apply Strunk and White's 'The Elements of Style'? Does it need to regurgitate them first?
Matthew Ritchie
Launching soon!
@chrismessina You can do that, too. I've found that asking ChatGPT to list out the principles first provides better results, though. It seems to give it more concrete examples to go off of and helps if you want ChatGPT to explain more thoroughly why it's suggesting each change. An example I've been experimenting with is using a more modern grammar and style guide, Dreyer's English by Random House copy chief Benjamin Dreyer. If I prompt ChatGPT to list out "the principles" of the book vs. "the main grammar and style principles," the results will vary. Subsequently, when you put in text for ChatGPT to edit, it will focus on different aspects of your writing based on the output from the first query.
David Klein
I learned my wife's cousin's baby was named Charles. Charles' cousins names are Henry and James. This got me thinking... where are these names coming from? I asked ChatGPT for books in the fiction genre that include those 3 names for characters and voila: To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride & Prejudice, and A Tale of Two Cities were listed.
Jochen Schneider
@diklein have you tried to ask it to correct it? That’s one of the things that amazes me everyday
Alexandra Bjargardóttir
Yes - to help me rework/edit some copy. Pretty much 9/10 times that’s what I use it for and it’s a great rubber duck for copywriting.
Kunal Mehta
Yes, indeed! I've been actively using ChatGPT this week to brainstorm ideas and solve problems. It has become my mentor for almost every situation.
Tom P
I develop training material for internal staff, and I'm not an engineer in the slightest. So I used it to help write some html code that I can use in @workramp to get my training looking better and more engaging.
Ernest Gerber
I use it daily. Product Requirements, BRS, Book Summaries and getting examples of real world implementation of these books, Assisting in explaining code snippets and more examples with video recommendations, figuring out how to build WordPress-related customizations, Been teaching it Midjourney prompting, Created a Python course to learn 20% of the info that gets used 80% of the time focused on Business Intelligence for Product Managers, created a 6-week Mentorship program for UX interns, DId a personal SWOT analysis, content writing and rewriting, personal writing style analysis, Research, Idea generation, copywriting. Just to mention a few.
BALAMURALI T R
Primarily to help me with a framework of understanding guesstimate problems better. My current framework seems to have loopholes, and I wanted private tutoring on that. The flaw became visible when I tried to teach it to someone, and they asked for a doubt.
I've been using it mainly for two things; generating ideas for marketing copies, and generating ideas for strategies. I've been wanting to learn how to properly prompt it for SQL queries, but haven't had the time yet to study up.
Jonathan Godinez
I've been using it to make up stories for a creative endeavor of mine and for copy work, on the job, of course!
Nope been on holiday 🤪
Chris Messina
Top Hunter
Used it in an attempt to rewrite a shellscript for an Alfred Workflow. It got it wrong. 😞
Ryan Gilbert
@chrismessina As soon as I read "attempt"... 😅 haha
Utkarsh Choudhary
Yes, used it to enhance my social media content and also sense check some legal documents we were getting drafted. It's been a game changer tbh.
Sarah Joy Street
I use it as a baseline for social media content writing. It’s also been helpful for creating taglines.
Font Bots
yes using regularly https://fontbots.com/
Oh yes! To summarise one paragraph which I was feeling to lazy to read completely!😅
ronniehiggins
Come up with interview questions for a round of subject matter interviews I have coming up.
Ryan Gilbert
@ronniehiggins This sounds like a super interesting use case. Can you elaborate a tiny bit? What prompt did you use?
ronniehiggins
@ryangilbert Yeah. So the chat didn't start with me asking for questions but asking ChatGPT to analyze content about the topic using the Bing and link reader integrations then tell me why the content wouldn't satisfy my audience's needs and make recommendations for fulfilling them. From there I told ChatGPT that I was going to conduct interviews to gather the material required to fill the gap left open by existing content on the topic and asked it to come up with some questions.
Axel Borry
asked GPT to prepare a running practice for my next run :)
Yen Ju Lai
Almost every to rephrase copywriting or to do creative thinking
Ramsey
@laiyenju what kind of creative thinking did you use it for?
Kristen Ruby
I run my tweets through ChatGPT before I post. Prompt: Check grammar.
Masoud Masoomi
Yes, work , life, it is going to replace with google in some aspects