ChatGPT Prompt Guide Offers 28 Tips for Better AI Outputs
Updated
Updated · WIRED · Jun 21
ChatGPT Prompt Guide Offers 28 Tips for Better AI Outputs
3 articles · Updated · WIRED · Jun 21
Summary
A new guide lays out 28 prompt-engineering tactics aimed at getting more useful, creative and tailored responses from ChatGPT and similar AI chatbots.
Key methods focus on adding structure and context—asking for clarifying questions first, requesting the “80-20” of a topic, setting word limits, defining the audience, and supplying examples or starting text.
The tips also highlight multimodal and personalization features, including using phone-camera images, uploading files, generating or editing pictures, creating tables and playlists, and adjusting memory or temporary chat settings.
Several suggestions push ChatGPT beyond default answers through role-play, debate, quizzes, feedback, web search and style imitation, while noting some features require a paid ChatGPT Plus subscription.
The article frames prompt engineering as a growing skill as consumer AI tools become mainstream, arguing that small wording changes can materially improve output quality.