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Use detailed instructions

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- [Instructor] To get the most out of ChatGPT, our prompts have to include detailed instructions. In particular, we want to tell ChatGPT what it is we want, and in what format we want the output to be. In a previous example, we asked ChatGPT to summarize a portion of an article for a second grader. Now notice that we didn't really specify what kind of summary we wanted. As a result, ChatGPT gave us this generic summary with just a few paragraphs. But what if we were more detailed about what kind of output we expected? Let's go ahead and copy this and I'll clear my chat, and I'll paste it to a new chat. And I'll say this. "Summarize this article for a second grader. Create a presentation by generating a slide deck. Generate a pptx file." I'll submit the prompt. Now once you see this analyzing spinner, you can click the arrow and see the code that ChatGPT will run to produce this file. Now at the time of this recording, the free version of ChatGPT may not be able to run code and produce…

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