In my last “bake off” of which GPT clicked best for me and served my needs, Grok was the clear winner.
This week, ChatGPT put itself strongly back in the running by adding the “extended memory” capability. First use case? Improving all my prompts.
I have a collection of documents, tweets, thoughts, and mind maps I’ve been collecting on how to write great prompts. It’s a lot to remember. Now I don’t have to. I created a new conversation with ChatGPT:
I’m going to provide you with several documents that have information on how my prompts for GPTs can be better. In each conversation I have with you, I want you to reference this information and ask me questions that will improve my prompts before you actually address the question I’m asking. I’m willing to spend the extra time refining the prompt to get better answers unless I specifically indicate otherwise.
Then I fed it the prompt engineering documents, notes, and mindmaps from this channel.
Now, in any new conversation, I can invoke that “Prompt Refinement Process.” That way, before answering my query, ChatGPT asks me specific questions to improve the quality of my prompt without me having to remember all the things.
Since I’m still struggling mightily after moving from Notion (which I liked, but did not love) to Apple Notes, I thought I’d apply the new skills to getting it help me pick a notes app.
Nevermind. ChatGPT is dumb. I’m going back to Grok.
AI is dumb. I’m going back to pen and paper.