Prompt Collection

I’m going to start gathering prompts I’ve found useful onto pages. You can check out the Machine Learning or LLM Prompts categories for more.

Reading Assistance

(You’re reading a paragraph with long sentences, and it’s getting confusing.)

(ChatGPT 3.5) Break the text below into paragraphs, one per sentence, and number them. Print the sentences. Then, in a second section, summarize each sentence in 10 words or less, and list each with numbers.

(You’re reading history, and wondering about a couple people in the text. Maybe you’ve got them confused or conflated two people.)

(ChatGPT 3.5) Was there a relationship between ____ and ____? If so, what was the time frame, nature of the relationship, and what political or social effects did this relationship affect?

(ChatGPT 3.5) Please explain how I can learn how to read the following statistical analysis from a paper. (paste in the Statistical Analysis below)

(GPT responds with a detailed explanation of the paragraph.)

Please explain each of the statistical techniques, and give me guidance about how I can study each technique.

(Then you go study.)

Programming Assistance

Please reformat and explain this code.

Add comments for each of the functions.

create an sqlite3 statement to create a new table with fields: sku and description

Odds and Ends, and Weird Stuff

(ChatGPT 3.5) please compile a shopping list, with bullet points, organized by supermarket sections (produce, meat, dairy, snacks, canned, frozen, baking and spices, other), for the following foods which I’d like to eat this week: pigs in blankets, shabu shabu, tacos, greek salad, miso shiru, chicken in black bean sauce.

(Bing Image Creator DALL-E) Make a marvel universe character, The Mechanic, based on Booker T Washington. Then have him battle with The Illuminator, WEB DuBois, the man who can think lightning into existence.

(DALL-E doesn’t like to draw hamburgers without cheese. This prompt produced one for me, but it took a couple tries.) plain grilled beef patty on bun, no condiments, no toppings. bland, nothing. white background, value menu.

(Note that I avoided using the word “cheese”.)

(ChatGPT 3.5) I’m looking for topic or forms of prompts that are likely to produce divergent results across two LLMs.

(This writes a document explaining ways to fool the LLM. When you have divergent results when you use the same prompt on two LLMs, one of them is likely to be wrong. If you have only one LLM, each of these techniques might produce a wrong result.)

Comparison Shopping Single Page App Utility

create a web page that will generate search links for the following stores: target, walmart, rite-aid, walgreens, cvs, amazon, swanson vitamins. the output should list each store and search, and be linked to the search, and open in a new tab. add a button to open all the links in new tabs.

(paste the result into a text file, name it shoppingsearch.html, and open it in a web browser)

the rite-aid link didn’t work. here is a correct url for a search for “d-mannose”: https://www.riteaid.com/shop/catalogsearch/result/?q=d-mannose

Training Technique

(Before you ask it to do something, you can train the chat session by studying and existing example. I wanted it to write memes.)

Can you tell me if a meme makes sense?

OK the meme is like this:
Line 1: Angry Uncle Sam, “Hates Muslims”
Line 2: Angry Uncle Sam, “Hates Chinese”
Line 3: Crazy Uncle Sam in Clown Makeup, “Cares a lot about Muslim Chinese”

(It then presents an analysis. Read it, and correct it, until it understands. Then ask:)

Can you write some memes using that template? Make it about American foreign policy.

(It writes some. I had problems where it changed the image in line 3. It lost the idea that the punchline was contradicting the first two lines.)

Reading Assistance

The following is a description of Hegel’s dialectical method. Please summarize it as steps, and keep it brief. Then write a way this method could be applied to improve reading comprehension in a reading group discussion setting. The goal is to improve reading text, rather than critiquing the text.

(I copied the text from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, but Wikipedia has one as well.)

Application of Hegelian Dialectical Method to a Reading Group Discussion

Spreadsheets

write a google sheet that will cost out the price of a food item (like a sandwich) based on the cost of ingredients. ingredient costs will be recorded from shopping receipts, and are in dollars per pound, dollars per unit, or dollars per case with total number of units.

Asking the Model what it Knows

(Instead of trying to guess what words the model will like, ask the model to tell you what it knows. Those will be the words to use.)

tell me 50 user interface controls you can make using the React library

tell me 50 user interface controls you can make using the Material Design library

(this causes the model to print words it probably understands, and you can use, when you ask the model to create a user interface)

(You can also use a prompt to do the same for DALL-E or Image Creator. These will cause the model to draw things that fit the category. It will tend to pick the most popular things.)

montage of many squishy fruits

big pile of many squishy fruits

Help me decompose a task into subtasks, and then put an amount of labor required onto each subtask, and then, calculate a total of labor required. The task is: a bicycle tune up.