Prompt Engineering 101

Let's say you want to learn something new. Instead of asking ChatGPT the following question: "Teach Me AI", which is a very bad prompt because it has no context (ChatGPT is not a mind reader, yet). You could Start broad but then zoom-in (with follow up questions), but why not ask it the following:

I am a teacher at a community college teaching introduction to AI. The course will be given 2 days a week for a duration of 4 weeks. Create me a course outline.

Don't feel bad for lying to it, AI doesn't have feelings yet! What you're trying to accomplish in this scenario is to leverage ChatGPT to help you out in life, and you've just discovered a great trick.

Are you a programmer who uses json alot? Just Ask ChatGPT to answer you in valid json format!