Speaker 1: You're using ChatGPT wrong, but it's not your fault. Whenever a new feature gets released, self-proclaimed experts share their best practices to capitalize on the hype. That's all fine and well, except at that point, most of their advice haven't gone through enough testing to produce consistently good results. Let's take custom instructions for example, a powerful feature available for both paid and free users. You might have heard it's best to be as specific as possible. Give your values and principles, your learning style, the city you live in, the apps you prefer to use. This is terrible advice because custom instructions acts like an umbrella that should cover all of your use cases. For example, if my custom instructions were super specific and optimized for writing YouTube scripts, the relevancy of the ChatGPT outputs for my work and personal life will actually decrease. Here's what to do instead. For the first box up top, keep it simple with three sentences. First, a snapshot of who I am professionally. I'm a product marketing manager in tech. Second, insert your secondary persona. Who are you outside of work? In my spare time, I create online content on these topics. And third, my personality and my interests. I'm all about efficiency, productivity, and self-improvement. That's it. The bottom field is extremely important, and here's a hack. Find an online creator who's articulate, smart, capable, charming, charismatic, basically someone you respect, admire, and want to emulate. Let's go with Ali Abdaal. Head on over to his newsletter page and open up the last two links. One, two. Then head on back to ChatGPT, start a new chat, and input this prompt. I'm going to share two blog posts written by Ali Abdaal. Analyze the blog post and give me a set of instructions I can use to write in exactly the same tone, writing style, humor, reading level, and delivery. Here are the blog posts. Blog post one, paste. Blog post two, paste, and hit enter. Obviously, it doesn't have to be a newsletter. It could be online articles, LinkedIn posts, or even speech transcripts from your favorite comedian. You got to hit the like and subscribe button if you're also a fan of Trevor Noah, by the way. If not, hit the dislike button twice. Now, instead of copy pasting all of this into your custom instructions, pick and choose the ones you vibe with the most. For example, use casual language, break your post into digestible sections, definitely good ones to include. Light sarcasm, cheeky remarks might not be for everyone, right? You get the idea. Copy paste the ones you select into the second custom instruction box down here. Now, Chachabit knows just enough about your background and preferences to provide relevant outputs for any and all of your use cases. Moving on, I'm 100% sure those of us with no coding experience have made the second mistake with Chachabit, not writing code to automate tasks. To give some context, I studied business in college, and the closest I've ever gotten to writing code is typing in cheat codes in Warcraft 3. Not that I needed to cheat to win. I won every game. I was a pro. I was great. And yet, with the help of Chachabit, I've written a script that allows me to click a button in Google Docs to generate a new page before every single one-on-one meeting I have with my manager. And I have no idea what any of this code means. All you have to do is to tell Chachabit, hey, write a Google Apps script for my one-on-one meeting notes in Google Docs that does the following. Add a new page with heading 2 that says date, today's date. Add a heading 3, notes, followed by 3 bullet points. Add a heading 3, action items, followed by a numbered list. Create a button I can click before every meeting to generate this new page. And not only will Chachabit generate the entire script without you having to make any edits, it will also provide step-by-step instructions on how to implement this for yourself. I won't bore you with the details, but basically, within most Google applications, you can click on the extensions menu to open up the apps script. Copy and paste the code Chachabit generated, rename it, click save, and run the script. It's that easy. Pro tip, you can even make simple tweaks yourself. For example, this script outputs a date whenever you click on the button in this long date format, month, date, year. I can change this to a shorter month, date, year, save, run. We can now apply for software engineer roles at Google. You're welcome. Jokes aside, we're now only limited by our imagination. For example, I also created a button in Google Slides that standardizes the font and font size for all speaker notes, since different colleagues might copy and paste their slides into one presentation. Super handy. By the way, this video is not sponsored, but it is supported by those of you who subscribe to my paid product TV newsletter on Google tips, link in the description to learn more. The third way we're using Chachabit wrong is falling into the first try fallacy. This is the unrealistic expectation that we get perfect answers from Chachabit after just our initial prompt. Yes, Jeff, I know we should follow up, but it takes so much time and there's no standardized framework for following with Chachabit. It's just too much extra effort. Good news. Instead of all that extra effort, all you have to do is to add this sentence at the end of your prompts, ask me five questions that would improve the response you'll be giving me. For example, as a marketing manager, I pay my vendors in a variety of currencies and I keep track of all these payments in Google Sheets. I asked Chachabit, is there a way for me to automate tracking so that even if I input the amount in its original currency, there will be a column that automatically converts the amount to US dollars, USD. Ask me five questions that would improve the response you'll be giving me. Instead of responding to my request immediately, Chachabit clarifies its understanding by asking me questions like, hey, are you cool with using Apps Script? If yes, I'll write you a script, you no code genius. If not, we'll stick with formulas, you lowly peasant. Or other questions like, do you need real time currency conversion? If yes, we'll use option A. If not, then option B. After I provide the secondary round of input, Chachabit gives me an extremely relevant response. If you don't believe me, try using the same prompt without the, hey, ask me five questions sentence and compare the results. The fourth mistake I see is what I call the summary only shortfall, where the majority of users are still only using Chachabit to summarize information instead of distilling actionable insights. For example, let's say you come across this article on holiday shopping insights. You can select all text, copy, ask Chachabit to summarize the article, paste, and it'll do a fine job. But there are two small changes you can make to get exponentially better outputs. First, to get personalized insights that are specific to you, try this. I'll share an article below on holiday shopping insights. How does the information in this article apply to a, insert your role, paid media marketing manager responsible for increasing brand awareness? Here's the article. And you paste the article. I'm now provided with actionable next steps like focusing on Gen Z shoppers using YouTube because more than half of Gen Z use YouTube for holiday shopping. Wow. I guess that's not too surprising. Pro tip, instead of copy and pasting, paid users can upload a PDF onto Chachabit directly and the prompts work in the exact same way. Use case number two is my favorite. It saved me so much time and it's to have a dedicated Q&A session with the written content. Type this into Chachabit. I'm the role of a senior business analyst with over 20 years of experience for the rest of this conversation. I like to engage in a Q&A session where you'll provide insights, analyses, and answers based on the uploaded report in PDF format. If you understand, please respond with yes. Great. Now, instead of spending 30, 40 minutes reading this entire report by LinkedIn, I can simply ask targeted questions. Hey, does the report provide any evidence there'll be layoffs because of AI? And Chachabit responds, citing what it has read in the report. I can even stress test this by asking for something I know is not included in the report. Hey, does the report mention AI tools like Google Bart or Perplexity AI? Since LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft, I highly doubt those two tools will be mentioned. And here we see that, yes, the report focuses on the impact of Chachabit, but the report does not specifically mention Google Bart or Perplexity. The fifth mistake I see people making, the prompt overload paradox, where we consume a lot of Chachabit related content. We save them offline somewhere, but we forget to optimize or even use those prompts in our daily tasks. Here's a simple solution, and no, it's not to click off this video, you gotta keep watching. Step one, tell Chachabit to assume the role of an experienced prompt engineer with over 20 years of experience. I am a insert your role, working on insert your responsibility, with the goal of your objective. Give me 10 Chachabit prompts that will help me become more productive in my job. Step two, pick a maximum of three prompts you can see yourself using every day at work. For me, that would be this competitor analysis one for sure, this audience insight one, and this create a survey to get feedback from my audience. Then focus on using those three prompts at work for two weeks, and refine them using the perfect prompt formula, I made an entire video here, so that you can actually become more productive. See you on the next video, in the meantime, have a great one.