Writing effective prompts

Understanding ChatGPT

James Chapman

Curriculum Manager, DataCamp

Garbage in, garbage out

Garbage being thrown into a machine and producing more garbage.

Prompt for writing a job description.

Prompt for writing a job description.

Job description, data scientist, and New York are highlighted, ChatGPT is identifying the topic of the prompt.

Prompt for writing a job description.

The verb, write, is highlighted, as ChatGPT begins to understand the prompt.

Prompt and response of a job description for a data scientist.

Prompt engineering is the process of writing prompts to maximize the quality and relevance of the response

A prompt engineer.

Be clear and specific

A prompt engineer.

Keep it concise

Use correct grammar and spelling

Example: Generating example customers

Full Name, Age (Occupation)

Prompt and response of example names and occupations.

Understanding ChatGPT