🤖 AI Tips & Tricks

The more specific your prompt, the better the output:

Tell the AI what expert role to assume:

Give background information for better responses:

Show examples of what you want:

Set default preferences for all conversations:

1. Click your profile → Settings → Personalization → Custom instructions
2. Add background about yourself (role, preferences)
3. Specify how ChatGPT should respond (format, tone, length)
4. These apply to all new chats automatically

Don't settle for the first response:

• Continue: "Continue from where you left off"
• Refine: "Make this more concise" or "Expand on point 3"
• Regenerate: Click regenerate button for alternative
• Edit: Edit your prompt and resubmit

Upload files and run Python code (ChatGPT Plus):

• Upload CSV, Excel, PDF files for analysis
• Create charts and visualizations from data
• Process images (resize, convert, edit)
• Run calculations and simulations

Create specialized AI assistants for specific tasks:

1. Click "Explore" → "Create a GPT"
2. Describe what you want it to do
3. Add custom instructions and knowledge files
4. Test and refine, then save for reuse

Claude excels at analyzing lengthy documents:

• Upload PDFs, docs, or paste long text
• Ask for summaries, insights, or specific information
• Claude can handle 100,000+ tokens (75,000+ words)
• Great for legal docs, research papers, reports

Claude creates interactive artifacts you can edit and share:

• Code snippets in separate, runnable windows
• Documents, diagrams, and visualizations
• Can be edited in real-time
• Easily copy or download results

Request specific formats for better integration:

Get Claude to show its work:

Use AI to improve your writing:

• Draft: "Write a professional email to [recipient] about [topic]"
• Improve: "Make this email more concise and professional: [paste email]"
• Tone shift: "Rewrite this in a friendly/formal tone"
• Proofread: "Check this for grammar and clarity issues"

Accelerate your coding workflow:

• Generate: "Create a Python function that [description]"
• Debug: "Why is this code giving an error: [paste code]"
• Explain: "Explain what this code does line by line"
• Optimize: "How can I make this code more efficient?"
• Convert: "Convert this JavaScript to Python"

Accelerate learning and research:

• Explain: "Explain [concept] like I'm 12 years old"
• Compare: "What's the difference between [A] and [B]?"
• Summarize: "Summarize the key points from [text/article]"
• Quiz: "Create 5 quiz questions about [topic]"
• Analogy: "Explain [complex topic] using a simple analogy"

Generate and refine ideas:

• Ideas: "Generate 10 unique blog post ideas about [topic]"
• Names: "Suggest creative names for a [type] company that [description]"
• Solutions: "What are creative solutions to [problem]?"
• Critique: "What are potential flaws in this idea: [idea]"

Build reusable prompt frameworks:

Break complex tasks into steps:

1. Step 1: "List the main topics for a blog post about [subject]"
2. Step 2: "Expand topic 3 into an outline"
3. Step 3: "Write the introduction based on this outline"
4. Step 4: "Now write the first section..."

Tell AI what NOT to do:

Important guidelines for AI usage:

• Privacy: Don't share sensitive personal or company data
• Verify: Always fact-check AI outputs, especially for critical info
• Disclose: Be transparent when using AI-generated content
• Review: Human review is essential for important decisions
• Learn: Use AI as a learning tool, not a replacement for thinking