Hey all, just a quick email to give you the skinny on a big announcement.
Today I have added my Prompt Hackers Cookbook to the Prompt Hackers substack.
What is the Cookbook?
A recipe book for advanced Text-2-Text ChatGPT Prompting
During my AI tinkering, I discovered a fascinating pattern. I found myself reusing snippets of wording and seamlessly integrating them into new prompts, creating what I call "super" prompts that yield superior and more nuanced output from ChatGPT. As I compiled these snippets, it struck me that they resembled a recipe for advanced prompts. And voila! The Prompt Hackers Cookbook came to life.
How it Works
You may have come across ChatGPT prompts that say something like ‘You are an SEO expert, …” This is an example of ‘prompt priming’, essentially setting the mindset for the a.i. model, so that it produces more relevant output. This technique works pretty well, but in the words of my old maths teacher ‘could do better’!
I have found that priming can be taken a step further, by creating whole personas related to the prompts I want to give it. For example, the persona of a fitness trainer, or SEO, expert, or Entrepreneur, or Chef, etc. The more detailed this persona, the better the output.
The process is simple:
Decide on the persona you need
Copy/Paste my Persona Template to a notepad app.
Find the relevant ingredients: Skills or Traits, and copy/paste them into the template.
Give your new persona a name and fill in the remaining blanks.
Copy/Paste your persona to ChatGPT and run.
Start prompting.
I’m steadily building a collection of ingredients so that you can put together your own personas, but I’m also adding in some read-to-go personas too.
All of the ingredients, prompts and ingredients are intended for you to tweak to suit any specific need you have.
What next?
The Prompt Hackers Cookbook is a work in progress, and it will grow over time. So I would like to ask you for your patience please.
Unlike the Midjourney prompts, I don’t intend to send out daily emails for the cookbook. Instead I will add it to the weekend news email to let you know what I’ve added.
The best way to get familiar with the cookbook is to take a look around and have a play with the template. here are some links to help you…
The full About page for the cookbook
The Start Here page
The Persona Template
The ingredients
And Finally
Firstly I want to thank you for your continued support for Prompt Hackers, it truly means so much to me.
Secondly, it would be awesome if you could find the time to mention Prompt Hackers and The Prompt Hackers Cookbook on your socials. Having just passed the 1,000 subscribers mark, I now have my eyes set on 2,000!
As always, just reach out if you have any questions or suggestions.
Cheers
Andy