This week we’re branching out from our typical free prompts and offering some quick tips on how to shorten your prompts. This will help you better utilize ChatGPT’s token limit and start your journey on becoming an efficient prompter.
Effectively operating in the AI ecosystem doesn’t necessarily mean crafting large, detailed prompts. Often the same results we get from our careful curations could be gathered with short, even tiny, prompts.
The future likely belongs to AI (to some extent) and mastering some oddball, but efficient, procedures may establish you as a power user of AI technology like OpenAI's ChatGPT. Trained on over a billion parameters, ChatGPT is incredibly adaptable to user input, allowing us to get creative with some ways to shorten our prompts.
1. Keywords, Keywords, Keywords. At its core, ChatGPT is a machine. This means, although its a conversational AI, it ultimately doesn’t need fluff words that surrounding the ones most important. Invoking just the keyword and nixing conversational words in your prompt can gather the same response with less words. Consider the command "Italicize…" instead of "Please could you make this italicized." Stacking keywords works just as well, allowing you to derive full responses with just a few tokens. “Weather, New York today” yields the same result as “Can you tell me what the weather is like in New York today?”