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This is your main working page for AI Prompts for Technical Writers. Use this page to find out what to name your files, see when projects are recommended to be completed, go to the online textbook and other resources for additional information.

Throughout this course, ChatGPT is used generically to refer to any chat AI application. Use whichever application you prefer.

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Course Overview

Go to course overview to see how this course is set up.

AI, LLM: brief overview

Use this AI, LLM overview to get a generalized sense of how AI prompt fir into LLMs.

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Fun with AI chat applications

Use this fun with ChatGPT study guide to experiment with simple prompts and get a feel for the application.

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Generate to and from e-mail

Use this AI chat e-mail study guide to see how AI chat can handle both sides of an e-mail exchange.

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Get AI chat to do some math

Use this AI chat math study guide to experiment with using AI chat to perform mathematical calculations.

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Set up the learnprompting.org embed

Use this learnprompting.org study guide to embed AI code on your computer.

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Use delimiters to indicate parts of the prompt

Use this delimiters study guide to find out how to indicate the different parts of a prompt.

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Request structured output

Use this structured output study guide to find out how to indicate the different parts of a prompt.

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Provide examples of successful output

You'll often see references to "few shot" prompts. It means providing examples of the output you hope to get.

Use this few shot study guide to find out how to make the prompt adhere to conditions.

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Specify steps for the model to think through first

This is a three-part practice. Use this translate, list study guide to find out how to cause the model to do some processing first in order to reach a good result.

Sometimes when you post a complex prompt to the model, it processes too quicky and reaches an incorrect result. On solution is to have it go through preliminary processing, which slows it down.

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Summarize text or extract from text

Use this summarize, extract study guide to find out how to summarize text or extract from text in various ways.

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Generate a product description from a fact sheet

Use this product description study guide to find out how to cause the model to create a product description from a fact sheet.

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Change focus to different audience

Use this audience refocus study guide to find out how to refocus the model on a different audience.

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Generate a short summary of a product

Use this product-summary study guide to find out how to a product summary from a product website.

Use this multiple-review-summary study guide to find out how to create summaries of multiple reviews.

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Infer sentiment

Use this sentiment-inference study guide to find out how to prompt AI to characterize the sentiment of a text.

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Translation
remember that iterative.mp4 does some translation

As of May 2024, ChatGPT 3.5 claims it can translate these language:

English
Spanish
French
German
Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)
Japanese
Russian
Arabic
Portuguese
Italian
Dutch
Korean
Hindi
Turkish
Swedish
Polish
Vietnamese
Greek
Thai
Hebrew

Use this AI translation study guide to find out how to get AI to translate to and from different languages.

Use this Universal Translator study guide to enable translation of multiple laguages from a single prompt.

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Tone transformation

Use this tone transform study guide to see how get AI to transform the tone of a message.

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Writing Check

Use this writing-check study guide to see how well ChatGPT can check for writing errors.

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Response to a customer complaint

Use this customer complaint study guide to generate an automated reply to an unhappy customer.

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Prompts to create images

Use this images study guide to learn prompts that generate iames.

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