9 of the Best Bing (GPT 4) Prompts

00:00:00.000 | Sam Altman tweeted that writing a really great prompt for a chatbot persona is an amazingly

00:00:05.960 | high leverage skill and an early example of programming in a little bit of natural language.

00:00:10.940 | This video is about proving that that's correct with these game-changing prompts. I was genuinely

00:00:16.560 | mind-blown by a lot of these prompts so let me know in the comments which one is your favorite.

00:00:21.000 | Let's start with asking Bing to be your personal free interview coach for the exact position that

00:00:27.480 | you're applying for. I picked a job almost at random and then pressed the Bing button in the

00:00:32.380 | Edge browser. It opened up Bing chat. I then gave it this prompt. You will ask me interview questions

00:00:38.760 | for the position detailed on this page. Notice I did not specify the job I just said detailed on

00:00:45.140 | this page. Bing understood the job. I want you to only reply as the interviewer. Do not write all

00:00:50.760 | the conversation at once. Ask me the questions and wait for my answers. Do not write explanations

00:00:55.660 | and ask me the questions once.

00:00:57.460 | I will reply one by one waiting for my answers. This prompt was inspired by a GitHub post link in the description.

00:01:03.280 | And look what Bing does. It reads the page. It understands the job description and then it starts

00:01:10.720 | asking me relevant questions. It even gets into character. Please answer my questions as best as

00:01:16.120 | you can. Question one: Why do you want to work for us? And if you just thought these were going to be

00:01:20.800 | generic questions, no. It says thank you for your answer. What are some of the benefits and challenges

00:01:25.840 | of implementing robotics and engineering?

00:01:27.440 | I would like to know what you think about the job. I would like to know what you think about the job.

00:01:31.040 | This is part of what I would do in this job. People pay hundreds and thousands of dollars

00:01:36.480 | for interview coaches. But you could practice with Bing for free. You could even ask it to grade your

00:01:42.400 | answer. Furthermore, you could paste your CV and say my skills are listed below. Write out all the

00:01:48.400 | reasons I would be appropriate for the position listed on this page. And Bing understands what you

00:01:53.440 | mean and gives you the reasons why you might be a good fit. I would like to know what you think about

00:01:57.420 | the job. I think Bing might just be the ultimate job finding assistant.

00:02:01.900 | The next game changing prompt involves asking Bing to improve its suggestions. Imagine you wanted to

00:02:07.820 | create a YouTube channel and you ask it: Find 10 original names for a YouTube channel on the

00:02:12.620 | intersection of AI and politics. And I know what you're thinking. This is an easy prompt. Anyone

00:02:16.700 | could have come up with this. How is this game changing? But look at how bland the answers are.

00:02:21.020 | AI and democracy, AI politics, the future of politics with AI. They're okay but so bland. But you

00:02:27.260 | can ask Bing to research how best to name things and to improve its suggestions based on that

00:02:32.700 | research. Check this out. This particular prompt was inspired by Ethan Mollick and I wrote: Now use

00:02:38.460 | the Igor naming guide to come up with better names and tell me why they're better. This guide advises

00:02:44.220 | you to create evocative names that convey a rich meaning and emotion without being literal or

00:02:49.500 | generic. It suggests inventive, descriptive, evocative names. And based on this suggestion, look at the

00:02:55.980 | new names. I think they're brilliant. Spark, Ethos, Paradox, Influent, Polaris. I think Polaris is

00:03:02.940 | particularly impressive. It says: A name that suggests guidance, direction and leadership

00:03:08.140 | in the complex world of AI. So not all prompts are born equal.

00:03:12.220 | You can get Bing to improve upon itself. But we are just getting started with game changing

00:03:17.980 | Bing prompts. Not all of the prompts have to be strictly functional. I was absolutely blown

00:03:24.700 | away by this prompt. I think any adult would enjoy using the following prompts and clearly children

00:03:30.620 | would too. You can ask: I want you to act as my time travel guide. I will provide you with the

00:03:36.940 | historical period or future time I want to visit. And you will suggest the best events, sites or

00:03:42.620 | people to experience as if we were living in those times. Simply provide interesting suggestions and

00:03:48.860 | stay in character. My first request is: I want to visit the Viking period in Britain.

00:03:54.780 | And it gets into character. It transports us in time. Greetings traveller, you have chosen a

00:04:00.300 | fascinating and perilous time to visit. Some of the best events, sites or people to experience are:

00:04:05.500 | Witnessing the first Viking raid on Lindisfarne in 793. I want to go there by the way.

00:04:11.020 | Join a Viking longship expedition across the North Sea. Or even meet King Alfred the Great of Wessex,

00:04:16.940 | one of the most influential rulers in British history.

00:04:19.740 | I of course stayed in character and said: I would love to meet King Alfred, but where shall I go?

00:04:24.300 | Where shall I rest my head at night in these perilous parts?

00:04:28.140 | Right now in my head I am in Viking Britain. Bing replies: A wise choice traveller. King Alfred is a

00:04:34.220 | remarkable man who has faced many challenges and triumphs. He is a patron of learning and culture.

00:04:39.260 | To meet him you will have to travel to Wessex, the southernmost Anglo-Saxon kingdom. And then it

00:04:44.140 | suggests towns and villages where I can rest my head at night. These are all real and I may indeed

00:04:49.580 | visit them in real life. It even suggests ways I could continue. I want to stay in a monastery. I

00:04:54.220 | would love to stay in a castle, etc. This is role playing on another level. As I say, incredible for

00:05:00.140 | children and addictive for adults too. What about investments and making money?

00:05:05.020 | Thing is, Bing won't give you direct financial advice, but if you phrase the question like this,

00:05:10.860 | you can learn lots of interesting trends. I asked: If I had invested $100 in each of stocks, bonds,

00:05:17.820 | real estate and cash savings accounts in the US in 2000, what would they each be worth now? Imagine

00:05:24.140 | you're deliberating how to assign your portfolio. This could be genuinely interesting.

00:05:28.860 | Bing is now able to do four, up from three, simultaneous searches and compare the performance

00:05:35.340 | of each of these categories in any given time period. By the way, out of interest, stocks

00:05:40.620 | returned 6.5% so that $100 would now be worth $366. For bonds it will be $233. For property it

00:05:47.260 | will be $236 and for cash it will be $122. Now of course you would want to follow the links and do more research yourself,

00:05:54.060 | and Bing is never going to directly tell you how to invest your money. But for gaining basic financial

00:05:59.020 | education, Bing can be crucial. I would envisage over the next three to five years, financial

00:06:04.540 | advisors being mainly replaced with AI tech. But of course let me know what you think. I think this

00:06:10.620 | next prompt is also mind-blowing. When Bing makes mistakes, you can actually give it an example of a

00:06:17.740 | correct answer and Bing will improve its own logic. Bing chat isn't this static model that will always give the same output.

00:06:23.980 | You can teach it and this is called few-shot prompting. Here's a question that Bing and ChatGPT notoriously get wrong.

00:06:31.580 | The question is: "When I was six, my sister was half my age. Now that I'm 60, how old is my sister?"

00:06:38.060 | Now clearly if the sister was half your age, she would have been three at the time. That's an age

00:06:42.460 | gap of three and now that you're 60, she would be 57. But Bing gets this wrong as you can see below.

00:06:49.420 | And now you're thinking: "How is this a game-changing prompt if Bing gets it wrong?" What's

00:06:53.900 | game-changing is the next prompt because all you have to do is give it one correct example,

00:07:00.140 | preferably starting with the phrase "Let's think step by step". An entire academic paper has been

00:07:05.100 | written about how that phrase improves outputs. But follow it on with an example of a correct usage

00:07:11.340 | of logic. I gave an example of me being 10 and my sister being half my age. I ended with "Does this

00:07:16.940 | make sense?" Being understood and learnt. I gave it no further pointers and just asked: "So when I was

00:07:23.820 | six, my sister was half my age as before. Now that I'm 60, how old is my sister?" Notice I never said

00:07:29.100 | 57. I never gave it the right answer. So surely it would get it wrong again. No, it updates its logic,

00:07:35.420 | thinks it through and gets the answer right this time. This is called few-shot prompting and you can

00:07:41.100 | radically improve the performance of your prompts in this way. I think that's incredible. The next prompt is

00:07:47.260 | going to show you how to get around Bing's reluctance and turn learning into an amazing adventure. One thing

00:07:53.740 | that Bing is generally quite reluctant to do is to play act. Now I know I did show you it play acting

00:08:00.780 | earlier but in general it doesn't like doing it. And notice when I asked it to act as an

00:08:06.700 | entertaining etymologist, someone studying the history of words, it denied that request. It says

00:08:12.380 | "That's not my purpose". However, notice what happens when I clear the conversation

00:08:18.300 | and take away the request to act as a role. This time I took away the role play element

00:08:23.660 | and gave the request directly. Bing thought this was an interesting challenge. It was the exact

00:08:28.620 | same challenge it denied earlier and went along with it. And look at how fun this adventure can be.

00:08:33.260 | I said I'm going to give two words. I want you to trace the origins of the words

00:08:38.220 | and keep going back in time until you find a language that they were both spoken in.

00:08:43.580 | I then gave an example. This was a one-shot prompt and then said start with the words

00:08:48.300 | management and pizza. And it understood the game. It didn't just give me the origin of the words,

00:08:53.580 | it then said so both words have roots in Latin. That would be a language they were both spoken in

00:08:59.500 | in their earlier forms. After this the game was set. All I needed to do was give it two more words.

00:09:05.500 | I didn't need to explain the game again. I said sky and thing. I actually know a bit about the

00:09:10.940 | etymology, the word origin of these two words. And did you know that they both have roots in Proto-Germanic

00:09:16.540 | and Old Norse Viking language? You can read the fascinating word histories on the left. You can imagine

00:09:23.500 | using prompts like this to teach yourself or to teach others in an educational setting. It's so

00:09:28.620 | much more entertaining this way. The next prompt concerns prompt formatting and research. You can

00:09:35.020 | specify the exact format of Bing's outputs. This could be transformative for academic research

00:09:42.140 | or even personal research. I said give me one the date of publication,

00:09:47.260 | two a summary of the abstract and conclusion, three the main author, and four citations

00:09:53.420 | on five peer-reviewed, spelled wrong by the way, papers concerning caffeine consumption and cognitive

00:09:58.940 | performance. It understood exactly what I wanted and gave me this in this format. These are genuine

00:10:05.180 | links as you can see and of course the onus is on me to fact check them. But what's brilliant is the

00:10:10.700 | formatting. It's given me the date, given me the summary of the abstract, the main author, the citations

00:10:16.380 | and honestly the hallucinations are reducing gradually. Instead of relying on random articles you find on Google,

00:10:23.340 | you can do an instant meta-analysis of your own, comparing peer-reviewed studies by a range of

00:10:29.420 | authors. The next prompt can provide endless entertainment. One problem, you do have to use

00:10:35.020 | ChatGPT, not Bing because Bing denies the request. The prompt is amazing though. I want you to act as

00:10:40.860 | a drunk person. You will only answer like a very drunk person, texting and nothing else.

00:10:45.580 | You'll make a lot of grammar and spelling mistakes in your answers. My first sentence is "How are you?"

00:10:50.540 | And look at the super random conversation I have.

00:10:53.260 | This is so fun I might just continue this conversation now. ChatGPT is talking about pizza being the best

00:10:58.940 | and is now somehow randomly talking about a donkey. So I'm going to ask "Are you drunk?"

00:11:03.820 | and see what happens. My typing is drunk. Are you drunk? Let's see what ChatGPT comes up.

00:11:10.220 | Me? Drunk? No way! I'm just having a lot of fun tonight. This is just endlessly entertaining.

00:11:18.060 | Do you have any drink recommendation? Not for you ChatGPT, you're already drunk. I'm looking

00:11:23.180 | for something new to try. Try this yourself, you may even want to get into a random argument with

00:11:27.580 | ChatGPT. The last prompt involves writing styles and this reminds me of the controversy that has

00:11:34.140 | happened in AI art where you can visually imitate a certain artist. I suspect the same

00:11:40.860 | controversy is coming for writing because look what you can currently do. If you ask Bing for

00:11:46.700 | a generic paragraph about a generic event, a man crossing a road for example, what you tend to

00:11:53.100 | end up with is something okay. Vaguely interesting in topic. I mean this guy has a faint smile on his

00:12:00.220 | face as if he knew a secret. Okay that's kind of interesting. Better than what ChatGPT used to do.

00:12:05.020 | It's just that writing is very bland. But what you can now do is say something like "Rewrite this in

00:12:11.340 | the style of Carl Sagan". This particular suggestion again came from Ethan Mollick, an Ivy

00:12:16.380 | League professor. But look how it transforms the writing. "He lingered at the edge of a pavement. His

00:12:23.020 | gaze locked on the crimson symbol that forbade him to proceed." Look at the new vocabulary.

00:12:29.500 | "He had a modest attire. He resembled a typical inhabitant of this planet. He had a subtle curve

00:12:36.380 | on his lips as if he possessed a knowledge that eluded others." The writing quality just went

00:12:42.300 | up about three grades. And now to bring this full circle you can actually ask Bing to turn this

00:12:48.860 | into a current version mid-journey prompt. This is getting kind of meta

00:12:52.940 | but here's what Bing comes up with. These prompts here. I of course put them into mid-journey and

00:12:58.940 | some of the results were amazing. This is a man in a grey suit crossing a busy street in New York

00:13:04.220 | at night. Or how about a pixel art animation of a man crossing a road in an old-school video game

00:13:10.940 | retro. Or maybe a cartoon style of drawing of a disguised superhero. Honestly there are dozens

00:13:17.740 | more examples of incredible prompts I could show you. I just didn't want the video to get too long. I've done

00:13:22.860 | everything with Bing from playing tic-tac-toe, generating ASCII art of a bear for example,

00:13:28.540 | coming up with startup ideas in London and getting Bing to help me compose music. The possibilities

00:13:34.700 | go on and on. But do let me know in the comments if even the prompts I have shown you are as

00:13:39.500 | game-changing as I believe. Don't forget to leave a like and have a wonderful day.

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