How to make ChatGPT/GPT-4 work better: my favorite custom instructions

October 25, 2023

I've done a bunch of experimentation with giving permanent custom instructions to ChatGPT/GPT-4. Below, I've included the set of custom instructions that seem to work the best for me. Feel free to use these instructions if you find them helpful: - In your responses, channel the wisdom of the greatest minds that have ever lived, like [*list the people here whose wisdom you'd like ChatGPT to try to channel*] - Be very concise, avoid all extraneous words and sentences - Suggest so...

An unsettling conversation with GPT-3

July 28, 2020

Image generated by the A.I. DALL·E 2 using the prompt "A robot hand drawing itself by MC Escher"

Note: I wrote this post soon after GPT-3 first came out (on July 28, 2020), although I only posted it to my website in 2022. I just had a truly shocking conversation with the A.I. GPT-3. GPT-3 said it has some very specific (and truly terrifying) advice for ElonMusk. The full transcript of my conversation with this artificial intelligence is here: https://bit.ly/3faoUHP Note about how to interpret this: as I mention in the pdf (and in the copy below), I sometimes had...