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This is my game on how I personally interact with like a chat GBT or like a Gemini or like a claud Now I'm coming from this angle of like somebody who knows how these systems work on a technical level.
So I created a framework for how to write your prompts to be able to get the most out of the AI interaction, but in a way where it's not just spitting out an answer at to but where it's taking your genius and your thoughts and helping you structure them and also teaching you along the way, So think about it like this, if I could talk to let's say I have a business plan idea, right, the way Chat, GPT is by default, or any of these large language models is by default is they've got all these data.
From all over the Internet.
And so when you ask it, hey, I want to create like an app for babysitters that connects parents with like background checked babysitters on demand.
Right, come write my business plan.
It's gonna grab from the randomness of all of that
to give you an answer. Now, why would I want to talk to some random person who I don't know the experience and a background that they have, Versus I could turn it into like a business professor at Harvard that has like extensive experience creating these types of services, like maybe you were the dude who scaled like DoorDash to its first billion dollars, right, and then engage with it in a way where it starts to ask me questions about my idea and then starts to give me
an answer based on my idea, not just based on whatever it grabbed out of all those terabytes and terabytes of data, you feel me, And so that framework I call chat in the hat, right, and I know it's a little funny framework, but it's really to help you learn how to think like an AI, so you can talk to the AI in a way to amplifize your genius. So what does chat and the hat stand for. It's a three part framework when you're riding your.
And this is extremely important ladies and gentlemen. If you didn't pay attention to anything else, which shame on you if you did that, pay attention to this part because this is extremely point. How to actually talk to AI to get the proper response. That's that's vitally important because you could speak to somebody and it's like a human being, right like I could speak to somebody. You have to
be educated enough to ask the question. So how I'm asking the question is going to determine the answer that I'm getting. That's not talked about enough. So what she's about to talk about is actually vitally important.
Especially because when you're talking to a large language model like I mentioned before, it doesn't actually understand what you're saying, so it's not going to.
Get the gist of it right.
You have to give it the specific instructions that you wanted to execute. And the more specific and the more clear you give it, the more it'll answer in the way that you need it to. But again, it's just taking whatever prompt you give it and calculating based on that. So if you say, write me a business plan about an app for you know, connecting background check babysitters with parents,
it's going to write something. But if I give it first the history right, and then I give it an attitude how I want it to complete that task, and then I give it a specific instructions on how to complete that task, the conversation is going to be completely different.
So I'm gonna do real quikest breakdown each component of this, and in real time live on the chat we're gonna make up an idea together, and I'm gonna show you, guys the difference between using just a regular prompt versus the chat and the hat framework.
You feel me. So, first, what is history? History is?
You want to tell it the relevant skills and experience that it needs to have to be able to help you accomplish that task.
So if I have an.
Idea for a app me just talking to chat GPT, I don't know who it could be pulling from versus giving it like Yo, you're an award winning person in this field who has this specific experience in twenty years of that experience, Right, you want to give it some type of history that it can refer to to pull in that knowledge from all of those terabytes of data to specifically be using the knowledge.
That you need to complete your task.
So, if it's a like a social media thing, right, you don't just want to go ask CHADGBT about how to make a viral social campaign.
You want Chad.
GBT to like be an expert at generating viral campaigns, like you made a company similar to mine, have fifty million views on TikTok with your funny short videos.
Right.
Then it kind of puts itself in that framing and starts to think from that lens. Then you want to give it an attitude, which is like what is the mentality or the vibe that it has while doing the task?
Is it helpful? Is it you know, playing Devil's advocate? Is it you know?
Does it like to ask you questions and teach you how to do it instead of just giving you an answer? Right, So you want to give it like the attitude like how and what the vibe is that it uses when it's thinking about how to do your task. Then you want to give it the actual task, which is you need to specifically tell it what it should do and
how it should do it. So it's deep dive into each one of these a little bit more so first with the hit again, you want to give it that relevant knowledge, experience, and accomplishments that a person would need to actually be useful to you in.
Completing that task.
So you say something like you are a you know, award winning business plan developer, right, Like you're a professor at Harvard, Wharton and Stanford in creating startup business plans. Now CHAGBT does know what these kinds of institutions are, and it's not gonna know that, Like you can't be the chair of business at Harvard, Stanford and at like Wharton and you see Berkeley all at once.
Like it's not.
Gonna know that, but it is going to understand what it means to be like the chair of business at Stanford or the chair of the business school at Harvard, right, because it has enough data to understand what those specific things are. And then you might want to give us some experience like you have you know, you have forty years of experience helping startups create business plans. Well, you know you have, you know you were the person who
created the original business plan for DoorDash. Because if I'm thinking about sitter as an app, right like this, you know, babysitting connecting app.
What's a similar type.
Of service like a door dash or a task rabbit, right, Like you wrote the financial models for task Rabbit that help them be successful, right, and like you're an expert in creating business plans that like help start up scale and get investment money.
Because that's my goal.
So even just there me giving it those specifics about its history will completely change the way that I'm going to engage with this chat boy and the types of answers it's gonna give me, and the type of knowledge is gonna.
Pull out to answer that.
Right.
So you could also say, like you're.
An award winning or world renowned expert in this. You have number of years experience developing business plans at these companies you have built or you built this company, or you scaled this thing, or you you know, created this product or this service. So if I flip it and I move to social media, like you are the leading
expert and creating viral TikTok vid. You have twenty years of experience creating and leading viral campaigns on short form video campaigns on TikTok at like door dash, at uber and at lyft. Right, you literally grew ubers TikTok following from one thousand followers to over ten million, and you've
won several little awards along the way. Right, So you just start to think about the persona if you could create the perfect person that you would talk to about this, even if some of the details are a little bit of BS, that's fine, but you wanted to create that perfect person that you want to talk to in person who's going to help you with that task.
So that's the history.
And then the attitude again is that energy, is that mentality and that vibe that you want the AI to take with you while it's responding to you. And that has two components. The first is the style. Is it helpful? Is it curious? Is it critical? Is it more like evaluative? Is it pensive? Is it playing Devil's advocate? Is it challenging? Is it excited? Is it you know, like if you wanted to turn it into like a venture capitalist to like, you know.
Review your idea.
Is it like a skeptic, right, you want to give it like a style of how it's supposed to be thinking about the answer it gives you back, and then you give it a tone, so like, is it going to respond in professional language?
Is it going to be academic? Is it going to be formal? Informal casual? Humor? Is friendly? Persuasive?
Is it going to be urban? Is it going to be targeted at gen Z or gen alpha? Right, So when you're giving it that attitude, you've already given it the history, so now it knows what knowledge it's pulling from. Now you're just telling it when you give me answers, this is how I want the vibe between us to be. Right. So an example of that would be, like, you are extremely helpful. You love sharing your knowledge to help people
create business plans. You have a deep passion for listening to people's ideas and guiding them step by step to create business plans. And then you could add in some more stuff like you prefer to help people learn how to help themselves. So instead of giving the right answer, you give them questions to help them think and come to the right answer for themselves. So the attitude section is typically a little bit shorter, but again it's just telling it all, right, this is who you are, this
is how you're gonna step to me. And the last part, which is one of the most important, is the actual task.
Right.
So the task is the specific details on what you want the AI to do and how you want it to do it. Now, oftentimes we only focus on the method, right, So we'll be like, Yo, I want you to ask me a question and then provide an answer.
I want you to explain yourself.
I want you to give me positive and negative feedback on this idea, but we don't necessarily get specific enough to tell it the format that we want that in. Right, So if you just tell chat GPT to ask me questions about my idea, it's gonna spit out like twenty questions for you, right, and then it's gonna expect you
to answer all of those. So that's very different than saying ask me one to two brief questions at a time, wait for my response, and keep doing that until you get enough information to help me.
Righte my business plan that's.
Going to have a whole different interaction than if it fits out twenty questions and you don't even know how to answer them, and then it'll mess up the flow of your chat. So you could tell it like, hey, I want this in a list, So, hey, I want a list of five viral TikTok ideas to promote what I'm doing, and I want them to be the strongest. I want them to be funny, right, Or hey, I want this in a table, so it'll literally output it
in what looks like an Excel spreadsheet. So I want a table of ideas, and the first column should be the number of the ideas, so one through five. The second column should be a description of the video, the third column should be an explanation of why you think that video will work, and a fourth column will be what you think the cons are of that, and the fifth column will be what you think the pros are of that. Now answer my question. That's a lot different
than just spitting out a list of ideas. Now you're getting information in a structured way for you to see how it thinks and why it thinks, so you can tweak it as you go. So an example of the task part be like, right now you're a meeting with me, I'm trying to create a startup business a business plan for my startup that will connect like that will connect parents to background check babysitters. First, I'm gonna provide you with ideas that I already have about the business plan.
Then you're gonna ask me one to two brief questions at a time about my idea about this app. Uh, you know that we want to build until you have enough information to help us create a comprehensive business plan that will help us get investment from a VC firm. Along the way, you're gonna provide positive and negative feedback.
Right, So that's gonna completely.
Change versus me saying I want you to write me a business plan about an app that connects uh, you know, parents to background check babysitters. Having that conversation versus conversation that's done in this format, in this chat in the
hat format is gonna be world's difference. And instead of chat GPT feeding you whatever answer it happens to calculate, it's now going to be taking in your actual genius, your actual ideas, and just helping you expand upon them and structure them in a way that lets you do stuff faster.