So, let's assume there's a writing competition
and you put two people in a room: both have ChatGPT. One of them has the tips from this video,
the other one doesn't. The one with these tips would win every single time. And it wouldn't even
be close. Because it's been two months since I have been collecting tips and tricks on ChatGPT
and other AI apps on a daily basis. And, in this video, I'm gonna reveal to you five more
secrets to writing with ChatGPT. We're gonna talk about customizing your style, remixing other
people's styles, learning and talking to ChatGPT in an advanced manner. And in the end, I'll
show you how to go beyond asking me just one killer prompt. So, let's start exploring
secret number one: Customizing ChatGPT's output to match your very own style. And wait
a minute: I know you might have heard of this, but I have an extra prompt coming here in a second
that you might not have heard about yet. So, if you're not familiar, a popular technique
with ChatGPT is taking this line. By the way, this is from a page in the introduction of my
ebook that teaches you how to use ChatGPT to mimic your own style. If we simply copy-paste
this formula, we can place our own writing at the end of this. And last text for style and
tone of voice, apply that exact style and tone of voice to all of your future responses. So, this
is how you would begin to teach it your style. And what I'll do now is open up one of these emails
that I wrote by myself and simply post it at the bottom of this prompt. Once you hit enter, ChatGPT
comes back with analysis of your style. "The style is informal and personal with a conversational
tone. The tone of voice is empathetic, relatable, and motivational. Understood. I'll respond using
that style with that tone of voice, and now any other writing request I have will come back in
that style." But wait, I got more – and now every other writing request that I make will be written
in that exact style. So, if I say:"Write me a 100-word email about the importance of a company
trip to the zoo". Look: it's informal, personal, conversational, and the tone of voice is relatable
– perfect! So, one side note here is that this works best if you feed it the type of text that
it's going to output. Makes sense, right? If you give it a dissertation and ask for an email,
it's not going to perfectly match the styles. So, what I would recommend
is going up here and actually copying this very first prompt, storing it in some sort
of note, and every time you want ChatGPT to write an email in your style, you simply start with
this prompt. And then continue by asking it for what you need. And it's going to maintain your
consistent style. All it takes is one good email that is really representative of you. And you
can keep applying the template in the future. But here's a bonus tip: let's say I take the
second prompt: open up a new conversation, and say: "In future responses, also occasionally, once every few sentences, apply the style of Borat." And he comes back and says: "Understood. I will now occasionally include a touch of humor
in the style of Borat in my future responses while maintaining a conversational tone." And with
little add-ons like this, you can keep refining the style that will deliver the text to you.
So, let's go back and test it with the email that we tried generating before. And look at that
– it actually ignored the Borat request. And this happens sometimes – look, it’s not perfect; you
still have to keep your eyes open and keep going. So, all I'll do here is follow up with: "What about
the board style request I made. Try again." And it does it. And although it's not perfect as it
uses his style in almost every single sentence. By pushing it into the direction of using it in every
third, it's not all Borat anymore. Obviously, this is a ridiculous example; you could do this
with every single writer in their world and remix your own writing with his type of style. Okay, so
next up I'm going to show you how to improve your writing skill, not just the output by using ChatGPT.
So, there's really three levels to using ChatGPT right? You have the people that simply
copy paste, then you have the people like copy paste and use it as a starting point and start
remixing it with their own thoughts, ideas. And that is probably the best way to use it. But,
I want to introduce a third way, and that is going beyond level 2, which is really good already. It's
using ChatGPT as a starting point, then remixing and adapting it. Plus you open up a new ChatGPT
window to gain some experiences to further remix ChatGPT. And this does take more time and effort
but it actually builds your skill of writing. And creates better outputs over the long term. So,
let me show you two formulas that you can apply to use it on this third and most advanced level:
"How can I use [insert style of writing] to create successful [insert output]?" So, for example,
let's do copywriting and outreach emails. And by asking it this educational type question
we can build our knowledge before we go in and use some other formulas to actually generate the
outreach emails. In other words, you're doing a crash course on writing like this. It gives you
some steps: "personalize the emails, clearly state the purpose and benefits in the subject line, make
a clear call to action, keep the email concise, and proofread and test the email before sending
it to a larger audience." Incredible advice for anybody entering a new arena! It doesn't have to
be copywriting and outreach emails, because now I know what to look for. But that's not it; I have
another formula here that you can use to expand your knowledge of pretty much any domain. So, it
goes: "Give me examples of popular" and then type of text as we're talking about writing. So I'll
just replace "type of text" with "outreach emails" again. And in like a minute I learned about
best practices when writing outreach emails, plus it gave me some of the main categories.
Honestly, with maybe the exception of a seasoned professional sitting right next to you, there's
no faster way to learning about a new subject than asking these two simple questions. And now
you're ready to go ahead and make it write your outreach email, for example. But you already have
a framework that you can use to judge the output and get better results. Okay, so let's move on
to the next trick here. And that is that ChatGPT actually has a built-in capability to act like
a conversational partner. Now, why would this be useful in writing? Well, let's have a look.
If you go to my website, you might be aware that I have a weekly newsletter where I share a new
ChatGPT prompts, AI apps, and much more. And I'll link this below. But I set up an archive of all
the newsletters, so for free you can just go on here and if we open up "week force newsletter" my
prompt of the week was this "interview simulator", and we can use that for writing too, if we
customize it a little bit. So, we'll just go ahead and say: "simulate a high-level interview for a
chief copywriter, by asking questions as if you're a potential employer. In this scenario, I'm taking
the role of the employee, and you ask increasingly hard questions to screen my competence, but only
after I respond. Start by introducing yourself." And by the way I'll put all
this into the video's description, so if you go below you can just copy-paste and test everything
that I introduced inside of this video. And look, by the way, chief copywriter doesn't have to
be a real position; ChatGPT is greater than foreign context. So it knows what you mean if you
use expressive words like chief. And now you can start having a conversation here, and let's
just say you're fully honest with it and you say "honestly I have not done much copywriting in the
past, but I would love to learn". And look, during the third response you might already realize why I
recommend you do this when approaching new topics. This framework of talking to somebody that
is trying to hire you for a position that maybe you have no business in taking. But you're
trying to accomplish the task. In this example, you're trying to become a better copywriter;
this ChatGPT job interviewer starts bringing up some of the right questions that you can then
ask. And what I mean by that is these little snippets like "can you discuss how you stay
current with industry trends and techniques for copywriting?" Whoa, that's a fantastic
question! You can just go ahead and ask ChatGPT. And guess what? Now I take this output,
which is fantastic advice by the way, and I send it back as an interview response. And
remember, we set this up so the interviewer asks increasingly hard questions. So what I can
do here again is take his hard question and input this into the other thread on ChatGPT.
Now you can already see where this is going, right? I'm using ChatGPT to talk to itself
to generate increasingly useful responses. And all of this is invaluable information. And as
you can see, we can just keep going here and we'll just keep getting better and harder questions on
our topic and better and more detailed responses to learn from. And I'm so excited about this
one because the combination of hard questions, and ChatGPT answering them is one of the best ways
I discovered to use ChatGPT to learn new skills - like any category of writing. But that's not all,
wait, I have two more secrets here. So, look, this next one is super short and simple. So, as
we discussed in the last video, you can go ahead and say:"in the style of" let's just use good old
board again. 'Waddle around all day is so funny." Look at that: "very admirable. Like Boris and
fight against covid" Oh boy, look at some of this output: "Penguins, best birds!" But what
I want to show you here is you can go a step further than simply saying, "in the style of
Borat", by adding: "with a PhD in zoology" So now, it's not just gonna be Borat, but it's
gonna be bored with a PhD in zoology. And look, I like these ridiculous examples, because when it
works with Borat, where it has a very limited data set it learned from. It's going to work with every
writer, where it consumes multiple volumes of their work to analyze their style. And look, these
results are great: "their unique adaptations make them perfectly suited for aquatic environments."
And given it's not perfect. As I said, Borat is one of those examples, where it just doesn't have
enough data to do it perfectly. But if you look at the last two sentences, it really sounds like
Borat completed his PhD in zoology: "Their social behavior and huddling tactics conserve heat in
their chilly habitats. Ah yes, penguin's truly impressive creatures." So yes, please go ahead
and try it with someone meaningful, and you'll be rewarded with some incredible results. Okay,
time for my last ChatGPT writing secret here. But before we do that, I want to give you a bonus
tip. Actually, 100 bonus tips! If you haven't done so yet, you can go to this URL and sign up for
free to my weekly newsletter. And get this mini ebook that has over 100 prompts for you to try out
right away. That's 34 pages packed with practical examples like the ones we discussed in this
very video. And it's completely free. And then, if you enjoy the mini ebook and you want even more
prompts, you can go ahead and buy my full ebook, which is simply put four times the content of this
mini version. Plus, I have a German version now too. And if you want to buy it on Amazon, because
that's your thing, you can do that too now, But now let's talk about my last tip, and that is:
use good follow-up prompts. So, as you can see, the more advanced we get with our prompting, the
longer the conversation goes. And that's really the secret to being good with ChatGPT: you have to
be able to how to interface with it, how to talk to it, in order to get more precise and relevant
results to you. So, let's just rerun the essay about penguins, in the style of Bukowski, with
a PhD in zoology. And I'm gonna give you free, super-useful follow-up prompts. So, the first
one would connect to the last thing we discussed, and that is changing the style after effect.
So, by saying:"'now, in the style of Dostoyevski" we get the same text in a different style.
But this one you might have figured out by your own. I just wanted to illustrate what
a follow-up prompt is. Let me give you a super-useful one that I use all the time: two
words: "try again". Because, as you might know, ChatGPT writes this text by predicting the next
token, which is something in between a letter and a word. What that means in practice is that
every output is different, as it's not predicting the entire text, but it's simply going token
by token. So, by hitting it with "try again", you're going to get different outputs every single
time you do that. Unless it's overloaded and super slow again, I guess. And there you go, that works
every time. But I have one more follow-up prompt here that you need to know of. So, when you ask
ChatGPT for a long text, it used to get stuck, but now it tells you that "thousand words is
simply too long", but what you can do is say: "write me the first 500 words of a 1,000 word
essay". And with this little workaround, it does it. And then, as my final follow-up prompt,
you just tell it: "keep going", and it will keep expanding on its last thoughts. Not bad, right?
Not bad, not bad. So, if you learned anything new, hit that like button, get the free ebook and the
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than all the tricks that we just went through!
