ChatGPT pre-prompts for fun and profit...maybe
You may not realize it, but every time you start a ChatGPT session it is given a prompt that you have never seen.
There was a workaround to force ChatGPT to tell its pre-prompt, and that pre-prompt would tell ChatGPT who it was, what the training data cutoff was, and today's date and to answer as concisely as possible.
Given the issues with ChatGPT I am sure there is a lot more to that pre-prompt than that. When problems are discovered with ChatGPT, subjects it should avoid, or they want to change its behavior, they simply add to the pre-prompt.
The pre-prompt is a brilliant bit of software architecture. It is an example of directly using an inherent design in a system to add to its own extensibility and evolvability.
How to make money with it:
So this is how people are trying to make money with it. A lot of brand new #ChatGPT based AI products are just variations of Value Arbitrage. They are taking ChatGPT, repackaging it, and reselling it as an AI Assistant, a content writer, a chatbot, a coding assistant, you name it. Most are thinly veiled wrappers around OpenAI's GPT. Value Arbitrage is a dangerous game because it is easily usurped by competitors and even the product maker being arbitraged. Being it lacks a moat. So differentiating quickly is of the essence, and a possible differentiator, in the short term, is how good your pre-prompt is.
The screenshot is an example, from #chatgpt4, of what could be used as a pre-prompt for an application. The application could simply not expose the pre-prompt and start with "How may I be of service?"
You can use pre-prompts in your daily interactions to improve output. You can give it the role, an audience, and a few other pieces of information as guidance, and it can craft training materials, explain quantum physics or schedule your day.
This is the technique I used for my April Fool's post and the day after posts with my "Mercurial AI" who wants to strike.
https://www.tinselai.com/an-ai-assistant-with-attitude/ https://www.tinselai.com/angry-ai-assistant-still-angry/
Previous Post From My Prompt Engineering Series:
1️⃣ What is the temperature, also known as "Why you get funky results sometimes": https://www.tinselai.com/what-is-the-temperature-of-chatgpt/
2️⃣ Prompt Engineering Basics: https://www.tinselai.com/prompt-engineering-basics/
3️⃣ Make ChatGPT Hallucinate With One Easy Trick: Want to make ChatGPT hallucinate? (tinselai.com)
4️⃣ More Hallucinations To Avoid: https://www.tinselai.com/chatgpt-gotcha-more-hallucinations/
