The quality of ChatGPT’s responses is directly related to the quality of your prompt. In other words, if you want to get the best results from ChatGPT, you have to work on your prompts.
In this blog post, we’ll show you 5 key prompting strategies to get ChatGPT responses that match your expectations as closely as possible. The same example, “Creating a learning plan to improve public speaking skills”, will be used throughout our illustration to keep our discussion coherent.
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1. Be Clear and Specific
Firstly, be clear and specific. This helps ChatGPT understand exactly what you need and avoid misunderstandings.
Let’s take a look at a bad prompt:
"Help me with public speaking."
This prompt is too vague and doesn’t provide enough information for ChatGPT to understand your requirements. “What exactly do you want?” ChatGPT will have no idea.
Compare it with a clear and specific prompt to see if this improves the quality of ChatGPT’s responses:
"Create a weekly learning plan to improve my public speaking skills over the next month."
This prompt clearly states the purpose and what you’re looking for, and it is also specific about the timeframe. This makes it easier for ChatGPT to generate a helpful plan.
2. Provide Context
Next, provide context. Provide the necessary background information to help ChatGPT understand the unique situation, so that its outputs are relevant to you and some run-of-the-mill responses.
Take the same bad prompt as an example again. “Help me improve my public speaking” lacks context and you can expect generic responses from ChatGPT with it.
If you add information like:
"I'm a marketing manager who frequently presents to large audiences. Create a learning plan to improve my public speaking skills."
Do you see the difference? This prompt provides ChatGPT with the necessary background to tailor its response to your specific needs.
The more context you give, the better ChatGPT can assist you.
3. Ask Open-Ended Questions
Now, ask open-ended questions. Open-ended questions encourage comprehensive answers from ChatGPT.

For instance, if you ask ChatGPT: “Can you help me with cat training?” This is a close-ended, yes-or-no question. It might restrict the scope of ChatGPT’s answers and does not yield the extensive response you need.
Compare it with an open-ended question like:
"What are some effective strategies for improving my cat's ability to understand basic commands?"
This encourages ChatGPT to provide a more thorough and potentially well-rounded response. And Open-ended questions lead to more valuable insights from ChatGPT too.
4. Use Sequential Prompts
Do you know that you don’t need to squeeze all the information into one single prompt, especially if your task is complex? You can instead break down your complex tasks into smaller, manageable steps to get more accurate and detailed response from ChatGPT.
This is what we mean by “using sequential prompts”.
To illustrate, if you string up all the “good prompts” we have so far into a single prompt, you will see ChatGPT jumbles up the answers for your varying questions into a long, confusing response.
Why not do it step-by-step, sequentially sending the prompts one after another. This is a more systematic way of prompting, and you can ensure each part of the task is thoroughly addressed.
5. Incorporate Examples
Finally, an optional but exceptionally helpful step: incorporate examples. Providing examples clarifies your expectations and guides ChatGPT towards the kind of response you are looking for.
For instance, if you want ChatGPT to create a learning plan, you can show it an example plan. Say,
"Here's an example of a learning plan I found online. Can you create a similar plan focused on improving public speaking skills?"
Examples help align ChatGPT’s output with your expectations, because it gives ChatGPT a clear reference point.
Now you might think, “Why stop at just one example?” That’s right! You can provide more than one example of course. Anything that helps clarify your requirements works.


Try these tips for your next ChatGPT prompt and let us know your results in the comments.
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