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PLUS: Paul Graham on Character, Ultimate ChatGPT Prompting Guide
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This week we’re covering:
X-Box ad at Las Vegas Sphere
Paul Graham on Character
Don’t Ask for Advice
Ultimate ChatGPT Prompting Guide
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Here are the 4 gems from the week 💎
💡 X-Box ad at Las Vegas Sphere
X-Box team causally dropping $450,000 to run this Las Vegas Sphere ad
— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan)
2:52 PM • Oct 21, 2023
This ad placement was meant for XBOX. The sphere is perfect.
Ballpark impressions are supposed to be >300k physically in Las Vegas and >5m online.
💡 Paul Graham on Character
The test of character is how you treat the powerless.
— Paul Graham (@paulg)
8:49 AM • Oct 21, 2023
💡 Don’t Ask for Advice
If you’re asking for advice, you’re not going to make it
Making it requires making it, not asking someone else how to make it
Making it requires learning how to not make it ten thousand different ways, leaving one, which isn’t possible to teach in any practical way nor… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Sahil Lavingia (@shl)
8:41 PM • Oct 20, 2023
I don’t fully agree with the first line. It also depends on your opinion of “make it”.
But I do see way too many people ask for advice before MVP. And that’s just “feeling productive” not actually “being productive”.
On the flip side, if you’re seeing yourself asking for advice often… try to switch it up.
See if you can come up with something and ask for feedback instead.
💡 Ultimate ChatGPT Prompting Guide
Here's the ChatGPT Ultimate Prompting Guide
Important elements to include:
1. Tone
2. Format
3. Objective
4. Context
5. Examples(Source: Reddit)
— Aadit Sheth (@aaditsh)
2:20 PM • Oct 18, 2023
Especially if you’re using ChatGPT for content marketing, specify tone, format, objective, context, and give examples.
These 5 things alone will take your prompts and results from 0/100 to 50/100.
PS. If you’re interested in this AI stuff, you should sign up for our other newsletter - Prompts Daily. It has 100,000+ readers (Executives, VCs, and engineers). Sign up with one click.
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