How to Work Smart
I used to spend hours at work on boring, time-consuming tasks, often turning down invitations to catch-up with colleagues and having distracted client interactions as a result. But ever since I started incorporating GPT4 into my workflows and spent time perfecting my prompt engineering, I’ve transformed boring time consuming tasks into quick, enjoyable ones without compromising on quality and even performing better than ever before, earning me a diagonal promotion at work. This is how I did it…
Hey guys, welcome back to the channel, my name's Shaene and I'm a doctor, supervisor at Oxford University, and manager at a multi-million health tech company.
Today, I’m going to share with you 3 ways in which I use Open AI’s GPT4 to speed up boring tasks that come my way as an ex-doctor working in health-tech.
This has given me back somewhere between 5-10 hours every week, allowing me to spend more time on the things that matter, like building human relationships with my clients and colleagues.
Whilst also giving me the mental space to strategise and solve more complex problems currently out of AI’s reach.
The trick here is to get good, I mean really good at engineering precise prompts that’ll get GPT to generate something that surpasses useable and goes on to excellent.
And that’s exactly what I’ll be helping you with today, by sharing what I do.
Anyway, enough hype, let’s get to the delivery.
The first group of tasks that I put GPT4 to work, I call ‘expansion tasks’.
These refer to tasks where I am required to expand pieces of text from a few lines into functional prose.
Some personal real-world examples include:
Writing one-off emails and re-useable templates to communicate service updates with our clients.
Writing step-by step guides for colleagues and clients.
Writing marketing content such as newsletters, social media posts and video scripts.
Let’s now dive into some of these examples to see how I engineer prompts that get me excellent output.
This is not to say that these are the best technical ways to engineer prompts, but these are the perfect balance between time taken and quality of output in my experience as a relatively switched on writer and academic working in tech.
As a further disclaimer, the details of the examples used are fictional, but they are representative of some real world tasks from my own work as a manager in health-tech and as a founder of a global multi-media education company.
📧 Example 1: E-mails + Guides
Working at a dynamic tech company, we often bring out new features releases, which we have to then communicate to our clients.
Pre-AI, I would sit there figuring out the salient points of the new feature and try to write an email that was formatted well with the right tone.
That would’ve probably taken me between 30-45 minutes to do to completion.
Now I spend no more than 5 minutes on this task.
Let’ take a fictional Apple-based example.
I receive this memo from my manager:
We’re launching a new music streaming service from 1/1/25 and need you to write an email communication to our legacy customers. It’ll have a larger music catalogue than Spotify and even better sound quality than Tidal. Just generally better and best is the message we want to communicate. Throw in some free trial and discount options. Thanks.
This would be my workflow:
I’d open up GPT and type:
Write a service communication email to our customers advising them that Apple will be offering their own music streaming service from 1/1/2025 as part of our ongoing commitment to providing the best user experience. It’ll have a larger music catalogue, better sound quality and be better in every way that’s important to the customer compared to competitor streaming services. There’ll also be a 3 month free trial and a 50% student discount. To sign-up, clients must follow this step by step guide:
I would then copy the separate internal communication I received of the feature update and paste it into GPT.
To sign-up, open settings. Scroll to find services. Then click upcoming. Then apple music. Then sign-up. Enter your Apple ID password to approve. And pay for the subscription using apple pay or other payment method. Then it is complete and you will be notified when Apple music is live and ready for you to use.
Then I click enter and in under 10 seconds, GPT generates this well worded and well formatted email that I can use for my clients, but can also make available to my colleagues saving them even more time!
Subject: Introducing the Future of Music Streaming with Apple Music - Sign Up Now for Exclusive Benefits!
Dear [Customer's Name],
We are thrilled to announce an exciting development that marks a significant step forward in our commitment to delivering the ultimate user experience. Starting January 1, 2025, Apple will be launching its own music streaming service, designed to redefine your listening experience and connect you with the music you love in ways you've never imagined.
Why Apple Music? Apple Music is set to revolutionize the music streaming landscape with an unparalleled music catalog that's larger and more diverse than any other service available today. We are committed to providing superior sound quality that ensures your favorite tracks sound better than ever. But that's not all - Apple Music is designed to excel in every aspect that matters to you:
Extensive Music Catalogue: Discover more artists and genres with the most comprehensive music library available.
Exceptional Sound Quality: Experience your music with crystal-clear sound that makes every note count.
User-Centric Features: Tailored playlists, exclusive releases, and a seamless integration across all your Apple devices.
Exclusive Launch Offer To celebrate this launch, we're offering a 3-month free trial to all our customers, giving you the chance to experience the future of music streaming at no initial cost. Additionally, we're delighted to offer students a 50% discount on their subscriptions, making Apple Music more accessible to everyone.
How to Sign-Up? Getting started with Apple Music is easy! Follow this simple step-by-step guide to sign up:
Open Settings on your Apple device.
Scroll to find Services.
Click on Upcoming.
Select Apple Music.
Click Sign-Up.
Enter your Apple ID password to approve.
Choose Apple Pay or another payment method for the subscription.
Complete the sign-up, and you will be notified when Apple Music is live and ready for you to enjoy.
We're confident that Apple Music will provide you with a listening experience that's unrivaled in its quality, diversity, and innovation. This is just the beginning of our journey to transform how you connect with music.
Don't miss out on this opportunity to be among the first to experience the best in music streaming. Sign up now and get ready to immerse yourself in a world where music comes alive in ways you've never experienced before.
Warm regards,
[Your Company's Name]
Customer Service Team
For assistance with signing up or for more information, please contact our support team at [support email/phone number].
Please ensure to personalize the placeholders ([Customer's Name] and [Your Company's Name]) with the respective names and the support contact details before sending out the email.
It even gives caveats to ensure I don’t just copy, paste and send without updating the personalisation fields.
Now, I may not be entirely happy with this maybe because it’s too long, doesn’t sound enthusiastic enough and I want British English spelling.
No worries!
I can engineer a follow-up prompt to correct this.
This is what I would type:
Make this shorter, more enthusiastic in tone and with British english spelling.
And et voila:
Subject: Exciting News: Apple Music is Coming - Get Ready for a Sonic Revolution!
Dear [Customer's Name],
Fantastic news for music lovers! From 1st January 2025, we're launching Apple Music, a game-changing streaming service that's set to dazzle with the largest music catalogue ever, crystal-clear sound quality, and heaps more. It's simply the best out there - and we're not just saying that!
Why You'll Love Apple Music:
Massive Catalogue: More tunes, more joy!
Top-notch Sound: Hear every note in stunning clarity.
Tailored Just for You: Playlists and features designed to fit your musical taste perfectly.
Special Launch Treats! Jump on board now and enjoy a 3-month free trial. Plus, if you're studying, grab a 50% student discount. Brilliant, isn't it?
Sign Up in a Snap:
Open Settings on your Apple device.
Scroll and tap Services > Upcoming > Apple Music.
Hit Sign-Up, enter your Apple ID password, and choose your payment method (Apple Pay or others).
That's it! You'll be all set to explore Apple Music when it goes live.
We believe Apple Music will transform your music experience like never before. Don't miss out - be one of the first to dive into the future of music streaming.
Cheers,
[Your Company's Name]
Customer Service Team
Need a hand signing up or got questions? Drop us a line at [support email/phone number].
Remember to customise the placeholders ([Customer's Name], [Your Company's Name], and the support contact details) before dispatching the email.
So, for emails and guides, I engineer prompts that:
Provide clear, specific instructions of what the email or guide should achieve. This helps the output to be well formatted into relevant key sections.
Include sufficient context to allow the GPT to elaborate in a targeted direction that’s set by you, rather than just by what it probabilistically expects based on its training-set.
Define the sender and recipient so that the direction of flow and formatting follow.
At least subtly flag anything you want ordered into a progressive list to ensure that GPT creates a numbered and ordered guide that’s clear and concise.
Finally, set the desired tone, spelling and length to save you from manually modifying these.
Don’t worry if the first prompt misses a few of these, you can always refine it with follow-up prompts.
Now, admittedly, this isn’t entirely perfect.
Sometimes the GPT does miss the mark and takes it too far in one direction.
For example, ‘Special Launch Treats’, sounds so enthusiastic that it’s silly.
So, it is really important to read it through and weed out the undesired phrases, which I personally find is quicker and more reliable to do manually rather than asking GPT.
Let’s go on to a different example.
✍️ Example 2: Content Creation
A final example of expansion tasks I start by outsourcing to AI, is creating content.
In my personal use case, this tends to be for marketing material such as newsletters, social media posts and articles, but it can really be any content creation.
When creating content for the company, I’m often given at least a vague direction as well as a few lines per point of what we want to broadcast and up-sell.
In the past, I would take these few lines and painstakingly carry out more research around it, until I had enough context to create a nice prose.
Luckily, those time-sink days are behind me now.
My workflow for content creation, let’s say a newsletter for example, would now involve Slacking key leaders within the company from commercial, operations and product to find out what we’ve achieved holistically, what we’re most proud of and what we think would benefit our partners.
I ask for at least a few lines of context for each point someone suggests.
Let’s stick with the Apple example and say that the executive from product sends me this memo:
We have a new feature called Private Mode which will be available in iPhone 16 that allows only the owner of the phone to see the phone screen and no one else even if they’re standing beside you. This is achieved through improved FaceID, retinal scanning and Apple’s new, patented non-invasive neural interface.
I would then take these lines and feed them into ChatGPT using the following prompt.
Make this sound better for a newsletter going to Apple investors:
Hit enter and this is what we get.
Certainly! Here's a refined version suitable for an investor newsletter:
We are thrilled to introduce an exclusive, cutting-edge feature set to debut on the iPhone 16: Private Mode. This innovative technology ensures that only the phone's owner can view the screen content, offering unprecedented privacy and security. Even if someone is standing right beside the user, the screen remains invisible to them.
This remarkable achievement is made possible through the integration of advanced FaceID and retinal scanning technologies, alongside Apple's revolutionary, patented non-invasive neural interface. These enhancements not only underscore our commitment to user privacy but also highlight Apple's ongoing leadership in technological innovation.
Private Mode is a testament to our dedication to pushing the boundaries of what's possible, ensuring Apple remains at the forefront of the industry and continues to offer unique, value-added features to our users.
This version aims to captivate the interest of investors by emphasizing innovation, privacy, and Apple's leadership in the tech industry.
A beautiful prose, perfectly toned to the target audience.
It’s even identified core values of Apple as a company through subtle hints in the prompt, as well as its pre-trained knowledge of Apple.
I think it’s remarkable how little engineering is actually required sometimes for GPT to function well.
That being said, when engineering a prompt for content creation, I always do these things:
Describe the destination of the content, e.g. Website article, LinkedIn post, E-mail newsletter etc.
This allows GPT to tailor its style of prose expansion to optimally fit the destination, so that it’ll have the highest impact.
Define the target audience.
This allows GPT to be focussed on expanding the right points in the right way to appeal to the target.
Describe some core values.
This makes GPT more deliberate on what it expands and how.
Whilst it functions well even without this, it can helpful to mention some core values of the company or individual, so that GPT has a more definite direction on where to expand, what rhetoric to form and how to link progress to values.
Next, let’s look at ‘explain tasks’.
I’m often tasked with describing and explaining concepts ranging from industries to tools both to clients and colleagues.
Some of these tasks are nuanced and require at present so much additional input from me that it makes more sense to write them myself.
However, even for these nuanced tasks and especially for more basic explain tasks, there’s often a requirement to start with an overview.
In these cases, I can be confident that I can outsource the ask to GPT and it’ll give me an off-the-shelf, useable result.
Let’s take this personal real-world example.
Earlier this year, I was writing an article about the various high value exit options for doctors.
Numerous industries made the cut such as management consulting, health-tech, investment banking, private equity and so on.
Now, I roughly know what these are, but the target audience likely would have heard of these, but not really have a good overview of every industry.
Pre-AI, I would’ve racked my brain, spending more time than was likely worth trying to distil the core points to write a few lines myself.
Or I might’ve Googled each industry and copied the top few lines from the corresponding Wikipedia page.
A positively neanderthal approach in comparison to what I actually do now.
Now, I would engineer the following prompt.
Write a brief overview explaining what management consulting is. It’s for a website article aimed at doctors looking to change careers.
This was the result.
Management consulting is a professional service offered by firms or independent consultants with the goal of helping organizations improve their performance, solve complex problems, and achieve their strategic objectives. For doctors looking to change careers, entering the field of management consulting can be an attractive option, leveraging their unique skills and perspectives.
At its core, management consulting involves working closely with client organizations to analyze existing organizational problems and develop plans for improvement. Consultants may focus on a wide range of areas, including but not limited to, strategy, operations, information technology, human resources, and finance. Through a combination of industry expertise, analytical skills, and the application of frameworks and methodologies, consultants provide recommendations designed to help clients enhance their effectiveness and efficiency.
For medical professionals, the transition into management consulting might involve focusing on healthcare consulting, where their clinical experience and understanding of healthcare systems can be a significant asset. However, doctors can also venture into other areas of consulting, applying their problem-solving skills, ability to work under pressure, and experience in managing complex situations to a variety of challenges in different industries.
The role of a management consultant typically includes conducting research and data analysis to understand the client's challenges, interviewing staff and stakeholders, facilitating workshops, and presenting findings and recommendations to senior management. Success in this field requires strong analytical and interpersonal skills, adaptability, and a keen interest in business and management.
In summary, management consulting offers doctors a pathway to apply their expertise in new contexts, delivering strategic advice and solutions that help organizations navigate change and improve performance. This career change can be rewarding and intellectually stimulating, providing opportunities to impact a wide range of industries beyond healthcare.
It’s good, but it’s far too long for the article I’m writing and contains Americanisms that I’m not about.
So, I engineered this following prompt:
Make this shorter and change to British English Spelling.
Oh and, Sam Altman, if you’re watching this, please add an option to choose core spelling.
Anyway, after this prompt, this is what I get:
Management consultancy involves advising organisations on how to enhance performance, address complex issues, and achieve strategic goals. For doctors seeking a career change, this field offers an opportunity to utilise their unique skills and insights.
Consultants collaborate closely with clients across areas such as strategy, operations, IT, HR, and finance, employing industry knowledge and analytical skills to propose improvements. Doctors might find healthcare consultancy particularly appealing, although their problem-solving abilities and experience in high-pressure environments equip them for challenges across various sectors.
The role requires research, data analysis, stakeholder interviews, and presenting recommendations to management. Success in consultancy demands strong analytical abilities, excellent interpersonal skills, and a keen interest in business and management.
In essence, management consultancy provides a pathway for doctors to apply their expertise in new settings, offering strategic advice to organisations seeking to navigate change and enhance their performance, making it a rewarding and intellectually engaging career shift.
This is much more useable as an overview at the beginning of the article and it’s helpfully pre-flavoured towards doctors.
That of course is by no accident or luck, but through deliberate engineering.
Which brings me nicely to my prompt engineering rules for explain tasks:
Define the scope.
This enables the GPT to understand the purpose of the text it’s producing, allowing it to achieve its function without overstepping or under-delivering.
Define the target audience.
This allow GPT to be focused on what to elaborate on and what to highlight to catch the attention of the audience through targeted relevance.
Define the destination.
This enables the GPT to stylise the text to fit the destination. For example, if I asked for this to be changed to a style of a LinkedIn post, here’s what I would’ve got.
Change this into the style of a LinkedIn post.
🌟 Exciting Career Pivot Alert for Doctors! 🌟
Are you a medical professional pondering a dynamic shift in your career path? Look no further than the vibrant world of management consultancy! 🚀
This field is not just about advising; it's about transforming organisations, solving intricate puzzles, and steering strategic successes. And guess what? Your unique blend of skills and experiences as a doctor positions you perfectly for this leap. Whether it's healthcare consultancy or venturing into new industries, your problem-solving prowess, resilience under pressure, and adeptness at navigating complex scenarios are invaluable assets. 🏥➡️🏢
Embark on a journey where research meets strategy, data analysis intertwines with stakeholder engagement, and your recommendations ignite organisational transformations. 📊💡
Why stick to the status quo when you can challenge it, shape it, and lead change across diverse sectors? Management consultancy isn't just a career—it's a calling for those eager to make a substantial impact beyond the confines of healthcare.
Dive in, make your mark, and redefine what's possible. The world of consultancy awaits. Are you ready to take the plunge? 🌊
#CareerChange #DoctorsToConsultants #ManagementConsultancy #HealthcareConsulting #StrategicImpact
It’s completely transformed in style, tone and appearance to fit what’s typical for LinkedIn complete with emojis and relevant hashtags.
Gone are the days of manually re-purposing content, SEO optimisation and hashtag search.
Now, on to the final way I personally use AI to speed up time-consuming tasks, summarisation.
Frequently, I get handed extremely long articles ranging from guidelines to funding policy and am asked to summarise and draw out the key points.
In some cases, I’m asked to go a step further and gather more information on the points that matter most or write my own take on the article.
To tell you the truth, as an academic, this is something I’ve been doing for over a decade and so you would expect that I’m a seasoned pro, who can tackle this task in minutes.
But, to tell you the truth, this is certainly the most painful and time-consuming of all the tasks, especially when an article doesn’t come with a ‘summary’ or ‘key points’ section.
In the past, you would’ve found me sitting there, reading often very dry articles, trying to engage my brain to sieve through the fluff and find the pertinent points.
Many laborious hours later, I would eventually succeed.
However, my current workflow has turned these laborious hours into enjoyable minutes.
For these ‘summarise tasks’, I now start by asking my AI colleague GPT4 to run the first pass of the long-form article and ask it to summarise the key points.
This is the prompt I engineer:
Summarise this article and extract the key points.
This is what GPT gives me:
Here's a concise summary of the key points from the guidance for integrated care boards and virtual ward providers:
1. Purpose and Development: The guidance is designed to identify crucial diagnostics for effective virtual wards, drawing on expertise from various medical specialties including acute medicine, frailty, and heart failure. It highlights best practices but is not a comprehensive technical guide.
2. Diagnostic Access and Importance: Diagnostics are essential for high-quality, personalized care in virtual wards. Access needs vary based on patient specifics and their referral source, such as inpatient care or emergency departments. Timely access to diagnostic tests and results is crucial for all virtual wards.
3. Governance and Standard Operating Procedures: Strong governance and clear procedures are mandatory for accessing diagnostics. These should include everything from test booking to the timely retrieval of results. Virtual wards must have robust standard operating procedures.
4. Tests and Measures: The document lists priority diagnostics and measures such as temperature, pulse, and blood pressure, which may be aided by technological devices. It also highlights the importance of assessing acute deterioration and frailty. Portable point-of-care tests (PoCTs) are emphasized for enhancing care efficiency.
5. Pathology and Laboratory Tests: Access to pathology services and laboratory analysis is crucial. The guidance suggests coordinating with pathology networks to ensure timely analysis and results delivery.
6. Imaging and Other Diagnostics: Key imaging tests include CT scans, X-rays, and MRIs. Virtual wards should utilize both fixed and portable diagnostic equipment, with some tests potentially being conducted in patient homes or facilitated through partnerships with other care settings.
7. Transport and Logistics: Efficient transport systems are necessary to ensure patients can access diagnostics in various settings without unnecessary hospital admissions. Partnerships with transport services and community organizations can aid in providing timely access.
8. Clinical Safety and Data Governance: Safety protocols are paramount, including the management of clinical risks and adherence to data protection standards. All diagnostic activities should integrate smoothly with other healthcare services the patient might be accessing.
9. Case Studies: Examples from specific NHS trusts illustrate the practical application of these guidelines in real-world settings, showcasing the integration of virtual and in-person care modalities to enhance patient management.
The guidance ultimately stresses the integration of diagnostics into virtual wards to improve care delivery, focusing on personalized patient management and streamlined operational procedures.
Then I read this short summary in its entirety, highlighting the points that are most relevant for my overall goal.
Then once I’ve honed in on the most relevant points, I go back to the original article and read just those sections to help me flesh out the summary provided by my GPT4 friend.
I sometime even recruit GPT4 once more to help me flesh things out, but having read the source myself, I act as a moderator to ensure that GPT4 isn’t fleshing things with fiction.
For example, I asked it to expand on the point on pathology integration and point of care testing.
This is what GPT gave me:
Certainly! The section on pathology and point-of-care testing (PoCT) in the guidance for virtual wards covers several key areas that are crucial for the efficient operation and clinical effectiveness of virtual wards. Here's a detailed expansion on this topic:
Pathology Services Integration
Access to Pathology Laboratories: Virtual wards need seamless access to pathology laboratories that can provide timely testing and results. This involves coordinating with a network of laboratories to handle samples collected in various care settings, including patients' homes.
Sample Transportation: The logistics of transporting samples from the patient's home to the laboratory are crucial. Virtual wards must establish reliable methods to ensure samples are transported safely and quickly to avoid delays in diagnosis and treatment.
Turnaround Times: Agreements on turnaround times for test analysis and result reporting are essential. These should be negotiated with pathology services to align with the clinical urgency of patient needs. Prompt access to results is vital for effective treatment planning and monitoring.
Point of Care Testing (PoCT)
Selection of Tests: PoCT devices allow for immediate results and are selected based on the common conditions managed within virtual wards. Tests commonly included are for creatinine and eGFR, urea and electrolytes, haemoglobin and haematocrit levels, C-reactive protein, blood glucose, ketones, venous blood gas analysis, NT-proBNP, D-dimer, INR, lactate, and complete blood count.
Clinical Decision-Making: PoCT enhances clinical decision-making by providing rapid diagnostics that can influence immediate treatment choices. This is particularly useful in managing chronic conditions or acute episodes without the need for hospital admission.
Device Selection and Management: Virtual wards must choose appropriate PoCT devices that can be reliably used in a non-clinical setting. This includes ensuring the devices are easy to operate, maintain, and calibrate. Regular training and quality assurance checks are necessary to maintain device accuracy and reliability.
Governance and Procedures: Strong governance frameworks are required to manage the use of PoCT. This includes setting up standard operating procedures for when and how tests are conducted, interpreting results, and integrating findings into patient care plans.
Improving Care Efficiency: PoCT can reduce the need for multiple patient visits and expedite the initiation of treatment. By providing near-instant results, these devices can also help conserve healthcare resources and improve patient outcomes by allowing for quicker adjustments to treatment protocols.
Overall Impact on Virtual Wards
The integration of pathology services and PoCT into virtual wards represents a significant advancement in providing comprehensive care remotely. It allows healthcare providers to deliver a high level of care with quick adjustments based on real-time data, closely mirroring the responsiveness of in-hospital care. Additionally, the use of PoCT enhances patient involvement in their care, as it facilitates immediate discussions about treatment options based on the results obtained during the visit.
In summary, the guidance emphasizes the importance of integrating effective pathology and PoCT practices within virtual wards to ensure timely, efficient, and patient-centered care, enhancing both the quality and the continuity of care provided to patients in a virtual setting.
Let’s now look at some caveats to everything I’ve spoken about, ending with how I see the relationship between man and AI in the workplace.
First caveat to mention here is that my company has an enterprise subscription to GPT4 from OpenAI meaning that all of our queries and responses are locked internally and is not fed back to OpenAI to contribute to its training.
This allows our commercially sensitive information to remain protected.
So take this into consideration before you crack on and start using ChatGPT for work and get into trouble.
Next, GPT can hallucinate, meaning that it’s capable of generating things that sound like facts and real information, but is pure fiction.
If you ever ask GPT to carry out a task that requires it to source its own facts, such as ‘explanation’ or ‘information-gathering’ tasks, it’s a good idea to ask it to stay basic, because the details may include fictional information, which could be quite embarrassing when it’s picked up.
This is why I don’t use GPT for more complex, high-stakes ‘information gathering’ tasks.
Let’s say I’m on shift working as a doctor and a patient comes in with a heart attack.
I wouldn’t be rushing to GPT and asking ‘what’s the most up to date management for myocardial infarction in the UK?’
Why?
Because the ask in complex and nuanced.
And most importantly, the stakes here is someone’s life.
Far far too high to risk using information that could be hallucinated.
Instead, I open up hospital guidelines or the EPR and find the power-plan for myocardial infarction, use my decade of medical knowledge and clinical experience to choose the best management plan for my patient.
So, yes ChatGPT speeds up boring time-consuming tasks, but it’s not quite there to speed up high-stakes, nuanced tasks faced by some professionals.
Finally, the biggest caveat is you and I.
As we have seen, we can create powerful content to inform, explain and summarise basic to even complex ideas, with minimal human input.
Now, this has created lots of existential worry.
But the way I see it, this is where we have the opportunity to really thrive.
What GPT produces is a good enough, off-the-shelf result.
The value, we as experienced humans provide, is in knowing what is good output, what is bad output, what is missing and what doesn’t need to be there.
Then using this information to modify the content to perfectly fit the purpose, tone and audience of the content.
Here’s an example.
My first draft of the next line in this script was this:
So, no I don’t use AI to replace my skills at work, I instead use it to give me content that’s at a stage where I can use my true skills to create an output that’s even better than what I alone or what AI alone could create. In essence, a perfect synergy.
I then asked GPT4 to make it sound better, which it did:
Certainly! Here's a refined version for your YouTube video script:
"So, do I rely on AI to take over my role at work? Absolutely not. Instead, I harness its capabilities to generate preliminary content, setting the stage for my genuine expertise to shine. By doing so, I elevate the output to a level neither I, nor AI, could achieve independently. It's about creating a perfect synergy, where my skills and artificial intelligence complement each other, leading to unparalleled results."
There’s elements I like about it and elements I don’t.
For example, the general tone seems a bit more formal than my style.
So I asked it to make it more relaxed using this prompt.
Make this less formal.
And this is what it gave me:
Sure thing! Here’s a more relaxed version for your YouTube script:
"So, do I let AI do my job? Nope. What I do is team up with it. AI gets the ball rolling, giving me something to work with. Then, I jump in with my real skills, spicing things up to make the final outcome way cooler than what either of us could've done on our own. It's like the ultimate team-up, where my expertise and AI's smarts come together for some seriously awesome results."
It’s closer-ish to my tone, but actually some elements have been taken too far towards cool and breezy.
So for the final script, I merged all 3 versions to make this:
So, no I don’t use AI to replace my skills at work.
Instead, I harness its capabilities to get the ball rolling, setting the stage for my genuine expertise to shine.
Doing this, elevates the output to a level neither I, nor AI, could have achieved independently.
In essence, a perfect synergy.
Doesn’t get more real than this to prove my point.
Our value comes in being humans trying to communicate with other humans.
If you have any other suggestions for engineering prompts that I might’ve missed or got wrong, let me know in the comments.
I’d love to refine my practice along with everyone else watching.
And finally, if you’d like to find out more about my day to day at work, then you might like to read this article and watch the video below.
But that’s it from me for today, thanks so much for watching and I’ll see you again next time.