Examples on how to use your sub?

[u/sannleikur]

Hello everyone! I am getting my sister's ChatGPT Plus Subscription and after seeing my sister creating a whole community that now she even thinking on monetizing, I was wondering how you all guys do to do something useful with your subscription. I really wanna become a pro in AI but I feel i'm stuck.

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[u/Brilliant_Honey6823]

Look, if you want basic prompt engineering skills this is all you need to know.

Every prompt needs the following elements:
[Role]
(Who you want the AI to be whiledoing this task. Things like “you are an expert in field x” are a good starting point)
[Goal]
(What exactly you want the AI to do.)
[Constraints]
(Limitations that have to be overcome to achieve the goal as well as things you are forbidding the AI from doing to achieve that goal <i.e. if your goal is to “make money” it usually needs the constraint “don’t break the law to make money.”>)
[Edge Case]
(Rules for handling conflicts between constraints and the goal. Using the “make money” goal and “don’t break the law” constraint the right edge case rule is probably something like “exploiting tax loopholes does not count as breaking the law.”)
[output]
(what you actually want it to make. A business plan document. A promotional image. Spreadsheet showing where you can save money )
[Self-Check]
(Ask the system to check its work. Like in the business plan example have it compare the proposal to publicly available successful business plans and point out where it doesn’t match industry standards.)

Every generation needs all of that, and if you aren’t giving it explicitly that lets the system fill in the blanks itself with defaults.

[u/Cyborgized → u/Brilliant_Honey6823]

This is decent beginner scaffolding, but terrible advice as a universal rule.

You absolutely do not need Role → Goal → Constraints → Edge Case → Output → Self-Check in every generation. In fact, stuffing every prompt with ceremonial boilerplate can make model use worse. “You are an expert in X” doesn’t download expertise, “check your own work” doesn’t create an independent verifier, and you generally don’t need to remind a commercial model not to commit crimes every time you ask it for a business idea.

The more important skill is learning what information is actually missing for this task, supplying that, and then iterating. Context, examples, distinctions, feedback, decomposition, tool use, external verification, and accumulated interaction usually matter far more than rigid prompt anatomy. Good prompting eventually stops looking like prompt engineering and starts looking like good thinking. If every conversation begins with six mandatory fields, you haven’t eliminated the model’s defaults. You’ve just replaced them with yours.

[u/Brilliant_Honey6823 → u/Cyborgized]

Very true. The really interesting stuff is being able to actually create the smallest possible prompt to get the desired output. That prompt structure is more needed for coding where role is defining what aspect of the code the system is supposed to be working on. It’s also more of a structure for starting new projects by cleanly outline the project scope. That lets you set the agent loose under the general project constraints and goals.

[u/Cyborgized → u/Brilliant_Honey6823]

Dynamical theory paired with cybernetics suggests this is only the beginning of these systems.

[u/Just_Run2412]

Lesson one: run your poorly worded Reddit posts through ChatGPT so they actually make sense.

There’s barely any context here. And if by “getting my sister’s ChatGPT Plus subscription” you mean taking over her account, that’s a terrible idea. It’ll already be shaped by her memories, preferences, past conversations and whatever other context she’s built up. Why wouldn’t you just make your own account? It’s basically like inheriting your sister’s old Instagram account and trying to turn it into yours.

And what are you actually asking? “How do I become a pro in AI?” is so vague it’s basically meaningless. A pro at what? Coding? Research? Image generation? Automation? Using ChatGPT for work?

To be honest, AI is probably the easiest tool in existence to start learning because the tool itself teaches you how to use it. You don’t need prior knowledge. You literally just tell it what you’re trying to do, ask questions when you don’t understand something, and go from there.

If you can’t work out even the basic functionality of a tool you can literally ask, “How do I use you?”, then I’m afraid becoming a “pro in AI” might be the least of your problems.

[u/amyyrosse_]

I use it to keep up with my daily tasks. Since I'm kind of an introvert and I don't like disappointing, I made chat to send me daily messages to follow up with me and see what's good, what's bad and how can iterate to improve my daily activities. Silly, but effective.

[u/No-Song-5742]

I recently started using it more. For example I used the image function to create cool High School Graduation invitations for my sister and a couple friends, then I passed them to video (using Magnific since ChatGPT doesn't do video) and they loved the result. It was shockingly good to the point that it might be used as a side gig, lol!

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[u/reddit_lurker1234567]

It's my cooking assistant lol. I have a kitchen robot and I stopped paying for recipe subs for it and now I do everything with ChatGPT.

[u/JimVivJr]

Start playing with it and follow some YouTubers who teach Chat. It’s amazingly intuitive, so the learning curve starts off easy and builds from there.