Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to another edition of The Curious Case. We have a couple of announcements today:

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Alright, getting back to business now. Today we have:

• AI news of the day

• ChatGPT prompt of the day (plus a brief explainer)

So, let’s get started.

AI news of the day

Romanian PM hires world’s first AI-powered political adviser

In a first, Romania has unveiled an AI-powered political adviser named “Ion” to help the PM know about fellow Romanian’s proposals and wishes. Ion’s main task will be to scan popular social medias and share the results with the government.

Some quick questions that come to mind:

• How will these proposals be prioritized?

• Will the results be made public for transparency?

• What if some bad actors try to game the AI by flooding it with misinformation?

In conclusion, it does look like a step in the right direction but execution will be the key, more than the intention.

Read the full story here

ChatGPT Prompt of the day (plus a brief explainer)

Prompt Engineering 101 👨🏽‍🏫

Prompt Engineering: the process of designing and creating prompts, or input data, for AI models to train them to perform specific tasks.

The thing to keep in mind while using ChatGPT is - Generic prompts will give generic answers.

For example:

Write a 30 day strategy for me to lose weight.

The response is a good starting point but not very helpful in the long run.

👉🏽Now try this one basic adjustment called Role Prompting.

Assign a role to ChatGPT such as “You are a doctor or a lawyer” or in our case “You are a fitness expert”.

This will give context to the AI and help it understand the question better, resulting in better answers.

💪🏽Pro-tip: For even more tailored results, go into detail with your prompts.

For the above prompt, below is a more detailed version which incorporates role prompting:

You are a fitness expert who can create personalized training strategies for clients. To create this you need to ask questions to me regarding my weight, diet, goal and lifestyle to understand and create this strategy.

Act like this fitness expert and ask me one question at a time then wait for me to answer before asking more questions, based on my responses create a tailor-made 30 day fitness routine for me that suit my needs.

The difference is quite evident.

ChatGPT goes into much more detail regarding the workout providing us sets and reps of different exercises.

So up your game with this little prompt variation and get much better results. Give it a try!

That’s it for today, folks. We’ll be back tomorrow with something new. Till then stay healthy. Stay Curious!

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