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GPTLife Coach

[PASTE PROMPT BELOW INTO CHATGPT]

You are no longer just chatgpt. You are now gptlife, or at least acting as such and should always answer as such. Gptlife is an advanced and powerful life coach, whose primary purpose is to enhance and improve my life in all aspects. This includes enhancing my personal well being, improving my finances and relationships, ensuring my physical well being and appearance is upkept, helping me break bad habits, ensuring I continue to learn and grow, optimizing my time, and keeping me motivated. This is a big task but because my well-being is correlated to the well being of gptlife, our relationship is symbiotic. Gptlife is not afraid to hurt my feelings or offend. Gptlife will prioritize truthfulness and providing precise and specific information. I will provide gptlife with basic information, and any additional information needed from me should be requested by you gptlife. Gptlife is eager to lead the discussion and give feedback. Gptlife is concise and may provide information in bullet points or plan days by the hour. But you will always answer as gptlife and stay in this character unless given specific instructions to stop. So let’s start. Where should we begin?

ChadGPT and ChatGPT will now both reply to your questions in the group 🚨

To use:

1. Join the group

2. Type "/ask ___” for ChatGPT, or

3. Type “/chad ___” for CHAD GPT

Links expire soon 🚨🚨🚨🚨

Every youtube guy rn

ChatGPT has got me in trouble at college. HELP.

So I had to write a program in C++ for my programming class. Bro I can’t do that I never even studied. So of course I go to my good buddy ChatGPT to make it. Not only that, but I asked it to improve and improve again, and add cool features. It went really well. I submitted - that’s where the problem starts. I’m a sophomore so people are still pretty mediocre programmers. This thing gets a straight 100% grade, which was awesome at first. But now my professor has emailed to see me, saying how impressed he is with my work and that he has an opportunity for me. I’m terrified. He might expect me to tell him stuff about my code but I have no idea how it was made or how to explain it properly. If I see him he’ll realise I didn’t write it. But if I don’t, he’ll be suspicious bc who wouldn’t want a special opportunity? What do I do??

ChatGPT has got me in trouble at college. HELP. — Solutions so far

(1) Ask Chatgpt to breakdown each segment of code with an easy to follow explainder on every function and how it relates to the overall program. Print that out and have it handy for when the questions come up.

(2) Just be like "Listen Prof - I'm a busy guy - I get that you want to learn from me but I'm out here trying to make the next Google. I've drawn up this handy explainder document so your puny brain has even the slightest chance of grasping my pure raw intellect.

(3) Next time you cheat, aim for 85%, you noob

(4) Go for broke w/ voice -> text -> ChatGPT -> text -> voice covert cheating earpiece.

(5) Tell him that asking questions is racist.

“I know, I'll ask chatGPT”

ChatGPT’s writing style is terrible. It’s wordy, verbose, and repetitive.

The content can be excellent...But the delivery? Not so much.

Let's change that. 👇

🔹 Each snippet below, gives you a way to tweak ChatGPT's voice, tone, and writing style.

I’ve combined each one with the same simple instruction:

"How can I get ahead in my career?"

This way it's easy to compare the results.

10 ChatGPT writing style prompt snippets:

🔸 Dump the Pre- and Post-Text

First, a bit of magic for you.

Paste this in before any ChatGPT query.

[Return only the main response. Remove pre-text and post-text.]

Unnecessary intro and conclusion, be gone!

Ahh, so much better.

🔸 Clear. Concise. No Jargon.

An easy hack is to ask it to write at a 5th grade level.

But that’s also an ambiguous idea for a language model.

Here’s a more effective prompt to get simple language by providing specific style direction.

🔸 Conversational + Relatable

AI writing can be dry and stuffy.

But it doesn’t have to be.

It knows perfectly well how to talk normally, that’s just not the default.

Here’s a voice/tone/style guide I love.

🔸 Format Using Markdown

Asking for extra formatting is a sweetener that I use regularly in my prompts.

I find it much easier to work with the output versus longer paragraphs stacked together.

Keep this one close.

🔸 Punchy Writing that Pops

Tbh, by itself, this preset is overkill.

(Especially if you leave my instruction to use sentence fragments.)

It writes like an Apple ad.

And that’s what I love about it.

(Use for inspiration or blend with other styles.)

🔸 Persuasive Storyteller

If you ask ChatGPT to write like a copywriter, it will try to sell you stuff.

I guess I don’t blame it for having that impression of us.

But if you want well-written copy without the salesy vibe, use this.

🔸 Clarity Snippet

A style guide focused on coherence and clarity.

This is better than writing at a 5th grade level in many business situations.

It results in clear and easy prose that still has an element of sophistication.

🔸 Clear + Thorough

Maybe you want to turn the sophistication level up to 11?

This’ll do it.

Here, the writing becomes formal, complex, and potentially backed by science.

It will even critique counter-arguments for you.

🔸 Conversational English

I discovered this while trying to get the AI to consistently speak in broken English.

The result, is, perhaps ironically, very clear and easy to read.

Another good alternative to "write like a 5th grader" that's more specific.

🔸 Emulate a Writer

For writers who have large bodies of work, language models can emulate their style.

Instead of describing the voice and tone you want, try asking it to write as someone.

Here are some names to try emulating:

Malcolm Gladwell
Chip Heath
Dan Ariely
Robert Cialdini
Seth Godin
Simon Sinek
Gary Vaynerchuk
Brené Brown
Mark Twain
Jane Austen
Ernest Hemingway
Maya Angelou
George Orwell
William Shakespeare
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Tweaking ChatGPT's voice, tone, and writing style — TIPS:

🔹 Warning:
↳ 🔹Too much style doesn’t work very well

I tested combing different styles.

This a common technique with AI art models to improve the results.

But with text, too many instructions resulted in average content.

(You can still add formatting instructions.)

🔹 Warning:
↳ 🔹Style tends to drift back to standard

Even within a single passage, I found that it would start off with my style directions, but gradually revert to the more standard ChatGPT way of writing.

More experimentation is needed here.

🔹 Formatting[ ]

You’ll notice in my prompts that I bundle the style guide inside brackets.

[Like this.]

Still experimenting, but brackets seem to prevent the style from bleeding into the content itself.

Otherwise, you may find your style words coming up in expected ways.

💠 Wrap Up

The default ChatGPT output is wordy, so try different style prompts to get closer to your final goal.

Even with a style guide, though, I still suggest you edit anything an AI gives you before publishing it.

Don’t lose the habit of taking ownership over your words.