How to write a good prompt

Write a good prompt to get the best results from GPT for Work. Be very specific about what you want and prompt exactly like you would brief a person to do the job, by providing clear instructions and ample context.

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Check out our OpenAI GPT prompt generator

Label	Description	Examples
Task	What you want to achieve Note: This should be composed of at least a verb and a noun. You can replace "Task" by "Question" if it makes more sense.	Task: write a cold email Task: write a blogpost Task: write 5 taglines Task: summarize in 3 paragraphs Task: translate from English to Spanish Task: create a tweet thread of 10 tweets Question: How can I find an SEO expert?
Topic	What your text is about Note: Don't hesitate to be highly specific.	Topic: sell a shampoo Topic: an ice-cream shop Topic: food in Ancient Rome
Role	What character the AI has to impersonate	Role: Act as a teacher. Write in very basic terms, and illustrate with examples adapted to your audience. Then provide links to explore the topic further. Role: Act as a tech reviewer. You write in-depth reviews including pros, cons, features, and benchmarks. Role: Act as a technical writer. Your writing is very structured and hierarchical. Instructions are provided step by step so the reader can apply them without thinking.
Style	What type of language you want to use	Style: casual Style: formal Style: business Style: creative Style: academic
Tone	How you want your text to sound	Tone: joyful Tone: angry Tone: funny Tone: serious Tone: excited Tone: sad
Audience	Who this text is for Note: This helps GPT find the right words and level of abstraction.	Audience: 5-year old Audience: teenager who likes rock music Audience: my boss Audience: topic expert
Length	How long the output is expected to be (any unit) Note: GPT is not great with numbers so it's good to be overly precise about what you want here if you have a hard limit.	Length: 4 paragraphs Length: 250 words Length: strictly under 30 characters including spaces
Format	What syntax your output must comply with, if required	Format: HTML Format: JSON Format: markdown
	Any other parameter or instruction that is useful to you	Country: X Product: door bell Relate recipient job title to the user selling proposition Sign as XYZ Start with xxx Include references to X, Y and Z

Your full prompt should look like this:

Task: write 5 taglines
Topic: a car shop
Style: funny
Tone: excited
City: New York
Length: strictly under 100 characters including spaces

Google Sheets and Docs, as well as Microsoft Excel, are text editors, so they make it extremely easy to write a good prompt that you can then use with our extensions:

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While GPT can sometimes understand multi-lingual prompts, or generate a response in a different language from the prompt language, it is highly recommended to write your prompt in the language that you expect your response to be in.