3 Advanced (and Unique) ChatGPT Uses You’ve Likely Not Seen Before

This isn’t your typical ChatGPT article.

You know, the hyperbolic “6 Mindblowing ChatGPT Secrets 99% of People Don’t Know About” kind. The actual “secret” most don’t know?

ChatGPT itself can write such clickbaity ChatGPT blogs! Try it yourself:

Prompt: “Act as a professional writer specializing in ChatGPT and AI. Use a persuasive voice, creative style, and a friendly tone. Rewrite your answers until they sound as human-like as possible.
Now, write an 800-word essay titled ‘6 Mindblowing ChatGPT Uses 99% of People Don’t Know About’ with appropriate H1, H2, and body formatting.”

A dash of rephrasing. A pinch of plagiarism-proofing. Boom! Off into the hype-riding ocean of ChatGPT content.

Refusing to surf this hype, I didn’t write any “ChatGPT Uses” articles in the 10 months since my first one went viral.

Tinkering with ChatGPT in silence, I found and honed 3 meta-uses— for expert advice, precise browsing, and fact-checking.

They’re “meta” as they fan out into myriad specific usages — learning niche concepts, content researching, debugging code, recalling lost ideas, filtering misinformation, etc.

Unlike most ChatGPT articles, I won’t share solo vanilla prompts and call it a day. Instead, I’ll…

• Share optimized compound prompts — with 3 enhancements for each use case.
• Dissect composite prompts part by part and explain the rationale.
• Wrap it all up with prompt templates you can plug and play.

These meta-prompts have worked wonders for my research speed, workflow, and idea/concept recall. I hope they do the same (and more) for you.

Before we dive in, fire up ChatGPT on a new tab — to prompt as you read.

#1 — Name-Prime ChatGPT Into a Niche Expert

Hunting for signal bars around the bamboo house, we squatted on a dusty tree trunk.

“Ah! Finally”, gingerly holding the tab, “Brother, now watch ChatGPT’s power. Let’s try coconut oil extraction”, I beamed at my farmer friend.

Prompt 1.1: “Act as an expert Indian organic farmer specializing in coconut farming for coconut oil production. Now explain the step-by-step process from start to end to produce coconut oil.”

This was a hyper-simple version of ChatGPT “priming”—aka laser-focusing ChatGPT’s expertise on a specific topic(s).

True name-priming is far more powerful — but I didn’t use it to avoid overwhelming my tech-unsavvy pal.

Let me illustrate by awakening ChatGPT’s inner grammar Nazi: