ChatGPT can write and edit things for you, convert data, and generate code. Here are some prompts to try in your work life.
Summary: ChatGPT can help you work by brainstorming ideas, writing video scripts, refining or expanding text, converting numbers, providing facts on a topic, writing spreadsheet formulas, distilling meeting notes into minutes and actions, reviewing text for errors, turn text into a presentation script, and writing code / checking for bugs.
There are four categories of things I do the most with ChatGPT:
- Help me with home life
- Help me work
- Help me learn
- Have a bit of fun
Check out the other posts for tips on using ChatGPT at home, to learn, to have fun, and how to personalise the experience, now this one’s about work…
Help me work
Here’s the video version (7min):
Here are ten prompt ideas to try (prompt text in bold), and how they turned out.
Blog post ideas, like “blog post ideas for a self-improvement blog with a focus on digital life”
Write something for me, like “YouTube video script for a 1min video about how to use ChatGPT to save time at work”
Refine text, like by summarising, or expanding it, like “summarise this text for me: [and paste your text]”
![ChatGPT prompt "summarise this text for me: [and paste your text]" and its response](https://www.producingparadise.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ChatGPT-summarise-text-784x1024.png)
Convert a dataset, like “change these negative values into positive values: [and paste your numbers]”
![ChatGPT prompt "change these negative values into positive values: [and paste your numbers]" and its response](https://www.producingparadise.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ChatGPT-Convert-negative-values-positive.png)
Give me facts I can use in a presentation, like “give me facts about women in the workforce and the gender pay gap in Australia” (but remember to fact-check these)
Write Excel formulas, like “Can you help me write a formula to find the average of a range of cells in Excel?”
Convert a meeting transcript into minutes and actions, like “I’ll paste my meeting transcript below, please turn this into minutes and actions: [and paste your text]”
![ChatGPT prompt "I'll paste my meeting transcript below, please turn this into minutes and actions: [and paste your text]" and its response](https://www.producingparadise.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ChatGPT-Project-WIP-meeting-transcript-to-minutes-and-actions-331x1024.png)
Review text for grammatical errors, like “review and correct any errors below: [and paste your text]”
![ChatGPT prompt "review and correct any errors below: [and paste your text]" and its response](https://www.producingparadise.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ChatGPT-review-for-errors.png)
Turn text into a script for a presentation with an outline and key talking points, “convert text below into a presentation with an outline and key talking points: [and paste your text]” (I used this blog post as the text.)
![ChatGPT prompt "convert text below into a presentation with an outline and key talking points: [and paste your text]” and its response](https://www.producingparadise.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ChatGPT-presentation-outline-and-talking-points-562x1024.png)
Write code and identify bugs, like “Write a program that generates a random list of numbers and sorts them in ascending order”
How have you been using ChatGPT to help with your work? Have I missed any cool tricks? 👀
So far there are six posts in this series, check out the others:
- How to personalise ChatGPT
- Help me learn
- Help me with home life
- Have a bit of fun
- Which AI has the freshest data?
And relatedly: Should I use AI, given its concerning environmental impact?
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