By Kent Berk on July 2nd, 2024 in PROBATE LITIGATION
In previous articles, we covered how ChatGPT can help you in your law practice and ways to market your law firm using AI. Here, we’ll cover something a little more basic: how to interact or “write a prompt” with ChatGPT.
What is “ChatGPT” anyway? It is a type of AI model developed by OpenAI and consists of three components:
- Generative: Refers to the model’s ability to generate text or other content.
- Pre-trained: Indicates that the model has been trained on a large dataset before being fine-tuned for specific tasks.
- Transformer: Refers to the type of neural network architecture used, which is particularly effective for processing and generating sequences of text.
A “prompt” is simply how you interact with ChatGPT, either by typing or dictating into a “chat box.”
A prompt can do many things, such as:
- Ask questions to get information or explanations.
- Start a conversation or continue a dialogue.
- Generate creative content.
- Request specific instructions for tasks like summarizing text, translating languages, or writing code.
The quality and specificity of the prompt will affect the relevance and accuracy of the result. So, here we explain how to write solid prompts so you get the best results.
The “Risen” Prompt Writing Model
Although you should customize each prompt depending on your desired result, we have found the “RISEN” approach useful.
- Role: Define the specific role or perspective from which you want AI to answer.
- Instructions: Explain what you are trying to do.
- Steps: Give steps that AI should use, e.g. review a website, review a document, start with humor or start with an intro that…
- End Goal: Identify the target audience and what you want.
- Narrow: Specify any key requirements, such as tone, grade level, things to avoid or include, length, geography, a strong call to action or a forceful conclusion.
We recommend regularly asking ChatGPT if there is anything else you can provide to optimize the result you want. For example, “before you answer, do you need any more information?”
Prompt writing takes practice. Experiment. Ask ChatGPT. Have fun!
Reprinted from the Maricopa Lawyer, July 2024.
