Supercharge your ChatGPT output with this one simple but powerful technique

Here’s a great way to supercharge ChatGPT-4. Those of you who followed my masterclass at the Cottesmore AI Festival will have seen this in action!

I call it the DocuChain technique. What you’re doing is merging the DNA of documents into a ChatGPT prompt chain in order to improve the output of ‘boring but important’ documents like surveys, job descriptions and marketing plans. 

(If you don’t want to pay $20 a month for ChatGPT Plus, much of the below can be done with Claude 2, which has a document upload function. I don’t find it as powerful though.)

It’s all about the prompt

First, a word on words. 

PromptCraft is everything. ChatGPT is a large language model. Contrary to what the UNESCO report asserts, you cannot prompt it with images (yet). Language is all you have.  

You need to understand how it likes to be spoken to:

• Define role, goal, and variable 

• Use delimiters to separate the above - the most useful ones are “””…“””, <…>, and <<…>>

• Use positive language where possible 

• Repeat instructions to make things stick

You’ll see this time and again in the prompts below. It’s quite methodical. 

Before you start, access all the prompts for the below here. Save a copy into your own Drive. 

Merge ChatGPT with three key docs to create surveys for staff, students and parents

1. Create a new Chat window with Advanced Data Analysis (ADA) enabled. (You can find this in the ChatGPT-4 drop-down menu at the top of the screen. Can’t see it? If you’ve signed up to ChatGPT Plus, then go into Settings - Beta - and enable it there.)

2. Add the first prompt. Make any changes to suit your context. 

3. Download KCSIE (or the equivalent safeguarding document for your country). Upload it to ADA using the Plus button in the prompt window. Add the second prompt. 

4. Download the Visible Learning summary you can find here. Upload to ADA and add the third prompt.

5. Download the AI readiness report here. Upload to ADA and add the fourth prompt

6. Now add the fifth prompt, which combines the original survey with the details gathered from the three analysed documents. (You can change any of these documents to suit your context of course). You may need to check to ensure it hasn’t missed out any of the original questions. It sometimes does. If so run prompt 5b. 

7. Use the sixth prompts to create surveys for students and parents.

8. Upload to Google Forms and you’re away!

Use Scraper and ADA to create a job description and person specification using your school website and two other docs

What I like is how each of the three final documents speak to one another, ensuring consistency. 

1. Create a new Chat. 

2. Enable the Scraper plug-in to ChatGPT- 4. To do this, click on the ChatGPT-4 icon at the top, choose plugins, choose the bottom of the plug-in menu to access the full list of plugins, and select the one you need. 

3. First off, use the first prompt of this sequence. Navigate to your website. Grab the homepage URL. Paste the URL into ChatGPT with the first prompt. 

4. Copy the output. 

5. Make sure you have KCSIE and Teacher Standards downloaded. 

6. Start a new ChatGPT window with ADA enabled. 

7. Add the second prompt, including adding the role being advertised into the first set of delimiters <>, and copying the info from the scraped school website into the second set <<>>. 

8. Upload KCSIE and run the third prompt. 

9. Upload Teacher Standards and run the fourth prompt. 

10. Now, combine them together using the fifth prompt. Check to ensure it hasn’t missed anything from the original job description. If so, run prompt 6b.

11. Run the sixth prompt to create the person specification. 

12. And the eighth to create the blurb for the job ad.  

Create a marketing plan using Scraper and WebPilot. 

This is a fun idea, as it takes your website content and combines it with a digital marketing plan. 

1. Enable Scraper and Webpilot plugins. 

2. Copy your school website url. 

3. Run the first prompt, adding the website url into the delimiters. 

4. Run the second prompt, going step by step to write out the plan in more detail.

5. Run the third prompt, which already includes this digital marketing guide. Note I don’t use the word ‘scrape’ in this prompt, as Scraper doesn’t work with PDFs. By using ‘read’ the AI uses WebPilot.

6. You should now have a numbered school digital marketing plan outline that is specific to your context 

You can see how much scope this technique has, and how it massively leverages the AI’s reading, summarising, merging and synthesising abilities. 

Try it with all your generated text and see the difference!