Tag Archives: ChatGPT

Prompting: Mind the Context Window

Does it really matter if you open a new chat in ChatGPT or if you just keep working in the old chat which is getting longer and longer? Actually it matters—a lot!

Did you know that with every question that you send to ChatGPT the complete history of your current chat is sent to ChatGPT again? It is like an e-mail conversation where all previous messages are kept with each new mail. The problem: ChatGPT processes the entire previous conversation—every time.

The problem is: The longer your current chat history, the more words are fed into ChatGPT with each new prompt and—the less intelligent ChatGPT may be.

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Prompting: Summarizing and Quantifying Textual Feedback

If you conduct a survey with open questions or receive feedback from your students, you end up with many textual utterances. How do you summarize it? And how do you get a sense of what has been mentioned multiple times?

You can ask ChatGPT to summarize textual feedback and you can also ask for some kind of quantification.

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Prompting: Summarizing Papers for your Research

If you are writing a research article or if you are just trying to stay up-to-date in your research field, you need to read publications—lots of them. Of course, you know that ChatGPT can summarize these for you. But often the summaries are much too long and may lack the focus you need.

Recommendation: Provide ChatGPT with a structured template for your paper summary. This way your summaries remain short and comparable, so you can easily keep an overview of all your papers.

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