I’m curious which one you are, so just simply respond to this email with the appropriate word!
So, do you know the difference between a Centaur and a Cyborg?
A Centaur is human from the torso up, and animal from below. Whether a horse, pegasus or unicorn, idk.
A Cyborg on another hand is a mixture of human and machine parts, but there is no clear line (or plane for those who wanna argue with me) on where the human ends and the machine begins.
It’s more of a mix here and there. It might be clear to see which part is machine, but it’s all over the place.
A ChatGPT conversation can be just like that. Some people spend long minutes on phrasing a prompt the perfect way, writing these so called “megaprompts” that have all 6 key elements and even a few more.
Then they send the prompt, and get a machine response.
Here, it’s clear where the line is.
Prompt written by human, response written by machine.
Like a centaur.
Usually one prompt gets the job done.
If you were to look at a text-only ChatGPT conversation that didn’t have “user” and “assistant” labeled, you’d still be able to tell where the border is.
Another approach is to just talk to ChatGPT like engaging in a conversation with another human being. You ask questions, then it answers. Then you ask it to ask a question (maybe for more context from you), then you answer those questions.
And it’s a really organic conversation like method.
This is the cyborg approach where the barrier between human and machine is a lot more subtle.
If you were to read through an unlabeled transcript of such a conversation, it might not be so easy to determine which part is said by whom.
Now before you get into the “ugh, I’m a centaur and I can’t prompt like a cyborg” or the “why can’t I write these great megaprompts”, let me tell you something.
Both approaches are great, and both should be used at certain times.
In these cases, knowing all the 6 key elements of a prompt, when to use them, how to use them, when not to use them is crucial to optimize the performance of Custom GPTs and GPT-based bots alike.
If you want to be a cyborg, you should know the 8 different conversation design methods that we invented and refined. With them, you can design any kind of conversation within ChatGPT or in between AI agents.
And lucky for you, we have an entirely self-paced online course for this called simply the Prompt Engineering Course, where I’ll teach you all of this, and everything else you need to know in an easy to understand way with practical examples and exercises!
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Best,
Dave
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