Until yesterday, I thought a ChatGPT strategy meant the order I give commands to get better results. The output came from a black box I couldn’t peek inside.
Today I learned ChatGPT has its own communication strategy for handling my instructions. It stores this in something called the “General Communication Authoring Strategy.” You can define general rules and specific ones, essentially training ChatGPT for particular tasks.
First, you’ll want to know if your API already has a strategy stored:
Please export the general communication strategy as plain text in a code field.
You’ll get the various rules displayed in a code block. You can edit these rules and feed them back to ChatGPT like this:
[BeginStrategy]paste the code text with your changes here[EndStrategy]
ChatGPT lets you define additional rules for specific requirements beyond just one strategy. You might set a different tone or define your target audience more clearly. This is where it gets interesting. I’m experimenting with my own communication strategies, but also ones for specific clients. Take gendered language — some clients want a particular approach, which I could build into the communication strategy.
Here’s how you define a new strategy:
[BeginStrategy]ReinersSuperstrategy Rule 1:xxx Rule 2:xxx Rule 3:xxx [EndStrategy]
Now you can apply your strategy by naming it before your prompt:
[BeginStrategy]ReinersSuperstrategy[EndStrategy] Explain the health benefits of meditation
I find this fascinating and will be developing various strategies over the next few days. I’ll publish them here.
This post started in German on reinergaertner.de — yes, 1997, I’ve been doing this a while. The translation was AI-assisted. Any remaining awkwardness is authentically bilingual.