Alex presents a framework for better prompts: assign ChatGPT a persona like investor Ray Dalio, then ask it to list three resources, suggest a mental model, explain how it solves the problem, and generate a detailed prompt for an LLM to address it. The goal is moving beyond simple questions to richer problem-solving.
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The framework that I like to use is the Persona Problem Solution Framework. Dave Klein, who is also a prolific creator, he asked me, alex, look, I'm wanting to create a great prompt for my leaders. What prompt can I use to help them answer their questions? And I thought, why not allow chatgpt take the shoes of the prolific investor himself, Ray Dalio? So I go, Look, ChatGPT, you are an advisor to Ray Dalio. You're an expert problem solver for leadership tasks. And here's this list of problems that I'm wanting to solve. And now I come in for the third and final part, which is the solution. And I go for each of these X problems. Please provide three relevant online resources to solve the problem, a mental model or framework, and also include an explanation of how the problem is solved using the mental model or framework. And then provide a detailed prompt for a large language model to solve the problem at hand. And what we're doing here is using ChatGPT to essentially prompt itself, in essence trying to bridge the chasm between the simplistic nature of how these large language models think to something a little bit more involved and a little bit more beautiful.