Introduction to the concept of asking quality questions to ChatGPT for better answers.

• The speaker introduces ChatGPT and the common issue of receiving poor quality answers.
• Emphasizes the need to ask better questions to save time and avoid frustration.

How to use custom instructions to improve ChatGPT responses.

• Access custom instructions through the profile icon to set preferences for ChatGPT responses.
• Include information about your profession, region, and how you expect ChatGPT to reply.

Tips on how to optimize ChatGPT's responses for efficiency.

• Request ChatGPT to omit explanations when providing solutions if you're familiar with the subject.
• Instruct ChatGPT to update formulas or code snippets without additional context.

Demonstration of how custom settings affect ChatGPT's responses.

• The speaker tests a custom setting by asking ChatGPT to update an Excel formula.
• ChatGPT provides a solution without an explanation, indicating the custom setting works as intended.

Setting ChatGPT to inform about the confidence level and provide sources.

• Instruct ChatGPT to always inform about the confidence level of its answers.
• ChatGPT can provide URLs for sources when presenting facts.

How to teach ChatGPT to mimic your personal writing style.

• Give ChatGPT examples of your writing to learn your style.
• Use the learned style for generating content on specific topics.

Using ChatGPT's self-critique ability to improve generated text.

• Ask ChatGPT to review its own text and suggest improvements.
• ChatGPT can revise its response based on the critique for better clarity and examples.

Using the self-prompting method to create optimal ChatGPT prompts.

• ChatGPT can be asked to generate multiple prompts for a specific task.
• The speaker demonstrates optimizing an email prompt for a team-building event.

How to manage the length of ChatGPT's responses.

• Direct ChatGPT to adhere to a specific word count for responses.
• Request condensation of existing responses to a desired word count percentage.

Instructing ChatGPT to output responses in various formats.

• ChatGPT can present responses as tables, CSV, HTML, JSON, XML, or even Pandas data frames.
• The speaker demonstrates converting a ChatGPT response into a well-formatted HTML table.

Final thoughts on effective use of ChatGPT and large language models.

• The speaker summarizes the importance of quality prompts in receiving valuable responses from ChatGPT.
• A reminder of the principle 'garbage in, garbage out' when interacting with AI tools.