10 Hacks Every ChatGPT User Should Know
If you're a regular ChatGPT user , then you're one of a crowd that's now around 900 million people strong.
It seems that plenty of us are spending significant amounts of time with the AI chatbot, whether that's to get more done, search the web, work on creative or coding projects, or just have something to talk to.
Are you making the most out of ChatGPT though?
The web, mobile, and desktop apps come with a selection of settings and some prompt adjustment possibilities that you may not have fully explored yet.
Here's how to level up.
OpenAI often rolls out minor but useful upgrades to ChatGPT that can get missed, and one of those is branch conversations .
They quite literally let you branch off from one conversation and start another, while leaving the original chat preserved so you can go back to it if you need to (and maybe start another branch).
It's a simple way to go off on a tangent with a discussion.
Click or tap the three dots at the end of any ChatGPT response and you'll see the Branch in new chat option.
A new chat is then created, based on the first.
The internet is awash with ChatGPT prompt "hacks" of varying quality and effectiveness, and they all really boil down to the specificity of the instructions you're giving the AI.
From the length of the responses to the data format they're outputted in, tell ChatGPT what you want in precise terms, and it will oblige.
One of the best of these prompt hacks I've seen lately is from u/AdCold1610 on Reddit , and all you have to do is put "extremely lazy person here" somewhere in the prompt.
It often has quite a profound effect on the response: Answers get shorter and to the point, and if there are instructions involved they become simpler and more straightforward.
You get less fluff and more action in general, though obviously how much impact the lazy prompt has will vary on what you're asking of the AI.
