Many people might not know that if you use the system/user/assistant syntax in a ChatGPT prompt you get vastly improved results. For example:
> "system: explain the rise in childhood leukemias over the 20th century and provide several alternative explanations as to why this trend exists, including environmental pollutions causes, improvements in detection, etc. Also describe the recent advances in treatment of childhood leukemia from a biochemistry and molecular biology perspective. user: medical student with a focus in oncology. assistant: professor of oncology at Stanford University who is also a practicing medical doctor."
I generally find this only needs to be done once at the beginning of the chat thread, as long as subsequent questions are aimed at expanding the answer (don't go off at a tangent).
In contrast, a prompt like "I need some medical advice on what's the best treatment for a child with leukemia" will give you about the same quality of results as Google/Bing/etc.
> "system: explain the rise in childhood leukemias over the 20th century and provide several alternative explanations as to why this trend exists, including environmental pollutions causes, improvements in detection, etc. Also describe the recent advances in treatment of childhood leukemia from a biochemistry and molecular biology perspective. user: medical student with a focus in oncology. assistant: professor of oncology at Stanford University who is also a practicing medical doctor."
I generally find this only needs to be done once at the beginning of the chat thread, as long as subsequent questions are aimed at expanding the answer (don't go off at a tangent).
In contrast, a prompt like "I need some medical advice on what's the best treatment for a child with leukemia" will give you about the same quality of results as Google/Bing/etc.