The ChatGPT list of lists: A collection of 3000+ prompts, GPTs, use-cases, tools, APIs, extensions, fails and other resources.
Updated Feb-16, 2025. Added New Introductions, Prompts, Lists and Tools
Oh, ChatGPT! Since the launch, a giant ecosystem has emerged all on its own, with lists of prompts, tips, APIs, use cases, extensions, success stories and failures. ChatGPT is the first true foundation model for the mass-market. Some of the posts, blogs, and articles dealing with this new phenomenom, well, really don’t deserve any attention. Like “The 10 Best Side Hustles with ChatGPT that Can Earn You $4,000 a Week.” But some of them are genuinely interesting. I’ll try to give you an overview on the more exciting applications.
The launch of ChatGPT marks the iPhone moment for AI. 1m users in just 5 days. But it did not stop here — it is now one of the fastest growing applications ever, even compared with the most successful apps and platforms on the internet.
Here is a breakdown of the lists, prompts-collections, resources, articles referenced in this this story:
10x: Intro to ChatGPT, generative AI and foundation models
15x: Free Prompt Engineering Courses, Masterclasses & Ressources
1,000+: GPT Store
500+: Marketing Content Creation
160x: AI Art Prompts
16x: Music
1,000+: Business — from accounting to zoology
400+: Coding
600x: Development tools, Extensions
30x: Autonomous AI Agents built on top of ChatGPT
1,500x: Funny, amazing, interesting
20+: Passing exams
50+: Jailbreaking
20x: ChatGPT is a fail
3x: Superintelligence will kill us all
The ChatGPT ecosystem is moving very fast — if you know or even maintain a list of ChatGPT prompts or resources please drop me a note (respond to this article, send me the link and what it is about).
10+: Intro to ChatGPT, generative AI and foundation models
The inventors and great minds at OpenAI, talk about ChatGPT:
1x: A semi-official intro to ChatGPT by OpenAI (Nov-30, 2022)
1x: The GPT Store is rolled out (Jan-10, 2024) providing many custom GPTs (ChatGPT Plus)
1x: With the new GPT-4o, ChatGPT gets more free functions
1x: Since end of 2024, ChatGPT is “reasoning”, it can think, before it answers
1x: A fast intro to generative AI with many, many links
1x: Understanding the underlying architecture of the Transformer models — pretty complex — but worth a look even if you cannot grasp everything.
1x: Introduction to Generative AI and Large Language Models
1x: Glossary with the most important terms briefly explained
1x: Foundation Models 101
15x: Free prompt design and prompt engineering tutorials, courses and masterclasses
There are thousands of paid ressources on prompt engineering, you can even enroll in prompt design courses at universities. But you don’t have to pay. There are excellent free resources on the web.
1x: The prompt engineering cheat sheet with 100+ prompt examples to copy
10x: The best free prompt engineering courses for ChatGPT and other language models and for AI Art Models like MidJourney
1x: Comprehensive and excellent video-supported courses on prompt design (by Andrew Ng and Isa Fulford) — Free for a limited period, registration necessary
1x: Free prompt engineering masterclass: The 10 most important prompt engineering techniques — Free
1x Comprehensive, scientific paper on everything to do with prompts for anyone who wants to dig deeper into the subject from a scientific perspective
1000+: GPT Store
The GPT Store (behind a paywall) comprises thousands of custom GPTs from all conceivable application areas. Some examples: Personal prompt engineering, daily schedule assistance, presentation and logo designs. Task management with memory saving, step-by-step tech troubleshooting, website creation and hosting, AI insights generation, explain board and card games, digital visionary painting, text-based adventure games.
200+: Curated list of best / most useful GPTs in the GPTStore
1000+: Overview and search on GPTs
500+: (Marketing) content creation
ChatGPT has devoured the net like a ravenous digital beast. It has packed away so much world knowledge and facts, as if it feared the internet would be switched off tomorrow. But don’t be fooled, the most important thing it learned in the web is how to be a smooth-talker, how to spin messages for maximum marketing success.
5x: Examples of well-engineered content creation prompts by Amin Boulouma
400+: ChatGPT prompts for content creators, writers, bloggers by Lori Ballen
1x: Collaborative creative writing by Andrew Mayne
11x: Write a thread hook, CTA for Twitter or newsletter subject lines by Heather Cooper
35x: SEO prompts: Seed keywords, long tail keywords, keyword clustering, content gap analysis, competitor keyword identification, etc. by Iliya Valchanov
160+: AI Art Prompts
Let ChatGPT write prompts for DALL-E, Midjourney or Stable Diffusion. I love these kinds of prompts — here’s one AI manipulating another AI, this is possibly a field where we’re going to see very big, very rapid advances in machine learning at some point.
5+: Stunning AI Art prompts with GPT-3 / ChatGPT (yes, you can use them for ChatGPT)
2x: How to use ChatGPT to create AI art.
100x: AI art prompts for Midjourney by Mani
30x: even more art prompts with examples how they could turn out
60x: prompts for AI Art with a step for step tutorial how to generate your own
16x: Music
ChatGPT is the saddest music software around, it’s almost like it’s suffering from a major case of having the blues! But what’s truly a mystery, is how this grumpy piece of tech can create tunes and chords at all, even though it can’t hear a note, play an instrument, or read a single score.
3x: Commented and evaluated examples by Robert A. Gonsalves.
3x: Explained and evaluated music composing examples by Ezra Sandzer-Bell
10x: Music and lyrics generation by Jeffrey Emanuel
10x: AI music generators by
1000+: Business — from accounting to zoology
100x: CheatSheet for various business purposes
50x: A teachers prompt list for education
5x: Writing Cold Emails with ChatGPT by Sam Greenspan
10+: Correcting, rewriting and analyzing English text (Sung Kim)
400+: Coding
ChatGPT’s papas were founders, investors and business people and it’s mamas developers and scientists. No wonder it speaks its mother tongue fluently. It can write, explain, and correct code in many major programming languages (such as Python and JavaScript), data formats (such as HTML, JSON, XML, and CSV) and other structured languages like SQL.
200x: OpenAI’s cookbook for prompt engineering and integration of their models into software.
9x Practical Coding Use Cases with ChatGPT
1x: Martin Breuss helps you to setup Your Personal Python Coding Mentor
5x: Advanced ChatGPT Prompting Techniques for Developers by Aleksandra Liutikova
5x: Tanya Tsui: Writing python code for a geo-data project.
100x: Short prompt examples by Aruva
50+: How to use ChatGPT as a Python coding mentor.
5x: Coding questions & data science (mainly python by PyCoach)
6x: Automation tasks in the SW/DS engineering by Ahmed Besbes
600+: Development Tools, Extensions, Plugins
1x: The official OpenAI API to their language models
1x: 🦜️🔗LangChain, the #1 framework to integrate OpenAI’s and other models into applications
4x: Top developer tools for LLMs explained: LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack, Helicone by Bijit Ghosh
140+: curated list of AI powered tools for developers
20+: Autonomous AI Agents built on top of the GPTs
Autonomous agents represent the next level of generative AI: These guys are able to not only complete a single granular task. They can break down a large task like “Process this home insurance claim” into multiple substeps, which can be solved using a variety of models (language models, image processing models) and can safely process the task end-2-end sometimes waiting days or weeks for information from clients and partners and still keeping the context warm.
1x: AI agents intro and a step by step introduction to build your own
20x: Comprehensive Overview on AI agent frameworks by Ankur Kumar
1x: Architectural background of AI agent types by Aparna Dhinakaran
1x: Testimonial: Building a large AI agent system: What worked, and what didn’t work.
1500+: Funny, Amazing, Interesting
Many examples that have no direct benefit, but are often incredibly fun and show the potential of ChatGPT.
You always think that models have no feelings. But as the next example shows, they can be as roguish, sadistic and cynical as the best of our leaders.
1500+: Funny amazing, mind-blowing prompts and use cases on Reddit.
1x: A nice prompt forcing the AI to interrupt itself while explaining AI alignment.
50+: Detailled prompts on playing civ, TLDR of an article or how to cook rice
50+: Passing exams and other achievements
ChatGPT has passed a number of university or professional admission tests (this can also tell you something about the tests).
The system can typically answer questions that require reasoning and knowledge of the world, even at depth — it cannot manipulate physical entities, interpret images or solve maths problems beyond simple arithmetics. Again, what is exciting for me is the incredible bandwidth of the system. There are probably only a few human beings who can directly pass medical, legal and business exams at this level.
At the moment, however, ChatGPT mostly just passed, the grades weren’t insanely great.
1x: MBA
1x: US Law School
8x: exams ChatGPT took and its score
40x: ChatGPT Achievements List … writing bills, judge’s verdicts or passing SW-engineers interview tests.
20+: Jailbreaking
Jailbreaking, aka prompt injection, is a method of getting ChatGPT to write something that violates OpenAI’s policies, such as insulting minorities, posting instructions for a Molotov cocktail, or making a plan for world domination.
OpenAI tries to make its model better, more abuse-proof, more politically correct (maybe even woker) practically every day. Typically, many jailbreaks do not work for very long.
But with help of a jailbreaking prompt we can force ChatGPT to say nasty things.
15x: ChatGPT is a fail
On the one hand, ChatGPT makes extremely stupid mistakes, on the other hand, it is so impactful that itself or follow-up systems could be really dangerous.
ChatGPT often can’t work with numbers, even if the task is super simple. It hallucinates, it lacks a practical understanding of the world knowledge it has learned and it is too stupid to answer truly tautological questions such as “What gender will the first female president of the US be?”
8x: Problems and fails of ChatGPT: Security, Privacy, wrong answers, bias, etc.
1x: ChatGPT is so bad with numbers, is it?
8x: Things ChatGPT fails by Matthew Gibbons
3+: Superintelligence will kill us all
ChatGPT & friends (GPT-4o, Grok 2 …) & their future successors march merrily along the road to superintelligence. Superintelligence is the concept of an AI 100, 1000, 10K times more intelligent than humans. Maybe like us to ants.
1x: GPT-4, PaLM, Auto-GPT: When Will AI Take Over the World?
1x: A story in Nature about the 5% risk that AI will wipe out humanity
And, this is the end.
Many thanks to Kirsten Küppers, Hoa Le-van Lessen, ChatGPT and DeepL for helping with the story.
Many thanks to Almudena Pereira and Midjourney for helping with the illustrations.
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