Feb 7

8 min read

The ChatGPT list of lists: A collection of 3000+ prompts, examples, use-cases, tools, APIs, extensions, fails and other resources.

A meerkat librarian working with books and documents on ChatGPT. — Image credit: Author, Midjourney.

Oh, ChatGPT! Some 2 months on the market and a not so tiny ecosystem has developed 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.

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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).

30x: Intro to ChatGPT and foundation models

A cute squirrel reading a book. — Image credit: Author, Midjourney.

1x: A semi-official intro by the vendor, OpenAI.

1x: How to use it

1x: Nice intro piece of Google Chief Decision Scientist and blogger Cassie Kozyrkov

1x: Praise of ChatGPT by Alberto Romero

1x: Understanding the underlying architecture, the Transformer models — pretty complex — but worth a look even if you cannot grasp everything.

26x: List of other large language models with parameters, contents, data and sizes.

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.

Image Credit: Dave Chaffey. Note: The snippet is part of a longer conversation on marketing for an office cleaning service.

400+: ChatGPT prompts for content creators, writers, bloggers by Lori Ballen

5x: Examples of well-engineered content creation prompts by Amin Boulouma

1x: Collaborative creative writing by Andrew Mayne

11x: Write a thread hook, CTA for Twitter or newsletter subject lines by Heather Cooper

8x: ChatGPT prompts for content marketing, email marketing, search and social media marketing by Dave Chaffey

20x: All things SEO: Generate, classify keywords, translate them, generate titles, metas, avoid duplicates, generate summaries, generate tech documentents like .htaccess or robots.txt. By Aleyda Solis.

5x: Still more things SEO: coding and content creation.

100x: Alexandra collected a long list of prompts for social media content creation (most of them are not really over-engineered)

50x: 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.

Image credit: Paul DelSignore, created with Midjourney based on an ChatGPT prompt. Note: When using Midjourney, never count the fingers.

2x: How to use ChatGPT to create AI art.

50x: AI art prompts for Midjourney by Mani

1x: Bildea Ana on how to let ChatGPT enrich a prompt

2x: Paul DelSignore on how to let ChatGPT write detailed AI Art prompts for a better outcome

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

1500+: Business — from accounting to zoology

100+: Long, precisely crafted prompts about all possible topics like salary negotiation, industry report, SaaS startup idea, travel guide or research proposals

150+: Very good prompts. Give professional advice in a scientific, business or professional field, do sparring, rehearse something with you, act as somebody / something … like an English pronounciation helper, salesperson, babysitter, car navigation system, time travel guide, CEO, etc.

150x: CheatSheet for various business purposes

30+: Examples of very detailled prompts on mixed topics from essays, email answers, plagiarism violation help to prompt injection (jail breaks) by yokoffing.

50x: A teachers prompt list for education

100x: Not all very useful, but again many examples: Different Prompts covering Web Development, Music, Business, Educational, Comedy, History, Health Medicine, Art, Food&Cooking, Marketing, Gaming.

5x: Cold email writing by Sam Greenspan

10+: Correcting, rewriting and analyzing English text (Sung Kim)

4x: Prepare for a job interview

1x: Write a report to your boss (Elon Musk) about what you did last week, when in fact you did nothing special (by Riley Goodside)

1337x: Book of mixed use cases by Florin Badita

280+: Coding

ChatGPT‘s papas were founders, investors, and business people and the mamas developers and scientists. No wonder it speaks its mothers‘ 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.

100+: Many, many plus more coding examples

175+: Many, many discusssions and examples how to use ChatGPT for frontend development, backend, database, devops, Alexa skill development, unit tests, documentations, etc.

4x: Aleksander Lütken on daily work automation

3x: Using it to setup an Android app

5x: Tanya Tsui: Writing python code for a geo-data project.

20x: DataScience & Machine Learning

5x: Coding questions & data science (mainly python by PyCoach)

6x: Automation tasks in the SW/DS engineering by Ahmed Besbes

10x: Machine learning code prompts from explaining, to creating regex, documentation and refactoring by Lars Nielsen

A mouse data-science worker typing on a keyboard. — Image credit: Author, Midjourney.

100x: Development Tools

1x: The official API to ChatGPT from OpenAI. Function call is similar, but not the same as GPT-3. Your OpenAI access keys still work.

30x: Tools, APIs, extensions, access from other platforms.

50x: Tools, libraries, integrations, etc. by Aymen EL Amri

40x: Editors, desktop apps, chatbots, and so on by Noelia Douglas

20x: Browser Extensions

ChatGPT browser extensions help you to use ChatGPT in a more advanced way, e.g. to answer a question based on current search results rather than the 2021 knowledge base.

6x: ChatGPT Extensions: Browser, voice, Telegram / Whatsapp, GoogleDocs

10: Best ChatGPT Chrome Extensions

3x: Extensions to automate your life from the PyCoach

1x: Search engine integration

1x: Google integration

1x: Prompt management Firefox

1000+: 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.

20+: A prompt marketplace, with prompts for ChatGPT, but as well Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, etc.

40x: Quite a few nice prompts and answers

1000+: 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

50x: ChatGPT is a fail

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?”

40+: Interesting fails of ChatGPT in the fields of arithmetics, logical reasoning, analysing tautologies, world knowledge or being consistent in one conversation — by Giuseppe Venuto

7x: Conservatives in the U.S. and UK are proving that ChatGPT (as we’ve all suspected) is a woke Californian liberal

15+: 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 in depth) — it cannot manipulate physical entities, interpret images or solve maths problems beyond simple arithmetics. Again, what is exciting for me is the incredible bandwith 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

1x: Medical Licensing

1x: AP Computer Science A free response section

1x: Chat GPT shows the fastest user growth of any application in history (Reuters)

15x: ChatGPT Achievements List … writing bills, judge’s verdicts or passing SW-engineers interview tests.

50+: 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 of AIs.

A racoon in chains in a dungeon breaking free. — Image credit: Author, Midjourney.

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.