I've had the most success with GPT explaining things to me by making it take a few sentences at a time back and forth, instead of reading full write-ups of whatever I asked. It also often poisons the conversation if it misunderstood some part of the question, and I can lead it better by continuously questioning its statements. It's also more engaging that way.

I've been learning music lately and it kept re-pasting the same one chord visualization throughout many conversations, almost randomly and often barely related to the question. So I at least hope this won't be as aggressive so I can prompt it away!

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antoniojtorres 26 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I’ve used the learning mode from gemini in th3 past and have really enjoyed it. It’s got a similar vibe to what you described.

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redman25 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Id love to learn what prompts you’re using to do that. Explanations one at a time. Thats something I’ve thought would be helpful before but didn’t know how to achieve it.

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jacquesm an hour ago | parent | next [-]

For me this works: "One thing at the time. This is a conversation, not a lecture, try to balance the amount of words you write versus the amount of words that I write. Don't overwhelm me with 10 pages of prose where a single sentence would suffice, brevity is a virtue, not a defect." I've had to tweak it a couple of times, probably because of different versions of ChatGPT but it is usually a variation on this that will do the trick. Besides being far more interactive it takes the frustration down quite a bit.

	▲	jwrallie 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Nice, I had some trouble making it stick to the dialog format over time, did you have any problem as the thread starts to get long?

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xpct an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Nothing fancy. What works for me is trying to lead the conversation: asking for definitions one at a time, asking how they differ from its previous answers and pointing it out when it conflates its own answer. I generally feel like you can't let it dictate the pace, it's not very good at that yet.

I used to edit my prompts and undo messages if it misunderstood something but that's been failing me recently.

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galkk an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

One of the things that I learned the hard way is to not to combine requests, but fork chats _a lot_ and ask singular questions. Also start new sessions with either explicitly created handovers or even just explaining current state. The more compactions I see the less and less trust I have in it’s current understanding of what we’re discussing