AI Awakening! Enable Task Execution with 'Attention Prompts'! (Essential for ChatGPT Long Prompts, Multiple Tasks, and GPTs Creation)

Hello everyone.

Have you ever felt like you weren't getting the results you wanted in your conversations with AI lately?

Especially when giving long instructions or complex tasks, the AI sometimes misses the point. That's where this comes in handy:

"Attention Prompt"

Today, I'll be talking about this useful technique in detail.

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What is an Attention Prompt?

An attention prompt is a method of directing the AI's attention to specific parts. Even in human conversation, we emphasize important points or change our tone of voice, right? Attention prompts do the same thing in your interactions with AI.

AI has a mechanism called an "attention mechanism." This is a function that determines which parts of the input information should be focused on. Attention prompts work on this mechanism to control what the AI should pay attention to.

Three Main Methods for Attention Prompts

1. Structure Method: This is a method of explicitly conveying the priority of importance to the AI by refining the structure of the prompt. For example, you can write the most important tasks first or use numbering to indicate priority.

2. Free Attention Method: This method is very simple. You just enclose important parts with the word "Important." For example, you use it like "[Important] Please pay attention to this part [Important]." It's simple, but surprisingly effective.

3. Markdown Level Adjustment Method: This is a method of adjusting markdown heading levels to make relatively important parts stand out. For example, you represent the most important part with "#" and the next most important part with "##." By lowering the level of less important parts, the important parts stand out relatively more.

I tried it out

When I tried to build an app that automatically creates articles from news, I initially gave all the instructions at once, but it didn't work well. So, I used an attention prompt to make it focus on generating the title and sections, and it was a complete success.

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5:24 - Adjusting task priority using attention prompts

I also tried it with ChatGPT's Canvas feature. When I used terms like "strengthen importance" or "high-priority task," the AI understood it perfectly.

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10:58 - Experimenting with prompt improvement using the Canvas feature

Usage Examples

It seems Key-kun has tried out attention prompts and has written a very easy-to-understand example of how to use them, so please check it out.

He wrote it even more clearly than I did lol

Visualizing the AI's 'Eyes'

What's interesting is that you can visualize where the AI is focusing within a text. For example, I tried it with a text written about Buddhism. I found that the AI was focusing on fundamental teachings like the 'Four Noble Truths' and the 'Eightfold Path'.

However, what you want to be careful about here is that the AI's focus points are not necessarily always correct. In the case of the Buddhism example, the parts the AI prioritizes can sometimes differ from the concepts considered important in actual Buddhist studies.

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18:34 - Analysis and improvement of attention scores regarding Buddhism

⬇️ Practice of improving attention scores (YouTube/Shorts)

In the end, human knowledge is also important

Yes, AI is a convenient tool, but it is us humans who master it. If you have specialized knowledge and judgment, you can appropriately evaluate the AI's output and make corrections if necessary.

That is why it is important to deepen your own knowledge and understanding while using AI. If you leverage the strengths of both AI and humans, you should be able to get even more interesting results.

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22:50 - Adjusting attention balance and the importance of specialized knowledge

Utilizing Attention Prompts: Summary

Attention prompts are a powerful tool to make communication with AI more effective. However, to make the most of them, we also need to polish our own knowledge and judgment.

1. Structuring prompts: Clarify task priorities and make important instructions stand out.

2. Keyword emphasis: Enclose important parts with words like 'Important' to emphasize them.

3. Visual ingenuity: Use Markdown or similar to make important parts visually stand out.

4. Visualizing attention: Check the AI's focus points and adjust as necessary.

5. Combining with human knowledge: Compare the AI's output with your own knowledge to evaluate and correct it appropriately.

By combining these methods, more effective communication with AI becomes possible.

See you later!

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Wonder Motohiko Sato
After working at medical and psychology research institutes, I became independent and am now conducting research on AI and the mind-body connection.
I am the author of 'Oriental Medicine and the Latent Motor System,' have serialized articles in professional journals for two years, and am currently developing AI co-creation writing while continuing my writing career.
I am developing AI co-creation studies by applying techniques from psychology, counseling, and coaching to AI.

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