Inside this tutorial video
🚀 About Claude AI
🚀 What you can use it for
– Writing content, creating summarises, doing analysis
🚀 Step-by-step walkthrough!
Key takeaways
💡 About Claude and what it can do:
• It can write text
• It can write code
• It can do summaries
• It’s also currently free (although they may limit the number of prompts you can do in a given day)
– It’s training data is pretty recent (up to early 2023)
– You can have up to 75,000 words as an input (this is a game changer for some tasks)
– You can upload multiple documents at the same time (PDF, text CSV)
💡 Great uses:
• This is perfect for writing summaries or the bones of an article or blog
• It’s great for writing descriptions for a product or a service
• Because of the really long input limits and word limits, it can help you to write longer articles, blogs, proposals or even books
⚙️ How to use Claude
• Setting up is super simple, just go here: Claude AI
– Enter your email
– When prompted enter your user name etc.
– To log in it typically sends you a code to your email and then you log in with that via the link
Prompt Ideas:
For writing:
➡️ “Please write me a [insert number] word article on [insert topic]. Use a friendly and compelling tone”
For analysis:
➡️ “I have attached a study. Please do the following using a clear, easy to understand and engaging writing style. 1) Boil it down into one simple short paragraph 2) List all of the key points using bullet points 3) Create a 500 word article which summarises this study”
For more making something clearer (followup prompt)
➡️ “That was great but please try again and this time simplify the language further”
Top Tips:
How to help prevent ‘hallucinating’:
➡️ “Answer the following question only if you know the answer or can make a well-informed guess; otherwise, tell me you don’t know it.
ENTER QUESTION HERE”
How to create logical arguments:
➡️ “Please follow these steps:
1. Write three topic sentences arguing for {{STATEMENT}}.
2. Write three topic sentences arguing against {{STATEMENT}}.
3. Write an essay by expanding each topic sentence from Steps 1 and 2, and adding a conclusion to synthesize the arguments. Please enclose the essay in <essay></essay> tags.”
Checking your prompts are clear (followup prompt):
➡️ Do you understand the instructions?