You could certainly do what I am doing by pasting in these instructions or something like it, into every new chat session with ChatGPT, but that would be a pain.
ChatGPT on it's own doesn't do what my meta mode does -- you have to teach it how and tell it what to do.
In answer to why this is useful? It's very useful for really using ChatGPT to write content - particularly when iterating on something.
For example suppose you are working on an idea and you ask ChatGPT to write a first draft of an article.
The first draft is almost always insufficient - too short, too generic etc.
So then you ask ChatGPT to improve it or revise it.
And then you end up in a long conversation with ChatGPT, iterating many times, and it makes many different versions. Each new iteration it makes drops some good stuff and adds some good stuff.
Then finally you want to tell it to take all the good stuff from particular previous messages and combine them all into a new message.
There is no way to do that in ChatGPT currently unless you use my meta mode or something similar.
This is a very common need when seriously using ChatGPT to develop content.
This is also just one of many similar kinds of tasks that this helps with (for example - I often need to expand something ChatGPT writes - instead of manually asking it to expand 3 or 4 times, with this meta language I can ask it once using a function and it will automatically expand the content any number of times, etc.)
> And then you end up in a long conversation with ChatGPT, iterating many times, and it makes many different versions. Each new iteration it makes drops some good stuff and adds some good stuff.
>Then finally you want to tell it to take all the good stuff from particular previous messages and combine them all into a new message.
Totally agree with that use case. I want a version of chatGPT where I can highlight text specifically
ChatGPT on it's own doesn't do what my meta mode does -- you have to teach it how and tell it what to do.
In answer to why this is useful? It's very useful for really using ChatGPT to write content - particularly when iterating on something.
For example suppose you are working on an idea and you ask ChatGPT to write a first draft of an article.
The first draft is almost always insufficient - too short, too generic etc.
So then you ask ChatGPT to improve it or revise it.
And then you end up in a long conversation with ChatGPT, iterating many times, and it makes many different versions. Each new iteration it makes drops some good stuff and adds some good stuff.
Then finally you want to tell it to take all the good stuff from particular previous messages and combine them all into a new message.
There is no way to do that in ChatGPT currently unless you use my meta mode or something similar.
This is a very common need when seriously using ChatGPT to develop content.
This is also just one of many similar kinds of tasks that this helps with (for example - I often need to expand something ChatGPT writes - instead of manually asking it to expand 3 or 4 times, with this meta language I can ask it once using a function and it will automatically expand the content any number of times, etc.)