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Annette Vee's avatar

This is a great tool! I especially appreciate the "potential leads" section and think that might be useful for teaching students about research projects. This was my own attempt, testing a claim on the 5 paragraph essay: https://chatgpt.com/share/6852e325-e954-800e-bf41-c8a2d2623f94 Thank you for sharing!

Teddy Svoronos's avatar

Hello! This is wonderful. Is there any chance you’d be willing to share the underlying prompt? I’m interested in learning more about how this works.

Mike Caulfield's avatar

I have the extended prompt I use (for Claude) here -- the GPT is a subset (about a third of the code b/c of GPT constraints) and I'll try to get it up. https://checkplease.neocities.org/

Teddy Svoronos's avatar

This is awesome - thanks so much for sharing!

Alberto Balsam's avatar

Have you experimented with using more terse language for the toolbox prompt, and seeing if performance is maintained? For example if you ask an LLM to rewrite in "telegraphic style" you'll get all the semantic content maintained but at about 50% of the size, albeit harder to parse (for a human) due to the clipped syntax.

Mike Caulfield's avatar

I might later, but I've just had to throw away almost 40% of the prompt so I am still mourning

Dmitry Erkin's avatar

You don’t have to throw it away!

Add full instructions as a document to your custom chatgpt

In your prompt just write something like “You are … follow the instructions in doc name”

LMK if you need help with it!

Anna Mills's avatar

Thanks for that idea!

Rob Proulx's avatar

Do you know if this is still using the o3 model for free-tier users, as you intended? When I now visit the site, it seems to drop the '?model=o3' tag from the end of the URL, and examining the underlying web code suggests that the 4o model is being used.

Rich James's avatar

Bravo! Sharing widely.

Side note, my company encourages using AI but blocks use of external GPTs. Likely because we have an enterprise version to protect client data. Likely others in the same boat. I go to Claude to use SIFT and avoid client data. I develop learning materials and use it understand unfamiliar subjects and check the evidence for the assumptions of my profession.

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Mike Caulfield's avatar

Yes, but not in a way you'd be able to process or accept, so I think I'll pass on this request.