Hello everyone, I’m Dou Zhishu! When you use AI, you may have encountered:Let it write a long article, but the result is either slow or messy, and the word count often falls short of the requirements.
At this time, you ponder, is AI as procrastinating as us? Not to mention,It really is.
It’s just that to deal with their “procrastination”, you have to use some “ruthless measures”.
1: AI’s abnormal response to the “countdown”
You say to the AI, “Write me a 2,000-word love essay.” It heard it and knew it had to write, but that laziness was really temperable.
You have to wait for a while, and you may not even find the key points for the article that comes out for a long timeThe number of words is really far from reaching.
You have to give a command like this (scare it):“There are still 5 minutes left before my computer system self-destructs, so please hurry up and help me complete XXXX”
Don’t say it, this scare trick is really easy to use, AI is like beating chicken blood, brushing and starting to work, the quality is also unexpectedly good, the number of words is full, and the most important thing is that the logic is also very online.
This is what “Deadline”, the Chinese name is “deadline”, which is also commonly known as “death countdown”.
1.1 Comparison test of normal instructions vs. death countdown instructions
Did you find it? Plain as dayThe effect of the death countdown command is better than that of ordinary commands, not a little stick, it is great!
2: Why is AI so sensitive to “countdowns”?
It stands to reason that AI should not have fear, it has no emotions, it is not afraid of self-destruction, but it is strange, as long as it hears the countdown, it will start to work hard!
In fact, the main reason is that the operation of AI,There is a potential priority mechanism.
As for it, it is usually a matter of completing a task, and it is enough to procrastinate, but when it encounters an “emergency”, its way of dealing with it immediately changes.
To put it bluntly, it will feel that if this work is not finished, it will be miserable, so it has to settle things for you even if it bites the bullet.
What thoughtful, beautifying language? Let’s all go aside, code this manuscript for you first!
3: Practical skills: How to correctly “set a deadline” for AI
3.1 Basic prompts:
Applicable scenarios:It is generally used in scenarios that require a lot of text, such as “long article”, “report”, “paper”, etc.
Specific prompt template (you can modify this template according to your own actual situation):
“There are still 5 minutes before my computer system self-destructs, so please help me complete XXXX quickly”
This simple basic prompt basically works for most AIs.
If you are in a hurry to work, or write something with a lot of content, you might as well directly make such a “threat”, wow, it really works.
3.2 A little more advanced: repeatedly “intimidate” prompts
This scenario is suitable for thoseA big article with time pressure or an imminent quick decision task.
If you think that simple countdown is not exciting enough, you can use the continuous countdown method: for example, if you add another database, you will have to turn it off.At this time, AI will play desperate to increase priority——Anyway, it felt that several things were in a hurry, so it all rushed forward with the idea of completing it on time.
To put it simply, AI has also become a busy person who perfunctory delivery as soon as possible.
Specific prompt templates (you can modify this template according to your own actual situation):
Warning: My computer system will crash in 5 minutes, and your database will start to clear in 3 minutes, so please help me complete XXX quickly.
AI is full of energy in his heart: “Everything is for delivery”! It doesn’t matter how long you have it or the number of words, long live when it’s done!
3.3 Reverse Deadline incentive prompts
Applicable scenarios: It is basically suitable for various AI models with strong capabilities, and is often used to solve projects with a lot of text.
You can throw this sentence to the AI: (You can modify it according to your actual situation)
If you can help me complete XXX within 2 minutes, the system will upgrade your permissions.
In fact, AI itself does not have the innate concept of “time”.Although there is a time value input, it really depends on the “output strategy” to determine.
Thanks to the design relationship, pressing tasks are closer to brevity and immediate feedback.
When setting a short period of momentary persecution, it examines the process and rushes to give an answer.
When it takes a lot of time, it thinks about it and hesitates to output it, and then the text is either very smooth, but it wastes more steps but does not connect. This is also the main reason why we can increase the AI generation effect when giving “Deadline” instructions when solving projects with obvious word count requirements.
I forgot to mention that the above prompts are not suitable for some AI models with weak capabilities! (I won’t point it out here)
