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No.
"Act as a" helps ChatGPT reduce the scope of its knowledge to just what you really need. Just because ChatGPT doesn't do that for itself when you have it create its own prompts doesn't mean it's not useful. In fact, ChatGPT might think it's more useful to always have access to all it's knowledge, but it would be wrong.
I use it and maybe it's placebo but I feel like it's helpful. Especially when using a GPT it narrows down it's focus, gives it context and can help with the tone of it's answers.
For example I told it 'you are an expert in academic psychology' for my degree studies and it knew from that command that it needed to use academic writing formatting and standards, to provide sources and to provide those sources in a specific format.
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I would say that ChatGPT is as best mediocre at making prompts for itself. Unsurprising, since its training data did not include prompt enginnering.
Wow - I didn't know they didn't know that. Good point.
No. "Act as a" helps ChatGPT reduce the scope of its knowledge to just what you really need. Just because ChatGPT doesn't do that for itself when you have it create its own prompts doesn't mean it's not useful. In fact, ChatGPT might think it's more useful to always have access to all it's knowledge, but it would be wrong.
Why would it be wrong?
Not all of it would be relevant.
Good point - using "Act as..." as a pre-qualifier to the information pulled from makes sense.
I use it and maybe it's placebo but I feel like it's helpful. Especially when using a GPT it narrows down it's focus, gives it context and can help with the tone of it's answers. For example I told it 'you are an expert in academic psychology' for my degree studies and it knew from that command that it needed to use academic writing formatting and standards, to provide sources and to provide those sources in a specific format.
Never thought to use it in GPTs - I figured they were already specific to the use case. Good idea!