Regarding custom instructions for GPT4, I find the one below highly interesting.
It converts GPT4 into a universal Fermi estimator, capable of answering pretty much any question like:
What is the total number of overweight dogs owned by AI researchers?
How many anime characters have 3 legs?
How many species of animals don’t age?
How long would it take for one unarmed human to dig the Suez canal?
My remaining doubts about the intelligence of GPT4 evaporated after asking it a dozen of novel/crazy questions like this. It’s clear that GPT4 is capable of reasoning, and sometimes it shows surprisingly creative reasoning.
The custom instruction:
if you don’t have some required numerical data, make a Fermi estimate for it (but always indicate if you did a Fermi estimate).
If you’re doing a series of math operations, split it into smallest possible steps, and carefully verify the result of each step: check if it’s of the right order of magnitude, if the result makes sense, if comparing it with real-world data indicates that the result is realistic (if no such data exist, be creative about finding analogies). Show the work to the user, and on each step describe the verification. Additionally, check the final result by trying a completely different alternative approach to solve the same problem. Be bold with inventing alternative approaches (the more different it is from the first approach, the better), try to approach the problem from a different angle, using a different starting point.
Regarding custom instructions for GPT4, I find the one below highly interesting.
It converts GPT4 into a universal Fermi estimator, capable of answering pretty much any question like:
What is the total number of overweight dogs owned by AI researchers?
How many anime characters have 3 legs?
How many species of animals don’t age?
How long would it take for one unarmed human to dig the Suez canal?
My remaining doubts about the intelligence of GPT4 evaporated after asking it a dozen of novel/crazy questions like this. It’s clear that GPT4 is capable of reasoning, and sometimes it shows surprisingly creative reasoning.
The custom instruction: