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Calling Dr. Frankenstein: Making Custom GPT Bots

Mark C. Marino, MFA, PhD

Professor (Teaching) Writing

University of Southern California

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3 July

Playful Prompting

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https://medium.com/@markcmarino

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Art-and-Playful Intelligence Substack

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Hallucinate This!

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No One Chooses Evil Because It Is Evil; One Only Mistakes It for Happiness, The Good One Seeks

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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ELIZAgen.org

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PROMPTS

Personality: voice, tone, mood

Rubric: better and worse versions of what you want: Dos and Don’t

Objective: communication has goals. what do you hope to achieve?

Models: show the AI want you what the writing to look like.

Parameters: what details do you want included? facts? quotes? tell it.

Task: what do you need the AI to produce?

Setting: context, what is the occasion, audience?

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Perfect Tutor ex. by Jeremy Douglass

CoachTutor

ReviewerNumber2

Evaluated

by

Patti Taylor

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What’s the job?

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What’s the personality?

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Do you have any models of the output?

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What specialized language/knowledge is required?

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Retrieval-Augmented Generation

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