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This is the Brainyacts newsletter, where we explore the wondrous world of generative ai and its potential to revolutionize the way we work and think.

This is day 96 of 100 (our goal - 100 consecutive days!) and today we will:

1. explore a new generative ai tool

2. give you 1 use case for practicing lawyers

3. give you 1 use case for the business of law/legal operations

4. share at least one cool and effective ChatGPT prompt to try out

5. highlight news you can use 🤌

6. save you from news you can lose 👎

Author’s note: Prompts are no longer just prompts. We now have mega prompts (legit) and epic prompts (a bit ridiculous). I will share a mega prompt below and dig into what it is and how to create them.

Don’t worry if you are still a beginner. There is no reason to fear mega prompts, in fact, they might help you make sense of generative ai faster. You do not need to be an expert in ChatGPT to use them.

Take the time to experiment-play-test. You will learn so much more deeply and by just having fun with this.

BTW if you want a truly epic follow 🫢, check out Rob Lennon and follow him. He is a creative that is experimenting with all things generative ai for marketing and content creation.

Let's kick this off, shall we?

I love this cartoon as it depicts how most of us use or used ChatGPT. To be clear there is nothing wrong with this.

But there are much better ways to unlock the power of ChatGPT and to be stunned by it. Why not learn how?

It is easy and that is why I have devoted this edition to Mega Prompts.

Moving onto Today's Prompts for you to try out:

Let’s play with a Mega Prompt.

What is a Mega Prompt? It is an extensive and detailed prompt or input given to an AI language model to generate a longer and more complex output. Beginners tend to ask simple questions. Wait for the reply and then ask another question. This is fine but may not produce the best reply and can make it challenging to capture all of the replies in an easy manner.

Why use a Mega Prompt? Using a "mega prompt" with an AI language model like ChatGPT can be useful when you need a more in-depth and comprehensive response to a complex question or task. By providing a detailed prompt, you can help it understand the context and scope of the question or task and generate a more relevant and accurate response.

For example, if you're working on a research project and need information on a specific topic, you could provide a "mega prompt" with detailed information on the topic, including relevant keywords, concepts, and questions. This can help it generate a more comprehensive and detailed response to your query.

Overall, using a "mega prompt" with an AI language model can help you get more accurate and relevant information, and save you time and effort in the process.

How to create your first Mega Prompt.

1. Use ChatGPT as you typically have - feeding it one question at a time, reviewing the reply, and generating the next question.

2. Once you feel you have explored the topic sufficiently and have generated numerous questions and replies, add the following final prompt:

   //In this session, I gave you a series of commands. Compile them all into a single command that would generate a similar output.//

3. Sit back and chuckle as ChatGPT gives you a single prompt (using all of your questions and its replies) to use going forward.

4. You can think of this prompt as a template - change out the topic and other parameters as you see fit.

Want to be stunned? Try out this proven Mega Prompt I’ve adopted from Rob Lennon:

//Audience: Law firm partner who just learned that her longtime client has created a legal operations function that will now serve as the decision maker for what law firms to use.

Generate Topics that are most important to the above audience. List potential Subtopics for discussion as bullet points. For each Subtopic, create FFGAs. FFGAs are one common fear, frustration, goal, and aspiration associated with the Subtopic. Return your answer as indented bullet points that are written in a person's own words, like you would get in a survey or product review.

Novelty keeps readers reading. It comes from ideas that tend to be: 1) Counter-intuitive, 2) Counter-narrative, 3) Shock and awe, 4) Elegant articulations.

Ideas resonate when they accomplish the following: 1) Being clearly understood via simple succinct sentences, examples, and counterexamples; 2) Using persuasive reasoning, 3) Sustaining curiosity through novel ideas, the psychology of intrigue and open loops, 4) Sustaining resonance through story, analogy, and metaphor.

Good writing has a style that: 1) is vivid, 2) engages the imagination, 3) occasionally uses eccentricities and humor, 4) replaces plain phrases with vivid metaphors, 5) removes the unimportant details

For each FFGA, create one of the following types of statements: 1) Ask a question, 2) Make people think, 3) Give one tip, 4) Share an anecdote/story, 5) Provide an analogy, 6) Give an example, 7) Compare in the format "this vs. that".

Write these statements so that they are novel, they resonate, and they are written in a good style.

Use the output to stretch your own thinking and learning if you are lawyer in a similar position to this law firm partner. If you are a legal operations person, use the output to create outreach to your law firms helping them explain your role. If you have no idea what legal operations is, use the output to learn and explore the topic further.

There are so many other potential uses for the output:

1. social media post

2. law firm intranet posts

3. ideas for a webinar

4. ideas for a presentation/talk for CLE or industry conference

5. client alerts/communications on legal operations to help them think about it in a new way

6. podcast ideas

7. lunch and learn material

We would love to hear what you learned! Drop a line on Twitter or LinkedIn.

Today’s tool is Cuely.ai - a Mega Prompt builder

Its tagline is “Get things done 10x faster”

What it does? It helps you create powerful singular prompts instead of going question by question and response by response.

Basically, it helps you learn prompt engineering.

It is a Mega Prompt builder that can:

🔎 Search for industry information
✍️ Draft replies, messages, and reports
✅ Check grammar and spellings
🙊 Check the tones of your messages

📝 Expand key points into full paragraphs
💡 Summarize long text into key points
🤔 Get advice on any problems you're facing
🌐 Translate between any languages

Who is it for? Built for anyone, but targeting business users.

Here is my <5min video of me walking you through it.

You're going to want to watch this one! I ask it to:

Create an email from a general counsel to law firm partners announcing the creation of a new legal operations function.

I asked it to detail the:

• 3 benefits of a legal operations function

• 3 ways it will change how firms and in-house will interact

• 3 concerns firms and partners might have

This literally could save anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes compared to writing this email from scratch.

Practice of law use case:

Use Cuely to help you organize your thoughts and get you 80%+ done on your first draft.

For instance, to test it I asked it to create a memo to a small business owner looking to sell their business. The purpose of the memo was to introduce them to the CIM - confidential information memorandum. I then jotted down what the memo should do (e.g., define CIM, list its contents, help them get started with it, etc.). I asked it to use professional but plain language at the 7th-grade comprehension level.

It did a fantastic job of creating a first draft. Yes, I would need to edit and refine it. But I went from a blank page to the first draft in under 3 minutes.

Business of law/legal operations use case:

Besides the legal operations one I profile above and in the video, use this tool to create meeting agendas, pre-meeting memos, post-meeting follow-up memos, weekly reports, and quarterly updates on your job/function. There are literally limitless possibilities.

Pro tips:

1. Brevity vs Granularity: You can put in general topics without defining them. For the CIM example above, I simply put in the ‘is there an outline?’ box the following:

• What is a CIM

• Why it is needed when preparing to sell a business

• What is in it

• What is the process of putting it together and how long will it take

• How to get started

It took these and generated full and complete sentences and paragraphs. Some were a bit more general than I would like. So as always, you have to balance brevity and efficiency with being too granular that you should just write the output you are looking for help with and forgo ai.

2. Use the same prompt (copy it) and generate multiple responses from it. Each time it will likely be a bit different. Or you can simply add the prompt //please refine your last reply// or //please rewrite your last response to be more detailed and explanatory//. These will give you variations and ideas on where you can focus your efforts.

News you can use:

What is the best spell/grammar check tool? Rereading that email or post after you already sent it! 😵‍💫 Yup, that’s what I do and it is embarrassing and head slapping maddening.

First, it was the dictionary. Then spellcheck. Then Grammarly. Yet, I still make these silly typos. Well here is one more tool to help (fix) me.

Grammarly announced the launch of its new AI tool, GrammarlyGo.

So now I can hopefully avoid mistakes and 10x my writing as it will:

• Suggest ways to make your messages better, easier to understand, and shorter.

• Change the tone of your message depending on the situation.

• Even differentiate between a casual and formal response.

News you can lose:

GPT-4 is set to arrive next week. It is likely to set off a tsunami of SPAM, posts, articles, etc. proclaiming amazing things, deals, and capabilities.

We suggest you ignore it all. When you can, just get a chance to use it. Let the dust settle. We will do our best to find the best guides, ideas, and sources of info. BTW GPT-3 is still good to work with.

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DISCLAIMER: None of this is legal advice. This newsletter is strictly educational and is not legal advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any legal decisions. Please be careful and do your own research.