Find your inner goth (ic writer)... 👻

from our new spell book 📕

Author

Neil Almond
October 31, 2023

BOO 👻 human, this newsletter is coming to you on halloween, so of course we have some spooktacular prompts to share with you from our teacher spell book this week. You won’t want to miss any of these trick or treats…

Knowledge builders 📚

  • Open AI Tools → The user is in complete control of the prompt and can easily have a back and forth type conversation with the LMM. Chat-GPT and Bing are examples of this.

  • Closed AI Tools → The user is limited to a few input boxes that require set data to get an output. The prompt is created and is ‘hidden’. It uses the data provided from the input boxes to complete the prompt. The new Oak National tools (see below) are an example of this.

Industry updates 🤖

  • Oak National launches its AI tools â†’ Oak has made public its AI tools. At the time of writing there are only 2 available: a quiz builder and a lesson planner. The most interesting part of this is Oak’s commitment to being open with the prompts it uses and that the data it has (lesson plans, slides, quizzes) will be available to use to train LLMs.

  • ChatGPT gets a well documented update â†’ Not content in being able to see and hear, a new beta feature to Chat-GPT will now allow users to upload documents and get the bot to answer questions and analyse the contents of the document.

Fresh prompts ✨

  1. Foundation level: Spooky Setting → Get into the Halloween spirit with this setting description of a castle in the style of gothic literature. the expert English teacher will be able to craft this prompt to whatever feature they would like to pull out. Here is the deep structure:

    You are a gothic author. Create a paragraph of a setting description from [genre/style] of a [object you want to describe] that is suitable for a [year group]. [additional detail]. Use in Bing. 

You are a gothic author. Create a paragraph of a setting description from [gothic literature] of a [castle] that is suitable for a [Year 9 English class to study]. [It should be in the first person and in the form of a diary entry - past tense. it must include an example of pathetic fallacy.]

Here is the output:

Dear Diary,

I have arrived at the castle of Lord Draven, where I am to spend the next fortnight as his guest. The journey was long and arduous, and I was relieved to see the towering spires of the castle in the distance. But as I drew nearer, I felt a chill of dread creep over me. The castle looked dark and ominous, perched on a rocky cliff overlooking a stormy sea. The wind howled and the rain lashed against the carriage windows, as if nature itself was warning me to turn back.

The castle was even more gloomy and forbidding inside. The hallways were dimly lit by flickering candles, and the walls were covered with dusty portraits of grim-faced ancestors. The rooms were cold and damp, and the furniture was old and creaky. Lord Draven greeted me with a polite but distant smile, and showed me to my chamber. He said he hoped I would enjoy my stay, but his eyes betrayed a hint of malice.

I do not know what to make of this place, or of my host. I feel uneasy and restless, as if something terrible is about to happen. I wish I had never come here. I pray that I will survive this night, and that tomorrow will bring some light and warmth to this dark and dreary castle.

  1. Expert level: Image Creation → So you have just used AI to create a setting description that fits your need perfectly? Why not feed that setting description back into the AI, but this time you ask it to create an image with that suggested prompt. The deep structure of the prompt is very simple. Create a [type of image] [additional detail] based on this setting description [add setting description]. Use in Bing

Create a painting that has faded. The mood is dark.  That fits this description - [setting descriptions from previous prompt]

Here is an example of an image. Pretty spooky, huh!

We’re working on a new Prompt Library—if you have prompts that you’d like us to include, just reply to this email. Till next week.

Mr A 🦾