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Amanda Caswell

Stop clicking 'New Chat' in ChatGPT — staying in the same conversation gets you better answers

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For the longest time, I had one unbreakable habit whenever I opened ChatGPT. I’d immediately click New Chat regardless of the conversation. It didn't matter if I was writing an email or planning a family vacation, every single conversation started from scratch.

But after using ChatGPT every day for almost three years, I do the exact opposite. Just as you don't need to start a fresh sheet of notebook paper for every journal entry, you can often stay in the same conversation within ChatGPT. One caveat, of course, is if you are switching topics. But other than that, I've noticed the quality of ChatGPT’s responses is noticeably better because I keep the conversation going. Doing so is one of the absolute simplest ways to get more useful, nuanced answers without having to write massive, multi-paragraph prompts.

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