How to get the most out of Gemini: google publishes comprehensive guide

Chatbots like Google’s ChatGPT or Gemini are available to everyone, but few really know how to get the most out of them. Aware of this, Google has released a detailed 45-page manual, titled “Hint Guide 101,” to help users squeeze the most out of Gemini’s capabilities.

This guide, intended primarily for businesses, offers practical advice that can also be useful for home users who use Gemini for various queries or tasks. It focuses on a variety of professions, from executives to customer service, marketing and sales.

Google highlights four essential criteria for writing effective messages in Gemini: the sender of the message, the expected task of the artificial intelligence, the necessary context, and the appropriate formatting, including details such as character limits.

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The guide urges writing prompts in a natural way, with complete sentences, and reworking them if necessary for best results. According to Google, the most successful prompts have about 21 words on average.

In addition, Google offers additional tips at the end of the guide, such as breaking complex tasks into multiple prompts, setting constraints to get specific results, and requesting a particular tone in Gemini-generated content.

With this guide, Google aims to help users master the basics and take full advantage of Gemini’s capabilities in their daily lives.

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