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Getting the best out of ChatGPT

By Eran Malloch 14th August 2023 How to get a great article out of ChatGPT I see a lot of people struggling to get high quality content (articles, blog posts, etc.) out of ChatGPT. In most cases, it’s because you are not giving it better guidelines to help write your content. Most people just instruct…

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Wanting to discover who we will become

“As we live our lives, we find ourselves confronted with a brute fact about how little we can know about our futures—just when it is most important to us that we do know. For many big life choices, we only learn what we need to know after we’ve done it, and we change ourselves in…

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Chu’s Asian Restaurant, Unley

Vietnamese Chinese fusion that sings! I’ve written before about Chu’s Vietnamese Chinese restaurant in my Google Reviews. Had a wonderful evening here with three friends. Food was fabulous, the Pinot Gris was excellent, the host/owner was witty and knowledgeable. Will definitely come back, many times. ——— Months later: Have been back many times. Owner Wen…

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Mitch Vahldieck – after the eviction

More on the Mitch Vahldieck saga. Oh, boy!

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Week 13: The joke

Person 1: “I say, I say, I say, what is the secret to successful comedy?” Person 2: “I don’t know, what IS the secret to successful co-“ Person 1, interrupting Person 2: “Timing” Comedy, as with most of life, is a subjective thing. I love the tv show ‘Lucifer’, yet some staunch Southern American Christians…

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Artlan Menzies: rental nightmare

I took in as a lodger a young man who hadn’t had a good start. I thought I was doing the charitable Christian thing. Boy, was I wrong!

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Mitchell Vahldieck: review

What letting Mitch Vahldieck stay in my home was REALLY like (hint: it’s not pretty)

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Week 12: Australiana, you’re soaking in it

Strine: A wonderfully colourful way of enhancing any communication with a ‘touch of Aussie’. When I first moved to Australia, as a 10 year old, I naturally knew no ‘Aussie’. Sure, we supposedly spoke the same language, English, but there were so many parts of the Aussie sentence that completely baffled me. This was understandable,…

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Week 11: The rise of the bots, AI and misinformation

The growth of misinformation perpetrated by ‘bad actors’ is a real and present danger. Whilst Twitter has long been known as a hive of bots (and thus distrusted for years), lately Insta, Facebook, YouTube and even TikTok have witnessed the infiltration of anonymous accounts pushing far-right agendas and ideology. With the growth in the ability…

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Week 10: Tropes (or ‘The cowboy punched the cow while his wife, dressed in her gingham shirt and gingham apron, watched on with a pot of coffee in her hand’)

For a gumshoe, he was dark, brooding and dangerous. His clients, mostly women wanting to catch their husbands cheating on them so they could get the house, were drawn to him like a moth to a flame—a blowtorch of a flame. Their inhibitions disappeared under his flaming sexuality and many women felt stirrings under their…