Hey GPT Lincoln, What do I do if there’s a Hole in my Head?

Ask a President — Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

Zach Graves
4 min readMay 26, 2023
Photo by Naomi August on Unsplash

Like it or not, artificially intelligent models are here to stay. Whether you think they are going to take over earth and feed off humanity or solve all society’s issues and usher in a world of peace and leisure, my opinion is you can still have some fun with the large language models!

Let’s try shall we?

Our Abraham Lincoln is in pretty good spirits and seems to find it hilarious that you would ask him of all people about a hole in one’s head. What makes our Lincoln (powered by the model behind ChatGPT) unique and true to character? A dive into the background of Large Language Models and Prompt Engineering should help clear things up.

Background

GPT-3.5, and its successor, GPT-4, are large language models created by OpenAI. When the company released its model and a user-focused implementation in ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, the general population was able to interact with large language models for the first time. Creativity flourished, concerns arose, and the world was arguably changed in a…

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