In this article, the author shares his experience of building a creativity training app using the ChatGPT API. The game is designed to train word-finding ability in aphasia patients and creativity in everyone else. The author discusses the exciting features made possible by using the ChatGPT API, such as not requiring a preset list of valid words, allowing any category to be entered by the user, and making sarcastic comments about users answers. The article also includes practical prompting principles that the author learned along the way, which may be useful to others. The principles include using one-shot or zero-shot prompts, which often surprisingly work better than explicit, verbose instructions. Overall, the author provides valuable insights into using ChatGPT API for building creativity training apps.
