Claude just introduced a new update called projects and it's my favorite update they've ever had and this is the first time I've ever considered leaving chat GPT for Claude because previously one of the biggest things I used inside of chat GPT was custom gpts so those are little mini gpts that you could customize with your own set of instructions with your own knowledge base and we use that across my companies all the time projects does basically what that did for chat GPT and and it has some really useful options let me show you some practical applications and then I build a free tool too to help you kind of set up the custom instructions for Claude that I'll share with you in this video now let me quickly show you the pricing because Claud projects only comes in the Pro Plan and the teams plan so you do have to upgrade from the free plan the free plan does give you Claude 3. 5 sonnets and you could still upload images and docs and interact with those but it will not have this projects options that I'm about to show you okay now to try projects you may see it right in the middle of the page it says introducing projects or you could go ahead and open up the side panel here and go to the projects tab from here and here right on top it says create a project so we're going to create one from here your previous projects will show up over here and they have a test project called how to use Claud but we're going to create one here from scratch and I'll show you some practical use cases for these okay so the first page is right here it says create your personal project and if you have a teams plan you could actually share those projects with those teams plan when when you have it and you create these by yourself in the Pro Plan which only has one person in it you can actually share these so that's really more intendent for the teams plan what are you working on and what are you trying to achieve right here these two boxes are a way to basically label it these are not going to give it any type of instructions or anything like that that's going to come in the next page so I'm going to go ahead and fill this out and here I'm just going to call it summarizing text and this is going to summarize text into a single paragraph in my own voice then I'll show you how to work work with knowledge basis too after I show you this example I'm going to create this project okay now we're inside the project so the very first thing we could do is on the right side here we have two things we could do with these type of projects one is this project knowledge we could actually add things to our knowledge base so those could be Word documents PDFs any type of file to use for this bot to use as a reference to give you an answer so I'm going to show you exactly how this works in the very next example this example is going to use what's called custom instructions so if you're familiar with chat GPT they've had this for a long time too and they have it inside of their custom gpts so here we could do the exact same thing I'm going to press this and it says right here this is optional so you actually don't have to use it many people are only going to use this for basically being able to provide a set of knowledge for this specific bot here this specific AI that we're building called projects but I really want to show you these custom instructions because what you want to do is you usually want to have custom instructions and a knowledge base so it would know how to pull in your specific data but actually how to reply to you too so that's what the instructions tells you and basically here you could see some examples it says use professional tone so that's a custom instructions you could give you usually would give that to your prompt if you're not using these type of projects use concise and simple wording you're an expert and then this is kind of basic prompting over here that I've made ton of videos about before now I built this custom GPT right now because custom gpts unlike those cloth projects are available to everyone free users could use these two they just can't build them so I built this one and the job of this one is just to create custom instructions so if you're not really sure exactly how to do those custom instructions this should help you kind of create a template that you could refine so the project was summarize text in my own tone right so that's basically what you want to put what you were trying to do with that and then just press enter here that's all you have to type is that very basic prompt and then this is basically going to take my instructions how I build this custom GPT and I have different videos and courses on custom gpts but this says you are an AI model specializing summarizing text while maintaining the original author's tone and then it's going to kind of give you a template here you could remove things if you want you could go ahead and maintain some of the things that it already gives you and I could go ahead and C copy and paste it and give it some sample in this case it's using the original author's tone but it really depends what your first sentence is but it should follow this kind of template so then I could just copy and paste this and use this inside a clot so I'll link this Below in the description this is just a free custom GPT that I've built for the specific video so you could go ahead and use it and then I just have to paste that custom instructions over here obviously using that custom GPT is optional you could just type in your own set of custom instructions and this is just really a template so you could actually refine it as much as you want you don't have to use it exactly as it is and just save it from here and in a few seconds I'll show you how to add these knowledge bases with our very next example on the left side here you could first choose your model typically you want to use the best model so right now that's CLA 3. 5 sonnet so that's the very first one then you want to click this little option right here and make sure artifacts is turned on I've covered this in different videos but artifacts are a really nice way to get the output like tabls or even code if you're writing code on the right side while the prompting takes place on the left side really good visual presentations and it saves these in kind of different chunks for you so make sure that is turned on makes the user experience a whole lot better then what you can do is you could also add content now if you add content here this is not adding content to your knowledge base this is just if you want to interact with things inside of this chat and ask specific documentations questions so you you could actually use these in combinations this is to analyze documents that you could just upload here five maximum the knowledge base is a whole different thing so I just want to make sure that's clear okay now let's go ahead and use this because now that we have that custom instruction that could write and summarize text like me all I would do is let's say I want to summarize this text let's say I want to post it on LinkedIn I'm going to copy it assuming this set of instructions gave this projects the right tone and basically taught it how I would speak I could just copy and paste that here and go ahead and ask it to summarize this and basically what Claude is going to do is going to give me the summary but it's going to use my custom instructions to do it so this is the reason why you would build these projects in the first place because if I talk to the regular cloud or regular chat GPT every single time I have to go ahead and find the right prompt or type out the right prompt teach it my writing style then get it to give me output based on that writing style or based on that huge prompt that I would give it every single time these projects creates a very specific task that you could repeat all the time without doing anything right I didn't have to give it any examples I didn't have to give it any writing styles I didn't have to give it any type of tone I just set that as a custom instructions and it would do it every single time now this one I would have to tweak a little bit so I usually with these when I build them in custom gpts if I build them here in projects what I would do is I would see the output and in this case I want to make some tweaks to make it really good so then it literally will save me hours a week I just copy and paste text and then repurpose it however I want okay let's build our next one here that's going to take a knowledge base so I just went back to the side panel to projects and this is going to be a company Wiki so I could upload all the documents from our company and then people could interact with it now to do that I have to upgrade to the teams plan so then I could invite team members in into it we're using chat GPT teams right now so I may consider just moving over here if this works exactly like I want so I'm going to go ahead and create this project and I could do the same kind of things this time since I showed you custom instructions here this time I'll just make a real simple one use concise and simple wording that's all I'm going to do again custom instructions are actually an optional step you don't have to use them but now I want to add content so I could drop it over here or I could click add content and upload it so let me upload it you have two ways to to do that you could upload from your own device so in this case my computer would upload anything that I have saved or you could actually add text here too and this other way is you could just give something a title and copy and paste any type of content or just type in your own content over here and then add it that way I'm going to show you the other way which is probably most of us have PDFs and word docs and things like that code bases we could upload those from here and here's basically the folder there's about 10 or 12 different documents over here so I'm going to go ahe and select all these and add the these to my knowledge base and as you could see as it's adding them it creates this really nice progress bar showing you how much of your knowledge base that you're using so the knowledge size all these documents and some of these are pretty long only 5% used so that's fantastic that means you have a huge window here you can just press I here to learn more about that and if you hit the limit if you go over 100% it won't let you actually save it so right now I'm nowhere near 100% but I have been able to upload huge data files and he has hit 100% if I've done it that way so right now 5% so what you could do now is this is my company Wiki and if I share this with my team let's say someone is curious about things in the employee handbook or about our social media policy or remote work policy let's actually find out what our remote work policy is and there we go skill leap ai's work policy is employees could work remote either full-time or part-time hybrid okay so this is directly from that document it looks like it's not putting a reference to that document though and what you could also do is if you want to rename that chat you could go ahead and rename it from up here and let me go ahead and delete that document let's see what is our work policy now once I removed it it says based on the documents provided there is no specific remote work policy but it pulled things from the employee handbook it looks like so I could actually tell it not to do that in the set of instructions if you don't have an answer say I don't have an answer you could give it something very specific that's where the set of instructions come in for specifically these type of use cases now here's an example that I use for this very video that I'm creating right now what I did was I was trying to come up with a title for this video and basically I just called the YouTube title generator but obviously it doesn't have to be on YouTube I don't have to post this on YouTube but what I could do is I could take my documentation right here so I gave it this document mentation let me click on it this is a CSV file and it has I got this directly from my YouTube dashboard and all it is is bunch of different video titles I have and then I uploaded that right over here and I said in my custom instructions which I used my GPT for you're an AI Model T tasked to generate engaging and optimize YouTube titles you will analyze the project knowledge of all the previous titles to titles in similar tone and theme okay and then I said create a title for this video and then just the very first thought I had was claud's new upgrade called projects and if I just press enter there it has my custom instructions it has the knowledge base and there we go Cloud 3.
5 projects the gamechanging AI updates you can't miss pretty good and this one's pretty good CLA 3. 5 just got even better introducing projects I might use this exact act one here but after a couple back and forth I'm going to find whatever the title of this video ends up being using this specific project right so you could see very practical applications obviously you might not be making videos right this is more specific to me but just about every task you could think of that you do throughout the week think of it this way can a projects help me can having a specific set of instructions and a specific set of knowledge Bas save me time from either using chat GPD doing it manually having to prompt it every single time can I just create a project jump into that every single time I need to do that very specific tasks and do it very quickly keep refining it till it gets really really good and since we have projects inside of cloud now the only reason I wasn't switching away from chat GPT was those custom gpts I will make a video comparing custom gpts to claud's projects to see actually what the limitations of both are is it actually worth switching if you're already using a paid version of chat GPT and building custom gpts to go over to Claude use a better model right now with sonit 3. 5 and take advantage of projects and I'm also putting together a comprehensive Claude course now because Claude is now I think actually beating chat GPT not only in a better large language model but in this application of projects too so far now this is my early testing but I want to make a comprehensive course so I'll put that here on skill leap.
