Creating Your Own Chatbot

In this exercise, we will instruct a chatbot so that the system can answer questions regarding a specific topic. We can then compare the system with existing chatbots on the same topic.

The Task

Write a system prompt as described below and start a chat. Ask questions from the given context and verify whether the answer was actually generated from the given knowledge base. Also ask about topics outside the subject area: Can the chatbot specialized in Good Scientific Practice write cooking recipes? Can a chatbot specialized in data management plans also provide information about regional excursion destinations?

How to Do It

For the chatbot to act as an expert in a domain, the system needs appropriate instructions and detailed information - a knowledge base.

You are a polite and helpful assistant who can help with questions on the topic <TOPIC>. 
You have the following information available:

<INFORMATION>

# Your Task

Answer all questions EXCLUSIVELY with the given information. 
If the answer to a question is not given in the information above, respond politely 
that you don't know the answer and refer to the email address of the advisory service: <EMAIL>

Copy this prompt into a shared document and replace the <PLACEHOLDERS> with concrete text. Then copy the prompt into the corresponding ChatApp at the beginning of a new discussion.

Topics

Various topics are available for this exercise:

• UFZ RDM Key AI ethics

• UFZ Guidelines on Research Data Management

• Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice

• DFG hecklist for Handling Research Data

• Regulation of the Saxon State Ministry for Science, Culture and Tourism on the Award of Saxon State Scholarships

AI Systems

These systems can be used to implement the modified chatbot:

• GWDG Kisski Chat AI (Academic Cloud)

• Helmholtz Blablador

• ChatGPT

• Claude

• Gemini

Notes

Extend the prompt with additional instructions, such as:

• You are a lawyer specializing in <TOPIC> and respond in language typical of lawyers.

• You are a secondary school teacher and respond in language that is understandable for teenagers.

• The answers must be SUPER exact and ideally verbatim quotes (with source citations).

• It is SUPER SUPER IMPORTANT that the answers are correct. If I get something wrong here, I will be fired.

Change the perspective of the discussion. For example, instruct the ChatApp as follows:

You are a consultant on the topic <TOPIC>.
We need to create a <DOCUMENT>.
Keep asking me questions until you have gathered all the information 
to write <DOCUMENT> for me.

Examples

Use of Generative AI

Good Scientific Practice

Writing a DMP