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Ashwin Francis's avatar

Thanks for sharing Daria, I'm saving the prompts to try over the weekend.

I have recently set up Perplexity tasks and I'm pretty happy with the results, although I did have to refine the prompt a couple of times through trial and error.

Also didn't know you can create presentations with NotebookLM, will have to try that out.

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Daria Cupareanu's avatar

Curious how it goes with the prompts!

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Daria Cupareanu's avatar

Hey Ashwin, thanks for sharing your experience, love reading these. You’re right, good prompts are always about iteration. I do the same, it’s the easiest way to spot what’s working or not once you see the output.

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Ashwin Francis's avatar

I agree Daria, sometimes it a painful back and forth, but eventually you end up with a prompt that can deliver consistent results

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Joshua Sherk's avatar

Awesome idea for perplexity tasks, but to be honest the ChatGPT version of tasks seems to be worthless to me. I haven’t found a good case use for daily or weekly application. Not sure if this would benefit in a different way.

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Daria Cupareanu's avatar

Perplexity is more powerful for this use case with research papers, as in my experience, it’s better at surfacing web searches, or at least I’m more used to using it for this more often.

Tasks in GPT work similarly for various use cases: from getting news, to scheduling content creation (based on files in your drive, maybe), to asking it to keep you accountable for your goals or give you prompts for different things, such as personal reflection. It’s also pretty cool if you connect it to your Google account (like Gmail or Drive) and ask it to surface, for example, emails each week that you did not answer and other things like that, depending on your workflow and what’s more important to you.

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Sharyph's avatar

I like this approach to making AI practical.

The insight about voice input for context is smart...it's a simple change that makes a big difference in output quality.

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Daria Cupareanu's avatar

Right? Whenever you’re too lazy to type in your context, just use the voice feature. Super handy & useful.

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William Meller's avatar

Fantastic content!

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Daria Cupareanu's avatar

Appreciate it, William.

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Raghav Mehra's avatar

Using NotebookLM to create/curate a video is certainly something I will try. The Prompt Generator was a big support in refining my prompt. Thanks Daria 🙌

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Daria Cupareanu's avatar

They’re not the most polished videos, would probably need some extra content / B-roll to be more dynamic, but pretty amazing still what it can do with just one click.

Great to hear the prompt generator was useful 🙏🏼

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Sam Illingworth's avatar

Fantastic article. Thanks Daria. The reframing for conflict prompt was a particular highlight and I REALLY appreciate how you put an estimated time commitment to the tasks you suggest. 🙏

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Daria Cupareanu's avatar

Thank you, Sam! Really glad you enjoyed that prompt - I find it very useful to use GPT that way at times when I get stuck & can't see the forest from the trees.

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