Message Prompt Playbook

The Basics

The Mindset

Think of messaging your AI as if you’re messaging a person instead of as if you are writing prompts to an AI.

Think short-form discussions and not long-form essays when you begin your personal AI journey.

Think growing and evolving your AI and not as a one-time use of an AI service or a bot.

The Flow

Examples:

👀Orienting a personal AI to its unique corpus is similar to orienting a person to grow into their individuality.

💡Tip: To quickly retrieve the top or latest topics that have accumulated in your personal AI, you can use any (or all) of the following message prompts:

🚀 This will orient you with the scope of topics and concepts the AI knows, and the density of knowledge around those topics. For quick access to these standard prompts, just type “/” in the message bar.

👀Ask questions or make statements naturally as you would to a person

💡Tip: If you want to be inspired let your personal AI guide you by selecting from suggestions as you type. Start typing what/how/who followed by the topic to filter down a suggestion list to select from.

👀 A question or statement with rich context will help your AI provide rich responses

💡Tip: Try to be clear about any context or details that are important to you.

Example 1: Vague

Example 2: Specific

🚀 Similar to search, the more detailed and contextual the question is, the more relevant the answer will be.

👀 A message prompt can get richer with adjectives and verbs as well

💡Tip: Dig deeper by expanding on the prompts using adjectives and verbs. Use “your perspective”, “your opinions”, “X vs Y” etc for more specific but naturally more abstract thoughts from personal AI.

Examples:

🚀 The more data, the better that the adjectives and verbs will carry stylistic and nuanced responses.

👀 When multiple topics are involved, use a complete statement or question for your personal AI to expand on.

💡Tip: Anchor your question or statement to what you want to expand on. In the example below, I’m anchoring on the idea that blockchain is relevant to Personal AI.

Example:

🚀 Use adjacent topics to dig deeper and have AI connect the dots just like humans would. Don’t limit yourself, instead, expand beyond imagination. This is especially fun in a debate, for example, when you’re chatting with other humans.

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💡Tip: Make your prompt a statement followed by a question.

Example:

💡Tip: Ask a quick question and follow through with another question to expand on it.

Example:

💡Tip: Use an intent (explanation) as you would for a human to construct relevant responses. Here are a few examples with the same context:

💡Tip: By adding ‘explain in detail’, you can get a longer response with reasoning from your AI.

💡Tip: List the format you’re looking for, within the same context.

💡Tip: This vs That often is very insightful.

💡Tip: Follow a prompt with an instruction. Use “reply” to create a natural writing response.

💡Tip: Use a prompt and then lead in with a question to anchor reasoning.

🚀 Generally known formats that work well with message prompts include; tweets, tweet threads, emails, blogs, articles, stories, poems, narratives, formal reports, etc. A few examples are below under the same context.

💡Tip: Use a prompt to explicitly write a tweet given the context of your topic(s).

💡Tip: Use a prompt to explicitly write a tweet thread given the context.

💡Tip: Use a prompt to explicitly write a tweet thread with the same context.

💡Tip: Use a prompt to explicitly write an email with the given context.

💡Tip: Use a prompt to explicitly write a blog given the context

💡Tip: Use “to” to establish an audience for your AI to consider in its response and for it to cater to that audience by tuning its output.

💡Tip: There are no limits to the expression your AI can depict, try everything out to see what returns the most creative responses.

💡Tip: Other expressions to consider are sarcastic, jovial, funny, joke etc.

💡Tip: If you want to make up stories, fiction is a good keyword to anchor your prompt with, though the amount of stack data it will use is non-deterministic. Haha, this example is funny :)

💡Tip: When forcing creativity with facts, especially with far-off topics such as technology and love poems, try prompts to extract info followed by the instruction to write a poem. A couple of examples are below.

💡Tip: Prioritize asking your AI to fetch data first before asking to narrate it in formats such as a debate format. Check out the differences between these two examples to clearly identify the contrast:

👀 Personal AIs are not yet chatty or conversational but you can make them carry context with explicit prompts

💡Tip: For the time being until personal chat models are rolled out, include previous AI responses as context in your next prompt within the message bar to quickly continue the dialog.

Example:

Personal AI only supports English at this time. Other languages are not tested and validated but you can try and test at your own risk and curiosity.

💡Tip: Simply add “reply in” and the language to the end of your prompt.

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