“You have a meeting tomorrow.” useful reminder. pretty easy to check. “This is your most important meeting tomorrow.” ok, based on what? That second sentence is where I start wanting a lot more detail from an assistant. Maybe the meeting is with my biggest client. Maybe someone put “urgent” in the invitation. Maybe I mentioned the project six times because it was annoying me. None of those automatically means it deserves most of my attention. Here’s a hypothetical example. You have a client call and an internal review tomorrow. The client is asking about extra work. The internal review is where your team needs a decision to keep the current delivery moving. If your priority is growing that client relationship, preparing for the call might come first. If you’ve committed to protecting the existing delivery, the internal review might need you more. Same calendar. Different intention. Different useful advice. imho, this is a more interesting test of personalization than whether an assistant remembers that I like short replies. I’d like to try a small test: Give an assistant that situation and say your priority is expanding the client relationship. Ask what you should prepare first and why. Then start a separate conversation with exactly the same situation, but say your priority is keeping the delivery on track without adding scope. Compare the recommendations. Do they change for a reason you can actually point to? Does the assistant explain which fact or preference influenced the choice? Does it recognize that you might still need to prepare for both? Then add a complication: the client call is just an informal catch-up, and nobody is expecting a proposal. Does that change its recommendation? Or does it keep defending the original answer with slightly different wording? I haven’t run this as a controlled comparison, so I’m proposing a test here, not reporting a result. There’s also an obvious trap: an assistant could just agree with whichever priority you give it. I’d want it to flag a conflict when the facts warrant it. If a deadline tomorrow has a real consequence, “you said relationships matter” shouldn’t make that disappear. tbh I don’t need software to decide my priorities for me. But if it’s going to suggest what deserves my attention, I want to understand the suggestion well enough to disagree with it. What would you add to this test? Especially interested in cases where an assistant remembered the facts correctly but still misunderstood what mattered. submitted by /u/AlexWorkGuru
Originally posted by u/AlexWorkGuru on r/ArtificialInteligence