Answers to recurring questions you may have

All of the generative AI vendors have enhanced their user interfaces in useful ways.

One of my favorites are the "custom GPTs" available from Open AI's ChatGPT. They allow anyone to pre-load a set of instructions to ChatGPT that can be useful on a recurring basis.

For example, I am frequently looking for fun events to attend with my family here in the San Francisco Bay Area. Previously I would click on a number of bookmarked websites that publish calendars and lists of events, read through them all, and decide if any of them would be interesting to us.

Recently though, I built a custom GPT I called "Neil's Fun Finder" to do this for me. I told it to seek events happening in the designated timeframe that are local to me and similar to the types I enjoy attending (AI conferences, outdoor music festivals, live theater, etc). I also enabled "web search". So now I just open it in my ChatGPT app, type in something like "this weekend" and get a list of fun things we might like to attend.

Here's my current full list of these, available to anyone but pre-loaded with my preferences. So you may want to just take inspiration and make some for yourself. They're very easy to build, no coding experience required, though you do have to be on a paid Open AI ChatGPT plan to create them.

• Neil's Fun Finder
• Neil's Menu Picker - just take a photo of a menu at a restaurant and it recommends what to eat
• Neil's Restaurant Picker - give it a town or neighborhood name and it picks good restaurants
• Neil's Music Picker - discover new songs and artists based on a mood, vibe or genre
• Neil's AI News Summarizer - given a long list of news from a newsletter or website, it summarizes them
• Neil's AI Event Distiller - picks from long lists of upcoming AI events to those I'd be interested (there are multiple AI events every day here in the San Francisco Bay Area)

Enjoy!