🐶🤖🐶How to create a MiniMe Robot to do your job for you
🐶🤖🐶How to create a MiniMe Robot to do your job for you
The best AI in the world just got better. OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT-4o (‘o’ comes from omni, AI developers are bad at naming things). Despite the bad name, it’s really really good.
TLDR: 👉Use this CustomGPT to design your own MiniMe
This is the best time to start taking advantage of Generative AI to make your life easier. But it can be daunting and difficult at first. AI can be incredible, but it is also often awful. And there are no clear guidelines.
I have seen many people start using ChatGPT, but then abandon. I have thought about various approaches to make it instantly useful. The best and easiest I found so far is to create a MiniMe of yourself to help you with your work tasks.
This will be a ChatGPT uniquely designed to perform your work tasks. It won’t take your job. But it will save you hours of time and sweat at it. Time that you gain and can use for whatever you want.
📐Why bother designing a custom ChatGPT?
Most people try ChatGPT to help them at work. They get mixed results. Sometimes it’s great. But most of the time the default output is generic and bland. So they give up.
The problem is not with ChatGPT. It’s with generic prompts. ChatGPT data is as broad as possible.
When you ask it a generic request, it will create the most generic average response. It’s not that it cannot create a better response for you. It’s that it does not know what better means for you.
You have to tell it. How you tell it matters a lot.
Imagine having an assistant that knows your work style inside out. That's what a MiniMe GPT can do for you.
Below is a step-by-step process on how to do so based on the best research and experts in the field, such as the winner of global prompting competition and Ethan Mollick, author of Co-Intelligence, the best book right now on using AI.
🛠️How to build your MiniMe GPT
The key is to write custom instructions that always apply to your AI. In effect these will make the ChatGPT model create output which is closer to what you would create.
👉If you just want the MiniMe, click here to use MiniMeMaker and create your personal GPT in 1 minute.
If you want to understand the process, read one.
We will use the CO-STAR Prompt Framework. This is the framework used by the winner of the recent Singapore Prompt Engineering Competition.
Context: provide as much information as possible about the situation and the circumstances around your role. The more details you provide the better the output. For MiniMe, a key part of the context is to provide your job title and description.
Objective: the task for your MiniMe. If your job has multiple responsibilities and tasks, then create one MiniMe for each. There should be one clear task.
Style: think of your style of writing. Describe it for the MiniMe to replicate it. If you have trouble describing it, you could use ChatGPT to find it. Provide samples to ChatGPt and ask it to describe the style of writing.
Tone: has some overlap with style. Tone is more about the emotional tone around the output.
Audience: a very important aspect. Who are the ‘clients’ for your job. Maybe it’s actual clients of the company. Or maybe you have internal clients: colleagues who use your work. Or another audience. Think whose feedback and opinion on your work matters. Specify these clients in the audience section. If it’s companies, describe the job roles of the people within these companies.
Response: define the output format (text, code, etc.) for the LLM’s response.
⌨️How to apply these custom instructions
There are several ways.
1 CustomGPT
Easiest is if you have a paid subscription for ChatGPT. You create a CustomGPT. Name it MiniMe+‘your name’ or +‘your job role’. For example: MiniMeStrategist or MiniMeCopyrighter
Use the MiniMe Maker GPT to create your prompt instructions for your personal MiniMe.
Then copy them in the prompt instructions of your CustomGPT. Name it. Add any files that are relevant for the task.
2 Copy-paste instructions
You can use it even without a paid subscription
Use the MiniMe Maker GPT to create your prompt instructions for your personal MiniMe.
Save them in a text document.
Every time you want to use your MiniMe, copy-paste your custom prompt instructions in a generic ChatGPT. Voila, now you have a sophisticated personalized GPT.
💻How to use your MiniMe
Don’t give your tasks whole to MiniMe and then take the output as it is. You need to work with it, not to have it replace you.
1. 📄 Treat the output as a draft
What you get from the GPT should not be final. Analyze it, and then work with the GPT to make it more suited for your needs and style. How to do this: Give it feedback and ask it to make changes according to it.
Examples:
The part about X was too vague, provide concrete specifics.
Your arguments were not persuasive enough, use a persuasion technique to rephrase them.
This is not credible enough, find and cite scientific research that supports these claims.
Provide more context. There is always information that is relevant which we did not think to include from the beginning (or were too lazy).
Adjust the tone and style more towards your liking. Example: make it more informal and insert some light humor.
Reaching your desired output is a step-by-step process. But the final result is faster, and often better, than if you were to work without MiniMeGPT.
2. ➗Split the bigger task into discrete jobs to be done
Some work tasks are big and vague. To accomplish them one must plan how to do so and in the process accomplish numerous specific smaller tasks.
So you need to create a MiniMe for each of the discrete tasks. It’s your job to put them together into a cohesive product. So ChatGPT cannot do it for you, but it makes it easier than doing it all yourself.
When I worked as a Strategy Director, I created separate MiniMe GPTs for different tasks, like analyzing client briefs and finding consumer insights. Each MiniMe specialized in one area, making my job much easier and faster.
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🚀💼🎩MiniMeGPT for entrepreneurs, freelancers and people with multiple hats at work
If you are an entrepreneur, you might be thinking that this does not apply to you because you don’t have one job, you have a hundred jobs. For many employees, the same applies. You have multiple responsibilities with diverse tasks at work. I was in the same position so I understand.
Creating one MiniMeGPT in this case is not very useful. It will be kinda bad because it’s not specific enough.
Instead, you should create a MiniMeGPT for each role or task that you have.
I worked as a Strategy Director in a group of media agencies. This meant I had multiple and loosely defined roles. Some of them were under the umbrella of communication strategy. Some of the recurring tasks for this were: process and challenge the client brief, determine media target based on data on consumers, find consumer insights based on a specific type of data, find other insights relevant to communication objectives, determine the communication tasks, identify best touchpoints for each task.
One CustomGPT would not be brilliant at doing all of these. The solution is to create a MiniMe for each. This way produces good results for each task because each custom GPT becomes very specialized. You have to invest some time upfront to make all of these customGPTs. But the investment quickly pays off as these MiniMe-s accelerate your work.
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🤖💀Will a MiniMeGPT take my job?
No. Not now. Not soon. Maybe at some point in the future.
Worried AI might take your job? In reality, learning to use AI effectively will make you indispensable.
Despite all the hype, AI is not replacing people directly. Your manager will not fire you because they have an AI that does your job for you.
However, AI is replacing bits of jobs. It’s doing some tasks. More important, it’s powering people to do much more and faster than before.
This means that indirectly AIs are reducing the number of jobs. An employee using AI can do the work of several without AI (with a lot of variation of course).
Don’t worry that creating custom GPTs to do your tasks will get you fired. Worry that not learning to use AI might get you fired in the long term.
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