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With about £450 to spend, one person gave Gemini their current PC parts and needs. It talked them through upgrade options and tips.
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With about £450 to spend, one person gave Gemini their current PC parts and needs. It talked them through upgrade options and tips.
Gemini kept praising one photographer's pictures until they added "no sycophancy" to the prompt. After that, the critique was blunt and useful.
One person gave Perplexity everything they had about a woman being honored and asked for a five-minute tribute in the first person. The first draft was excellent and only needed small touch-ups.
One person asked ChatGPT to explain a topic, then explained it back. For an hour, ChatGPT corrected their mistakes until it finally clicked.
A poem ChatGPT wrote about one person's mother's dog went over so well that mom still keeps it around.
One reader wanted blogs about old newspaper cartoons that had run for 10 years or more and were written by one or two people. ChatGPT found seven in seconds.
Like working from an old textbook, one learner had ChatGPT make practice problems and then check the answers.
A job seeker had ChatGPT score their resume and then rewrite it to score higher. After fact-checking and tweaking it, they heard back noticeably more often.
One person asked ChatGPT for a weekly calorie plan and thought it was perfect. They still logged their food in a tracking app.
Looking for an app that shows weather along a driving route, one person asked ChatGPT. They now use the one it suggested.
One person asked ChatGPT for a 3D model of a battery storage box. It printed perfectly the first time.
A book made a surprising claim, so one reader asked ChatGPT for a source. It reported that the claim seemed to be false.
When something makes them furious, one person asks ChatGPT to rewrite the email so they sound reasonable. It works.
A job seeker had ChatGPT come up with interview questions from a job description, then practiced answering them out loud by voice.
Missed a meeting? One person has AI summarize it so they can catch up in a few minutes.
A smart home add-on stopped being maintained, so one person had Codex and Claude help make a working local copy to keep their devices running.
Before a trip, a traveler asked Gemini for brewery taprooms to visit. Some on the list had closed long ago, so they asked for links to current hours to check each one.
Wanting to learn electronics, one person asked Gemini for a plan. They got a detailed, months-long path that starts with a well-known hands-on book.
Instructions were scattered across several emails, so one person asked Gemini for exactly what to do. The key step turned out to be applying on a local rebate website.
A cook asked Perplexity to map out which recipe steps depend on others, so it was clear what to start first.
One person only half-remembered a court case and roughly when they'd heard about it. Perplexity found it, and reading the decision confirmed it was the right one.
One commenter asked Perplexity where an American engineer could look for jobs in the EU or English-speaking countries, and got a detailed list of sites.
A balanced weekly menu with a shopping list for their usual store: that's what one person got from Perplexity. Over a few weeks, they ate better and lost weight.
One person asked Claude, ChatGPT, and Perplexity how two Nikon cameras differed. All three gave great answers.
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