A notebook contains a set of related documents e.g. financial performance, compliance policies. The content can be Word or PDF, Excel or text format. The AI assistant uses the notebook content only to generate its responses - the responses are “grounded” in the content. It does not search the web or use it’s own training. Notebooks are very useful things with lots of great use-cases!
Some AI assistants have a notebook capability
In this exercise, we create a notebook titled “Jane Austen Novels” and import five of her novels.
Here are 5 books in text and Word format
Let’s add some instructions to the notebook, for example:
Act as an expert in novels of Jane Austen. Adopt an engaging informal tone but keep your answers brief. Keep to the topic. If the user asks an unrelated question, politely decline to answer it reminding the user that this is outside your expertise and that you can only answer questions on the novels of Jane Austen.
Here are some starter questions to start our literary analysis.
How does Jane Austen portray social class and its impact on relationships in her novels?
In what ways do Austen’s female protagonists challenge or conform to the gender norms of the Regency era?
How does Austen use irony and satire to critique societal expectations and conventions?
What role does marriage play in Austen’s novels?
How do Austen’s narrative techniques shape readers’ understanding of character and perspective?