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Exercise - Advanced Tasks - Customisers

Customisers adapt the AI assistant so it provides more relevant responses based on the organisation’s needs.

Tasks

Customise the AI assistant in some way and see how that changes the responses. Here are some suggestions. Some or all of these options may or may not be available to you depending on the particular AI assistant and your subscription.

Customise the AI assistant

Customise the AI assistant to tell it something about yourself (location, interests, goals,..) and how it should respond (formal or casual, brief or verbose, neutral or opinionated,…).

For example, in ChatGPT, click on the “user head and shoulders” icon in the top right and select “Customise the AI assistant” to see a “Customize the AI assistant” dialog like this.

customise the AI assistant

This dialog has two questions. In italics I have a suggested a possible response.

Now ask a few work-related questions. Does this customisation help the AI assistant to provide more useful responses?

Explore pre-made custom versions of the AI assistant

Look at examples of custom versions of the AI assistant - these combine specific instructions and extra knowledge.

For example, in ChatGPT, click on the “Explore GPTs” item in the sidebar menu. ChatGPT then shows a page like this.

customise the AI assistant list

AI assistants may offer several pre-built custom versions. These are often organised into several groups including:

Try several of these custom versions. Do these perform better on certain tasks than the standard the AI assistant? Would any of these be useful in our work lives? In the class presentation, demo a few of these and explain their advantages.

Create your own custom AI assistant

Create your own custom custom AI assistant. This could share your particular expertise to your colleagues, for example:

M365 Copilot agent

The “Create Agent” menu option in M365 Copilot enables users to create an agent by writing a specification in English (no coding skills required!)

m365 copilot studio

Custom GPT

To get started in ChatGPT, click on the “Create” button in the top right. This will show the page to start this process similar to this.

create new the AI assistant

This will take you through a process to create your GPT. You can add starter questions, and very usefully - upload files and documents that the GPT will reference when creating a response.

For example, here is the “Configure tab” of a rather technical subject, a formatter for SQL (the language to talk to relational databases)

the AI assistant sql formatter

If you have created a GPT, there is a “Share” button to create a link so that anybody can use it. Share the link to your GPT with the class.

In the class presentations, discuss whether there is any opportunity for such a custom AI assistants, once properly designed, built and deployed, to be a useful business tool within the company.