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How to Set Up ChatGPT to Work Overnight in 7 Minutes

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This has to be my favorite thing in AI

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right now. I wake up, check my phone,

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and it briefs me on exactly what I need.

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This is Chat GPT telling me, "Hey,

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something happened that you should see

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because it was working while I was

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asleep." This is the power of AI working

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for you. You set it up once and it just

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runs. And let me show you how to set up

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the schedule tasks. So, I'm going to

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share some of the lessons I learned

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along the way of setting up hundreds of

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these by now. Some of it is not obvious.

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Let's do this. We're going to talk about

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schedule tasks. It's a job you hand Chat

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GPT one time. And there's a frequency

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attached to it, and then it just runs on

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you can think of it a computer somewhere

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in a OpenAI data center, and it just

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runs every day without fail. All you

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need is a paid Chat GPT plan. This is a

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requirement. This is not available on

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the free plans. And in the sidebar right

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here, you're going to click scheduled,

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which will show you your tasks and give

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you the ability to create new ones. And

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I'm not going to be giving you here

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concrete prompts that you should run for

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yourself. I'm just going to show you how

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to think about this because, honestly,

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this is about getting started and

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refining over time. You're not going to

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get the exact result you want right

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away. Just know that. So, I'm going to

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start by saying, "Every morning, give me

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a briefing on what happened in

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generative AI in the last 24 hours."

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And then this is so helpful. This is

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really context management, but I teach

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this all the time. You want a section on

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what good looks like. For me, it's real

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product releases and major model

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launches. And then here's the first big

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lesson I had after tinkering with so

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many of these. You also want to specify

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what to avoid. Rumors, announcements

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without a functional product, and

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opinion pieces. And then I'll add one

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more sentence. Keep it so concise that I

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can read it in a minute. Okay, and the

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second big learning I had is in the end

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you do want to specify that, "Hey, if

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nothing happens, don't force this run.

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Don't force a report if there was no

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significant story according to what good

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looks like." By default, this is set up

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to be a helpful assistant and it's just

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going to give you responses just to give

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you something. So, something like, "If

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nothing significant happened, just be

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honest about it, does it. All right,

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that's really our setup in here. We're

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going to hit send the prompt and now

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it's going to set up a scheduled task

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for us. And there it is, daily

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generative AI brief. If I click on it,

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it will pull it up and you will see

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here's the prompt that I set it up with

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that I can now edit to. It repeats once

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a day in the morning. If you do want to

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get specific, you can go to custom and

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specify that, but that is fine for me.

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And when should it end? Well, never. I

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want this update forever. The next run

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is tomorrow morning and that's pretty

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much it. If you want to see this, it

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also lives in your scheduled tasks now.

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So here, the major AI release watch. If

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I click edit, you get back to this menu.

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And that's basically it. So really, it's

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a prompt that doesn't just run once, it

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works over and over again. And for these

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prompts, that's where context

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engineering, it becomes really

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important. And for something that runs

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over and over again, well, refining that

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prompt will be significant because if

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you don't tell it not to bother you, it

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will. If you don't tell it what to

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exclude, it will include as much as

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possible to be helpful. But you have to

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define what good looks like and show it

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what helpful is like. And if the

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response is not helpful, that critical

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voice in your mind criticizing the

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response, just vocalize it, use the

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microphone to speak it or the keyboard

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to type exactly what your complaint is

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and update the prompt accordingly. That

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would be my main tip. And hey, a quick

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note, if you want to learn more about

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how to craft our context and show it

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what good looks like and set up your

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clone that really knows you, which is

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basically a class on context

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engineering, all of that is available in

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the AI Advantage Club. Specifically, I

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would look for the Navigator course that

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really teaches context engineering and

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you can get access to all of that for a

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month for just $1. It's the first link

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in the description. Check it out if

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you're interested in it and now let's

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get back to another scheduled tasks use

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case because there's more. This is the

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base setup, but let's turn it up a

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notch. So for me personally, now this

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will be different for your context, but

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for me personally, when I'm scanning for

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news and new things that happen with

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these scheduled tasks, there's two

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companies that are the most important in

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the space, OpenAI and Anthropic. So I'm

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going to set up a second task that

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watches only for their official

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announcement page, okay? And I want you

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to understand this concept that you can

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make this very specific. This schedule

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task, my vision for it is it checks

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their announcements page every hour,

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okay? Not the web, not a blog post

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sharing some rumors, their official

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announcement pages. And the prompt tells

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it to alert me for exactly three things:

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a new model, a major new product, or a

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big relaunch. These are just the things

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within my space that are the most

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relevant for me. And then again, I'm

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going to add a longer list of things to

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stay silent about. And don't worry, if

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you start with a short list, you can

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make that list longer over time, right?

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If it fires and shows you something that

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you don't want to see, add it to the

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list and your schedule task will become

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better over time. That's the mindset

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here. But if something does clear the

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bar, I will get an email with the title

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"Code Red" in the subject line in all

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caps, two sentences and a link to what

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happened. That's it, and it scans every

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hour. And this is basically the prompt

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for it. We tell it about the task, we

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tell good looks like, what to exclude,

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and here is more. And before you get

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overwhelmed by oh my god, like I

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wouldn't even know what to add, let me

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tell you these evolve over time. If you

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encounter something you don't like, you

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add it. So, for example, when uncertain,

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treat it as a non-qualifying and do

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nothing. Sometimes when I ran this, it

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lands in the middle, it doesn't know

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what to do, so I just added this line.

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Also, before alerting, check prior

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automation alerts and send Gmail

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messages to ensure this exact release

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has never been emailed before. I added

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that because I got an email on something

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that has already been sent. And then

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finally, one paragraph on what I want

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the email to look like and what email to

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send it to. By the way, this is just my

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burner email. And if I check that inbox,

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and as nothing came out over the past 48

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hours from Anthropic or OpenA1 that is

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significant, I did not receive an email.

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And that's it. I just set this up, make

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this run once an hour, and all of a

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sudden, I'm not just scanning for new

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stories every day, I also have a alert

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system set up where it notifies me once

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a day. And look, it's not that these

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things were impossible before, it's just

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they weren't this simple. If you wanted

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a news brief, it was really hard to

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condense all of the madness that is news

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on the internet. So, there you go. I

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checked now, decided not to send

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anything because there was nothing. And

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then finally, as I have the scheduled

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task, my final lesson would be more

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specific. It's going to always make this

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better. So, I might be watching for

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major releases, but I what I didn't do

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at any point in time is add the exact

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sources. So, at the bottom, I'm just

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going to say sources, add the Claude

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blog right here, and add the OpenAI

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blog. Just a little comma separates them

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well. And there you go. This runs every

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hour until it basically drains my

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account's usage, which if you go to

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settings, you can always check that

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under usage. And yeah, the only point at

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which these will stop working is when

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this hits 0%. You'll just have to wait

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until the next billing cycle or upgrade

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your account. Hey, if you enjoy content

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like this, make sure to subscribe to the

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channel. We upload multiple times every

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week. And now, let's move on. One more

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thing before I leave. If ChatGPT already

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knows you and either you have a bunch of

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memories or you went through the

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Navigator course and you have a personal

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DNA file set up or you just manage your

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context yourself and it basically knows

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you, you can just go in and ask it what

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kind of schedule tasks you could set up

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to help you in your daily work or your

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personal life. It's quite good at

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brainstorming these and then you can

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always just try it, right? As you can

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see, the cost of it is very low and the

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potential return very high. And then

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finally, I just want to say you're not

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going to be able to go out into the

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internet and find a bunch of scheduled

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tasks that are just killer. Usually, the

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best ones are self-discovered because

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they're only relevant to you. So, I

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would implore you to explore, go out

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there and make a bunch of them that

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don't work. And then if you find

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something good, leave a comment below

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and let me know what did work. My name

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is Igor and I hope you have a wonderful

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day.

Interactive Summary

This video explores how to leverage ChatGPT's scheduled tasks feature to automate personal briefings and alert systems. The presenter emphasizes that effective automation relies on 'context engineering'—specifically defining what constitutes valuable information, what should be excluded, and refining the prompts over time based on the results. By setting up recurring, targeted tasks, users can stay informed without manual scanning, with the ability to adjust parameters as needs evolve.

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