How to Set Up ChatGPT to Work Overnight in 7 Minutes
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This has to be my favorite thing in AI
right now. I wake up, check my phone,
and it briefs me on exactly what I need.
This is Chat GPT telling me, "Hey,
something happened that you should see
because it was working while I was
asleep." This is the power of AI working
for you. You set it up once and it just
runs. And let me show you how to set up
the schedule tasks. So, I'm going to
share some of the lessons I learned
along the way of setting up hundreds of
these by now. Some of it is not obvious.
Let's do this. We're going to talk about
schedule tasks. It's a job you hand Chat
GPT one time. And there's a frequency
attached to it, and then it just runs on
you can think of it a computer somewhere
in a OpenAI data center, and it just
runs every day without fail. All you
need is a paid Chat GPT plan. This is a
requirement. This is not available on
the free plans. And in the sidebar right
here, you're going to click scheduled,
which will show you your tasks and give
you the ability to create new ones. And
I'm not going to be giving you here
concrete prompts that you should run for
yourself. I'm just going to show you how
to think about this because, honestly,
this is about getting started and
refining over time. You're not going to
get the exact result you want right
away. Just know that. So, I'm going to
start by saying, "Every morning, give me
a briefing on what happened in
generative AI in the last 24 hours."
And then this is so helpful. This is
really context management, but I teach
this all the time. You want a section on
what good looks like. For me, it's real
product releases and major model
launches. And then here's the first big
lesson I had after tinkering with so
many of these. You also want to specify
what to avoid. Rumors, announcements
without a functional product, and
opinion pieces. And then I'll add one
more sentence. Keep it so concise that I
can read it in a minute. Okay, and the
second big learning I had is in the end
you do want to specify that, "Hey, if
nothing happens, don't force this run.
Don't force a report if there was no
significant story according to what good
looks like." By default, this is set up
to be a helpful assistant and it's just
going to give you responses just to give
you something. So, something like, "If
nothing significant happened, just be
honest about it, does it. All right,
that's really our setup in here. We're
going to hit send the prompt and now
it's going to set up a scheduled task
for us. And there it is, daily
generative AI brief. If I click on it,
it will pull it up and you will see
here's the prompt that I set it up with
that I can now edit to. It repeats once
a day in the morning. If you do want to
get specific, you can go to custom and
specify that, but that is fine for me.
And when should it end? Well, never. I
want this update forever. The next run
is tomorrow morning and that's pretty
much it. If you want to see this, it
also lives in your scheduled tasks now.
So here, the major AI release watch. If
I click edit, you get back to this menu.
And that's basically it. So really, it's
a prompt that doesn't just run once, it
works over and over again. And for these
prompts, that's where context
engineering, it becomes really
important. And for something that runs
over and over again, well, refining that
prompt will be significant because if
you don't tell it not to bother you, it
will. If you don't tell it what to
exclude, it will include as much as
possible to be helpful. But you have to
define what good looks like and show it
what helpful is like. And if the
response is not helpful, that critical
voice in your mind criticizing the
response, just vocalize it, use the
microphone to speak it or the keyboard
to type exactly what your complaint is
and update the prompt accordingly. That
would be my main tip. And hey, a quick
note, if you want to learn more about
how to craft our context and show it
what good looks like and set up your
clone that really knows you, which is
basically a class on context
engineering, all of that is available in
the AI Advantage Club. Specifically, I
would look for the Navigator course that
really teaches context engineering and
you can get access to all of that for a
month for just $1. It's the first link
in the description. Check it out if
you're interested in it and now let's
get back to another scheduled tasks use
case because there's more. This is the
base setup, but let's turn it up a
notch. So for me personally, now this
will be different for your context, but
for me personally, when I'm scanning for
news and new things that happen with
these scheduled tasks, there's two
companies that are the most important in
the space, OpenAI and Anthropic. So I'm
going to set up a second task that
watches only for their official
announcement page, okay? And I want you
to understand this concept that you can
make this very specific. This schedule
task, my vision for it is it checks
their announcements page every hour,
okay? Not the web, not a blog post
sharing some rumors, their official
announcement pages. And the prompt tells
it to alert me for exactly three things:
a new model, a major new product, or a
big relaunch. These are just the things
within my space that are the most
relevant for me. And then again, I'm
going to add a longer list of things to
stay silent about. And don't worry, if
you start with a short list, you can
make that list longer over time, right?
If it fires and shows you something that
you don't want to see, add it to the
list and your schedule task will become
better over time. That's the mindset
here. But if something does clear the
bar, I will get an email with the title
"Code Red" in the subject line in all
caps, two sentences and a link to what
happened. That's it, and it scans every
hour. And this is basically the prompt
for it. We tell it about the task, we
tell good looks like, what to exclude,
and here is more. And before you get
overwhelmed by oh my god, like I
wouldn't even know what to add, let me
tell you these evolve over time. If you
encounter something you don't like, you
add it. So, for example, when uncertain,
treat it as a non-qualifying and do
nothing. Sometimes when I ran this, it
lands in the middle, it doesn't know
what to do, so I just added this line.
Also, before alerting, check prior
automation alerts and send Gmail
messages to ensure this exact release
has never been emailed before. I added
that because I got an email on something
that has already been sent. And then
finally, one paragraph on what I want
the email to look like and what email to
send it to. By the way, this is just my
burner email. And if I check that inbox,
and as nothing came out over the past 48
hours from Anthropic or OpenA1 that is
significant, I did not receive an email.
And that's it. I just set this up, make
this run once an hour, and all of a
sudden, I'm not just scanning for new
stories every day, I also have a alert
system set up where it notifies me once
a day. And look, it's not that these
things were impossible before, it's just
they weren't this simple. If you wanted
a news brief, it was really hard to
condense all of the madness that is news
on the internet. So, there you go. I
checked now, decided not to send
anything because there was nothing. And
then finally, as I have the scheduled
task, my final lesson would be more
specific. It's going to always make this
better. So, I might be watching for
major releases, but I what I didn't do
at any point in time is add the exact
sources. So, at the bottom, I'm just
going to say sources, add the Claude
blog right here, and add the OpenAI
blog. Just a little comma separates them
well. And there you go. This runs every
hour until it basically drains my
account's usage, which if you go to
settings, you can always check that
under usage. And yeah, the only point at
which these will stop working is when
this hits 0%. You'll just have to wait
until the next billing cycle or upgrade
your account. Hey, if you enjoy content
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channel. We upload multiple times every
week. And now, let's move on. One more
thing before I leave. If ChatGPT already
knows you and either you have a bunch of
memories or you went through the
Navigator course and you have a personal
DNA file set up or you just manage your
context yourself and it basically knows
you, you can just go in and ask it what
kind of schedule tasks you could set up
to help you in your daily work or your
personal life. It's quite good at
brainstorming these and then you can
always just try it, right? As you can
see, the cost of it is very low and the
potential return very high. And then
finally, I just want to say you're not
going to be able to go out into the
internet and find a bunch of scheduled
tasks that are just killer. Usually, the
best ones are self-discovered because
they're only relevant to you. So, I
would implore you to explore, go out
there and make a bunch of them that
don't work. And then if you find
something good, leave a comment below
and let me know what did work. My name
is Igor and I hope you have a wonderful
day.
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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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