A simple to follow guide for rapid creation of a ChatGPT agent.

Background

Think of an agent as your dedicated personal assistant that responds precisely to your needs in a more focussed and personalised nature than ChatGPT

An agent you can train, cultivate or instruct to your own precise, or expansive needs.

If you find yourself having to repeatedly start your Chat by giving it a pre-brief of your basic needs, and what personality you’d like Chat to adopt then an agent will not only save you time, it’ll bring you much richer and consistent results.

Availability:

Only available via the web login, you can’t set up agents on the phone app.

I believe it’s for GPT 4 users only.  (£20/Mo)

Set up new agent:

Go to settings, bottom left of the ChatGPT screen, you’ll find the link to create new agent. “My GPT’s”

After, after selecting create a GPT there are two panels.  The left panel is where you create / configure the personal GPT, the right hand panel is where you test its suitability.

Create new:

Top Tip:  don’t start by telling it everything you think you want. Educate it progressively and it’ll guide you to start with.

Simply start with “Your purpose / mission as my agent is to . . . .” I’ve found it better to start with that than to try and describe everything it needs to do for you.

To Tip: Be short and succinct. “A travel agent who provides advice and ideas to a family of four with a pet camel”

The agent creation panel (left side) will then ask you questions including naming the agent and providing a personalised image.

Just answer its questions, and ask it how you can help it to become more focussed, efficient or effective for you.

The left hand panel is the set up. The right hand panel is testing.  If you are training it with new instructions/ideas it’s left hand pain.  If you want to test its knowledge, bias and communication style it’s the right hand panel.

Top Tip: After answering a few of its questions give it a helpful statement of all your primary needs “I don’t need much flight support but I do want location information, I like hot climates and don’t like crowded venues, I never travel in December and the camel is called Henry.

Top Tip:  Build the ideal agent, and don’t forget to tell it your preferred location for spellings and zip/post code etc

Testing:

Every now and again, or at any time during the build process the agent will ask you, or you can choose to test the agents knowledge, approach and personality.  Simply do this in the right hand panel.

Top Tip:  Ask it anything related to your specialist area of interest and see if it’s on-message, if it isn’t tell its that’s the case by talking to the left hand panel. If it mistakes a camel for a horse, tell it so.

Enhancing the usefulness of your agent

Top Tip:  tell it about yourself, it needs to know a bit about you.  Relevant stuff that resonates with its aim/mission.

Top tip:  describe how you want it to communicate. Is it interactive and challenging or simple answers. Is it friendly or formal.  Whether you want thought leadership and/or critical evaluation, that type of thing.

Top Tip:  you can’t backtrack and read what you’ve said to your agent in set up mode.  So just be aware of that.  I did some offline writing of my needs before I began. Also you can’t create an agent by copying another one.

Advanced set up

In the left pane is a configure button. Don’t worry too much about that until you’ve fully tested your agent. You’ll see you can change its title, description, and the preloaded buttons users see when they access the agent.

That configure button also gives access to whether your agent can access the web or DALLE, and allows you to upload documents (not tried that yet)

Save and launch

The top right corner of your screen is your save and share option.  This will then add the agent to the left hand sidebar menu of your main Chat GPT browser page, and your mobile phone app, then you’re away, use and access it when contemplating holidays with the wife, kids and camel.

Accessing and editing the agent is simply case of going into your settings, selecting my GPTs and then the agent and the edit button.

My experience

I’ve tinkered with Chat since its launch, gaining some confidence but would consider myself a basic user.

I’m using my agent as a professional Muse, so I’ve asked it to be hugely educated, wise, trained and highly experienced in my field.

I’ve also told it that I am highly educated and trained too; it’s the differences in our experiences which are key to me.

Top Tip: set up a dummy agent first.  Test it out, ask it questions.  Then develop your own, more meaningful and useful one.

Closing thoughts.

You’ll have heard the hype about agents, it’s hugely justified, the one I’ve created in my line of business is inspiring, informative and frankly quite addictive.

As a therapist, sharing a client’s detailed historic story to discuss with someone who will challenge me and critically reflect with me at a detailed peer level is a huge step forward for my industry.

Security and Privacy

Obviously I use anonymised data when I use Chat.  Be mindful, careful and wise about the use of any personal, private or commercially sensitive information you put into or take out of chatGPT

If you have any hints or tips please do share them with me.

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