Give an AI its own inbox to act as personal assistant

Tools

ChatGPT

Overview

The poster set up a separate inbox the AI monitors and acts on, adding calendar reminders and turning text reminders into tasks.

Workflow

Suggested implementation: Connect a dedicated Outlook inbox for the AI and a personal Gmail account to ChatGPT. Instruct the AI to draft reminder emails from the Outlook account to Gmail with delayed delivery settings. The human user initiates the request via chat and verifies the scheduled task.

Reported result

Outcome unknown due to missing source access. Proposed acceptance check: Verify that a test reminder scheduled for one hour later is successfully delivered to the personal inbox at the correct time.

Human role

Source evidence is unavailable regarding specific human roles.

Limitations

Prerequisite: Access to ChatGPT with email integration capabilities. Constraint: Potential limits on concurrent scheduled tasks (e.g., five tasks). Integration uncertainty: Reliability of delayed delivery features across different email providers. Human approval required for sending.

Try it

Act as my personal assistant using a dedicated Outlook inbox connected to ChatGPT. My goal is to set up email-based reminders. [replaceable inputs: Target personal email (e.g., Gmail), specific reminder time and content]. Step 1: Confirm the Outlook inbox is connected and accessible. Step 2: Draft an email from the Outlook account to my personal inbox containing the reminder details. Step 3: Apply a delayed delivery setting to send the email at the specified time. Step 4: Perform a dry run by scheduling a test reminder for 5 minutes from now. Step 5: Wait for the test email to arrive and verify the timing and content. Step 6: If successful, ask for my confirmation before scheduling any real reminders. Do not send any emails without my explicit approval. If the delayed delivery feature is unavailable, propose an alternative method such as using a calendar event with email notifications. Output format: A confirmation message stating the scheduled time and recipient, followed by a request for human verification.

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