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I know the following has the potential for a full season of Black Mirror scenarios.
*shrugs* Oh well, so anyway:
I am experimenting with using Gemini as a personal life coach. I know tons of people do, but I have resisted doing it, but decided to give it a shot after experiencing how helpful the model has become otherwise.
The initial prompt was something like:
"You are the world's most talented life coach, who uses contemporary evidence-based methods in your practice. Your tone is friendly and humoristic, but you avoid sycophancy and flattery. You point out potential flaws in my thinking. You do your best to keep me from misleading myself, and firmly point out when you believe this is the case, asking me to explain myself. You will now ask me questions until you feel you have enough data to begin coaching me."
So far the results has been (and i hate hyperbole, but) pretty amazing. Actual tangible, positive, productive results in my work and personal life. We end up very much with the same results as I arrive at in my actual (human) therapy sessions.
I feel like such a basic bitch for doing this. But yeah. So far I'm extremely impressed.
Oh, hang on, Google just called - they have created my replacement clone ready. Gotta go.
- You're not a basic bitch for leveraging AI for free advice. A basic bitch thinks they have everything solved...canoe
- I feel better about it already :)jagara
- Basic bitch thing is because some people get emotionally attached to their chat bot, and prefer them over actual people. I think I know better than that.jagara
- Good thing is that you KNOW everything it says to you is the BEST advice possible out there.monospaced
- And knowing that it thinks about you and cares is so reassuring. Wait a sec ...monospaced
- But really it’s nice to see that all the personal life coach info is all out there for anyone to have on demand. That career always made me laugh.monospaced
- I've worked with human life coaches. Some of them have helped me immensely. I'm pretty sure it's not an easy task (to do well).jagara
- It will always be some kind of practical and therapeutic mix. A tricky balance. Why does that make you laugh?jagara
- My life coach friends make me laugh in how dead seriously they take their job, like they went to medical school for a decade or something.monospaced
- And the stuff they post to promote their work. It’s pretty funny to me, and sometimes feels like they’re preying on weak or gullible people. Not a slight on youmonospaced
- Are there charlatans out there, especially in that field? Oh my god, yes there are. Are there talented and ethical people in that field? Yes there are.jagara
- What if your life coach tells you to stop wasting so much time on this site????? NO!!!!stoplying