Why AI answers improve when you paste more background

A short question gets a generic answer. The same question with your own notes gets a useful one. This week: what background to paste in, what to keep out, and three prompts to copy.

01 This week in AI

ChatGPT can now read and control your Chrome tabs to fill formsFor you: install or update the ChatGPT Chrome extension and try asking it to compare two tabs you have open at work.Google's Gemini Enterprise agent handles workplace tasks for business usersFor you: check whether your company has a Workspace Business or Enterprise subscription, as the agent is included at no extra cost.Copilot Studio agents can now hold memory and work without being askedFor you: check whether your team uses Copilot Studio or Dynamics 365, then share this with whoever manages those tools.AI labs are paying for your Slack DMs and work emails as training dataFor you: ask your employer whether your workplace messages or documents have been sold to an AI company for training.ChatGPT can show you ads targeted by your prompts, email and phone numberFor you: check ChatGPT's privacy settings and consider what personal data you share in your prompts.

02 Agent of the week

A research briefer. You give it a topic and paste your notes. It reads them, lists what is missing, asks you two questions, then writes a one-page brief. It works in a few steps, so you get a finished page, not one answer. The members prompt below gives you those steps to run in any chat.

03 Skill of the week

A background-first skill. Write down the background you paste every time: your role, your audience, your style. Save it as a skill. Claude can then use it when a task calls for it, and you stop retyping it.

In plain English: a skill is a saved set of instructions that teaches AI to do one job your way.

04 Prompts of the week

3 prompts to copy as they are, then change the brackets.

05 Tool pick

+Projects in ChatGPT and ClaudeIn both apps/Files and standing instructions

Projects in ChatGPT and Claude. Both apps let you keep files and standing instructions in one place. Every new chat in that project starts with your background already loaded. Good for work you repeat each week.

06 One term, explained

Context is everything AI can read when it answers: your question, your pasted notes and the chat so far. More relevant context usually means a better answer.