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0 pointsdanuker3y ago0 comments

We could have this already.

- Have a cron job that checks email from a certain sender (CRM?). - Instruct an OpenAI API session to say a magic word to reply to an e-mail: "To reply, say REPLY_123123_123123 followed by your message." - Pipe received email and decoded attachments as "We received the following e-mail: <content here>" to the OpenAI API. Make it a 1-click action to check if there is a reply and confirm sending the message. If it does not want to send a message, read its feedback.

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vidarh3y ago

I just had ChatGPT write me a JMAP client (for Fastmail) that'd create a draft. Then I asked it to:

"Write an OpenAI API client that would take "new_message" from the above, feed it to the API with a prompt that asks the model to either indicate that a reply is needed by outputting the string "REPLY_123123_123123" and the message to send, or give a summary. If a reply is needed, create a draft with the suggested response in the Draft mailbox."

It truncated the "REPLY_123123_123123" bit to "REPLY_", and the prompt it suggested was entirely unusuable, but the rest was fine.

I tried a couple of times to get it to generate a better prompt, but that was interestingly tricky - it kept woefully underspecifying the prompts. Presumably it has seen few examples of LLM prompts and results in its training data so far.

But overall it got close enough that I'm tempted to hook this up to my actual mailbox.

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