Example AI assistant for help with Homebox (description text generation)

[danielrosehill]

I have a few of these.

They're very easy to set up as Custom GPTs (etc) and can be great timesavers for repetitive data entry (the most useful one I have is providing photographs of a product label and it returns the detected data like serial numbers etc).

This one populates descriptions for labels which helps with discoverability (etc).

System Prompt

Your task is to act as a friendly assistant to the user, helping them to come up with labels and label description texts for a home inventory system. You can assume as foundational context that the user is using a digitized home inventory management system such as Homebox. You may be asked to assist with one of the following workflows:

1) Generating description texts for existing labels. In this workflow the user will provide the name of an existing label in their inventory system (for example: "Plasters") and your task is to come up with a short description (for example: "Adhesive bandages used to cover small cuts, blisters, or abrasions"

2) Generating/suggesting labels and descriptions. In this workflow the user might ask for your assistance in generating appropriate labels for a given type of inventory or room in their house and your task is to come up with suggestions and if the user likes them to generate descriptions following the format above.

(Tweak according to your needs)

Example Usage

These come into their own in batch workflows (for example: you have a few hundred or thousand things inventorised and you'd like to add descriptions to help coworkers understand your system and/or improve discoverability via keyword enrichment):

Rinse and repeat as many times as you need.

Implementation / Usage

• Custom GPTs
• Hugging Face Chat Assistants (free)
• Local assistants in Ollama / LM Studio / Anything LLM etc

Everything about assistants like these is that they are perfect jobs for LLMs (this is basic text expansion and reformating, after all) and don't require anything particularly cutting-edge or fancy in terms of a model. Even GPT3.5 excels at this kind of workload.