How to Create and Use Perplexity Personal AI Chatbot Agents! #95
Summary
TLDRIn this tutorial, Josh Evilsizer demonstrates the utility of Perplexity's AI agents, which are essentially pre-programmed chatbots designed for quick and efficient responses. He guides viewers through creating, editing, and using these agents to save time and enhance prompt efficiency. Examples include a Spanish proficiency agent for language practice and a data analysis agent for generating statistics. The video emphasizes the benefits of reusing and refining prompts for superior results, encouraging viewers to streamline their interactions for increased productivity.
Takeaways
- 😀 Perplexity agents are reusable, refinable, quick access prompts saved as collections, which can be thought of as pre-prompted chatbots designed for specific tasks.
- 🕒 They save time by allowing users to perfect their prompts and streamline chatbot interactions through repeated use.
- 📚 Users can create collections by clicking on the 'plus' sign in the library and filling out a title, icon, and description to make them easily accessible and understandable.
- 🔧 Editing a collection is straightforward and can be done by accessing the collection and using the 'edit' option, allowing for continuous refinement of the prompts.
- 🗣️ The video provides a step-by-step guide on creating a 'Spanish proficiency agent' to help improve Spanish language skills through a structured conversational prompt.
- 🌐 Examples are given to demonstrate the versatility of perplexity agents, including creating a weather forecast agent and a video brainstorming agent.
- 📊 For more complex tasks, such as data analysis, agents can be created to perform initial descriptive statistics on datasets with specific focuses, streamlining the analysis process.
- 🔄 The 'rewrite' function in Pro mode allows users to get different answers from various chatbots, enhancing the versatility and effectiveness of the agents.
- 🔄 Users can reuse the same prompt multiple times without worrying about token limits or context windows, ensuring consistent and efficient interactions.
- 🏆 The overall benefit of using perplexity collections is the time saved and the improved results achieved by reusing and refining prompts for various tasks and scenarios.
Q & A
What are perplexity agents and how do they function?
-Perplexity agents are reusable, refinable, quick access prompts saved as collections. They function as pre-prompted chatbots that are springloaded to respond to specific needs or tasks repeatedly, allowing users to perfect their prompts and save time through streamlined interactions.
How can one create a perplexity agent?
-To create a perplexity agent, one must navigate to the 'Collections' section in the library, click on the plus sign to create a new collection, provide a meaningful title, an icon, and a description that includes steps for future reference. Then, write the prompt that defines the agent's function and save it.
What is the purpose of the description field when creating a perplexity agent?
-The description field serves as a helpful guide for future use. It allows users to document steps and instructions for themselves, ensuring they remember how to use the agent correctly, even after some time has passed.
How does the Spanish proficiency agent work as demonstrated in the script?
-The Spanish proficiency agent is designed to engage in beginner-level Spanish conversation. When prompted with 'Ola', it responds with a question in Spanish. The user is expected to answer in Spanish, and the agent then critiques the response in English, providing feedback to help improve the user's Spanish proficiency.
What is the significance of the 'Al Roker' example in the script?
-The 'Al Roker' example illustrates a simple perplexity agent that provides a whimsical weather forecast when prompted with the word 'high'. It demonstrates how agents can be tailored to deliver specific information in a personalized manner.
How can one edit a perplexity agent after it has been created?
-To edit a perplexity agent, one returns to the 'Collections' section, selects the agent for editing, and uses the 'edit collection' option. This allows modification of all fields initially filled out, including the title, icon, description, and prompt.
What is the benefit of sharing perplexity agents?
-Sharing perplexity agents allows others to access and utilize the same prompts, potentially streamlining their interactions and saving time. It also enables collaboration and the sharing of effective prompt strategies.
How does the 'video brainstorming' agent assist in content creation?
-The 'video brainstorming' agent aids in content creation by generating video ideas based on a given topic. It takes on a specific persona and follows a structured approach to produce an outline, which includes the 'what is it', 'how does it work', and 'so what' aspects of the video.
What is the 'rewrite function' mentioned in the script and how does it work?
-The 'rewrite function' allows users to request a different response from a different chatbot model without having to rephrase the original prompt. It's particularly useful in Pro mode, where users can choose from various chatbot models like GP4, Claude, or Gemini Pro to generate a new response.
Why should one consider using perplexity collections?
-Perplexity collections should be used to save time by streamlining chatbot interactions and reusing, refining, and perfecting the most often-used prompts. This approach is akin to building a bridge once and benefiting from it indefinitely.
Outlines
🧑🏫 Introduction to Perplexity Agents
Josh Evilsizer introduces the concept of Perplexity agents, which are reusable, refinable, and quick-access prompts saved as collections. These can be thought of as pre-prompted chatbots designed to streamline interactions and save time. He guides viewers through creating a collection, providing a title, icon, and description to make future use intuitive. The example given is a 'Spanish proficiency agent' aimed at improving Spanish language skills through a structured conversation with the AI.
🔧 Editing and Using Perplexity Agents
The video demonstrates how to edit existing Perplexity agents by accessing the library and collection, then using the edit options. Josh also shows how to delete collections if needed. He provides examples of different agents, such as an 'Al Roker' agent that provides a whimsical weather forecast when prompted with the word 'high'. The detailed prompt for this agent includes a request for a fun and whimsical delivery style along with a famous quote.
🎯 Advanced Prompts and Rewriting Features
Josh explores more advanced uses of Perplexity agents, such as 'video brainstorming', where the AI generates video ideas based on a given topic. He emphasizes the importance of refining prompts over time to achieve the desired results. The video also highlights the 'rewrite' function, available in Pro mode, which allows users to generate different responses using various chatbot models. This feature is particularly useful for obtaining multiple perspectives on a given prompt.
📊 Data Analysis with Perplexity Agents
In this section, Josh applies Perplexity agents to data analysis tasks, showing how to use them for initial descriptive statistics on variables from a CSV file. He uploads a dataset and prompts the AI to focus on specific aspects, such as political leanings, to quickly parse and analyze data. The example illustrates how agents can save time and streamline the process of dealing with datasets by automating repetitive analytical tasks.
🏆 The Benefits of Using Perplexity Collections
Josh concludes by emphasizing the benefits of using Perplexity collections, such as saving time through streamlined chatbot interactions and the ability to reuse and refine prompts for improved results. He likens it to building a bridge that provides ongoing benefits. The video encourages viewers to try using Perplexity collections and to share their experiences in the comments. Josh also reminds viewers to like, subscribe, and share the video, and assures that he will respond to any questions left in the comments.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Perplexity
💡Agents
💡Collections
💡Prompts
💡Refinable
💡Quick Access
💡Iterate
💡Sharable
💡Rewrite Function
💡Context Window
Highlights
Introduction to Perplexity agents as reusable, refinable quick access prompts saved as collections.
How to create a Perplexity agent with a step-by-step guide.
The importance of giving meaningful titles and icons to Perplexity collections for quick identification.
Utilizing the description area to provide helpful instructions for future use of the agent.
Creating a 'Spanish proficiency agent' to improve Spanish language skills through interactive prompts.
Demonstration of how to use the created 'Spanish proficiency agent' with a live example.
Editing and refining a Perplexity agent to improve its functionality over time.
The option to make Perplexity collections sharable or keep them secret.
An example of creating an 'Al Roker' agent for fun and whimsical weather forecasts.
How to use the 'Al Roker' agent to get a personalized weather forecast with a famous quote.
Advanced use of Perplexity agents for video brainstorming with a detailed prompt structure.
The ability to use the rewrite function in Pro mode to get different answers from various chatbots.
Saving threads as new agents for quick access to previous queries and their results.
Using Perplexity agents for data analysis by setting up a prompt for initial descriptive statistics.
The efficiency of reusing the same prompt multiple times without concerns about tokens or context windows.
The practical application of Perplexity agents in a business or data analysis context.
Why using Perplexity collections can save time and improve the quality of prompts over time.
Encouragement to share thoughts and experiences with Perplexity agents in the comments section.
Transcripts
hi my name is Josh evilsizer today I'm
going to show you how to use perplexity
collections as agents are you watching
the Right video well do you use
perplexity would you like to save time
would you like to improve your prompts
then yes questions answered in today's
video perplexity agents or collections
what are they how do you use them how do
you create them how do you edit them
I'll provide some examples and then
we'll end with the most important
question why should you care let's jump
right into perplexity doai here we are
what are perplexity agents they are
reusable refinable quick access prompts
saved as collections think of them as
pre- prompted chatbots springloaded to
respond to whatever it is you need or do
over and over again they allow you to
perfect your prompts and save time
through streamlined chatbot interactions
but enough talking
let's let's make one shall we so I click
on library to move to move to the place
where I need to create a collection and
here we are and you'll see up at the top
Collections and so I'm going to click on
the plus sign to create our first
collection and it's a bit of experiment
so we're going to see what we get today
on live YouTube recording it's not live
you're you're watching it recorded
whatever so here's the title uh we're
going to title it Spanish proficiency
agent so give it a meaningful title that
helps you when you're looking at it what
is this thing more meaningful is the
icon give it a emoji that resonates with
you because again the point here is to
be able to create or use these very
quickly and so visuals that resonate
with you that make sense hey this is
what I use this for right make sure your
visual makes sense is all I'm trying to
say there
description all right this is where we
can get very helpful for future us so
sometimes we'll create tools and a
couple days will go by and we'll forget
how to use them or exactly how to use
them so there's a lot of space in the
Des this description area so I could
have just left it at Spanish
conversationalist right here but I went
ahead and added steps telling future me
hey these are the steps that you should
follow to use this agent and you can see
that says type Ola hit enter so I'm just
helping out future me hey this hey hey
dummy this is how this chatbot works all
right so the prompt in this instance
we're going to try and create a
conversationalist that helps us um
improve or increase or adhere to our
current level of Spanish speaking
proficiency and so what have I written
here my name is Josh when I type Ola you
respond with a question in Spanish that
someone proficient in Spanish at the
inter agency language round table or ilr
level one could understand so speak to
me in beginner
Spanish I will then attempt to answer
your question in Spanish you must then
respond by critiquing my response using
English this time and providing feedback
in English to help me improve my Spanish
proficiency I think that's it so this is
our prompt so we're going to type Ola
hit enter and and then it's going to do
this if we've done this correctly or if
if what we've done will actually work
I'm going to leave it sharable you do
have the option to leave it secret right
here if you wanted to I share these a
lot so I just often leave them sharable
going to go ahead and crit crit hit the
create
button and you can see right over here
our Spanish proficiency AI chatbot agent
has been created so we're going to click
on it just to kind of show you how it
works here it is and I'm calling this
The Prompt prompt because we already
have a prompt and I'll show you where
it's at so over here on the right hand
side we have this helpful description
Spanish conversationalist and again the
steps hey Josh type Ola hit enter and
then the AI prompt that has been applied
is what I just wrote out and it's right
here and we're we're going to go ahead
and execute
so hola enter
let's see what
happens all right Kostas all right so I
need to
respond in good
Spanish I'm getting the feedback that I
requested it worked uh I'm just going to
be fully transparent with you iterations
one two and three did not work this is
iteration five uh so four and five have
worked uh in any event uh it just goes
to prove that um if iterating on your
prompts which is what I did did to
arrive at this this prompt that
works it proves the point of why I'm
creating these things anyhow enough
padding myself on the back we're going
to go ahead and move into how we edit
these and some other examples uh so use
I've kind of showed how to create and
use use at the same time
here create went over that and then edit
so if I wanted to
edit this
agent I just again library and then the
collection and at the very top these
three dots right here edit collection
and then all the fields that I filled
out earlier are right here uh ready to
be edited so it's it's pretty
straightforward and if I wanted to
delete it same thing delete collection
so there you go there's the Soup To Nuts
and now I'm going to go over some
examples so if you got what you need
have a nice day if you want to see some
examples hang out all right so the first
example we're going to use here is
another simple one
and I call it the Al Roker and if you're
old like me you'll this will resonate
and the prompt prompt is the word high
and so I type the word high in here and
Al Roker is going to give me the weather
hello there Josh today in Columbus the
skies have decided to put on a bit of a
show with clouds performing their best
dance moves across the Horizon expect a
cozy range blah blah blah blah pause
your screen and read it if you'd like to
uh ended with a great quote by Henry
Ward beeer why did this happen well
here's what my prompt looks like so we
click on
library and we click on the aloker
prompt and then we can read the AI
prompt applied which is my name is Josh
evilsizer I live in Columbus Ohio when I
enter hello or high respond with the
weather forecast for today the high and
low temperatures and the next day that
I'm likely to see Sunshine because I
live in Columbus Ohio and it's
wintertime provide this information in a
fun and Whimsical manner and with a
famous quote that is related to all the
preceding information so that's why you
saw what you saw and again just like all
the other agents that I've created or
showed you thus far uh I gave future
Josh some instructions to REM to remind
me how to use this so I call it weather
and wisdom and then type High hit enter
to make it work and that's what we did
all right so now we're going to take a
step forward into a little bit more of
an advanced prompt sorry
agent
and this one and I keep moving I'll just
stay over here for a minute uh video
brainstorming so you may have seen me
use an example like this before with
Bard now Gemini uh similar but it works
just a little bit better here and I'll
show you why video brainstorming okay so
the description generate a video
generate video ideas based on a given
topic and the instructions from past me
to Future me here is enter topic hit
enter everything else you see there is a
cheat sheet for this videos so just
ignore that all right so we're going to
enter a topic and then hit enter and
I've not shown you the AI prompt that
would be helpful um so this is rather
lengthy um the gist here is take on the
Persona and I'll just read it quickly
and I will let you know all the prompts
I've used here they're in the Google Doc
you saw at the beginning of the video
which is linked in the video description
below take on the Persona of an
efficiency focused productivity expert
enus and Enthusiast who through the
creation of YouTube videos enjoys
teaching others how to employ Simple
Technology processes and habits to
maximize efficiency and Effectiveness
and make life a little or a lot easier
whenever possible your videos focus on
helping people use technology and
processes to complete knowledge work
related tasks most efficiently and
effectively so it's a little bit about
me and my Approach then the structure of
the video which is the what is it how
does it work the so what with
descriptions about all of those and then
your role me telling the AI a agent or
or chatbot rather Your Role so your role
is to produce an outline using the
script formula from above using the app
and any Associated processes techniques
or habits that I and we can't read it
because the screen is zoomed into to
much provide to you so there you go it's
a big
prompt and the whole point here is I can
come back and refine this over time to
get it dialed in to give me exactly the
results that I need and I can continue
to reuse it over and over again and
we'll show you how that works so we've
got this thing teed up I've got a prompt
for
it here it is the first prompt
is perplexity collections as quick
access prompts so kind of meta of course
and we hit enter and see what it gives
us I need help give me some ideas what
do you
got all right so here's the what is
it
here's the how does it work and I'm
often most interested in the examples
that it's going to give
me some real word examples these can
often be very helpful sometimes they're
not at all and what's really cool here
is when all this is said and
done we can use the rewrite function to
get a different answer from a different
chat box
unfortunately this is only available in
Pro
mode and so as soon as this is done
providing this example I'll show you how
the rewrite function works for
us and since this is taking man
this really comprehensive this time all
right I think we're almost at the end
there we go if I didn't like this I
could just jump in here and move to the
rewrite function so the default is
co-pilot I'm going to go smaller here
and with Pro I have access to
experimental gp4 Claude and Gemini Pro
so I could ask it to rewrite hopefully
you get the idea I just select one of
those and it's going to rewrite this
answer uh using one of those different
chatbots which is really cool or or I
guess what I want to also make sure I
have shared with you the whole point one
of the whole points of this is that we
can continue to reuse the same prompt
over and over again without bumping into
any concerns related to tokens or
context window so you see here I clicked
library and then I come over here back
to video brainstorming and I can start a
new and then if we scroll down we can
see the last thread that I was on so I
can either start a new here or I can
click any of the last threads and I can
simply select the edit query function
and if I didn't like the way this answer
or I didn't like the answer that was
provided here so I asked it perplexity
collections as quick access prompts I
could tweak that question to say
perplexity collections as prompts to
reuse and refine like it didn't pick up
on what I was trying to trying to do and
then I hit enter and of course I'm going
to get a a Rewritten thread uh based on
this new
prompt I'm not going to wait for this to
go through its whole Spiel there um what
I also want to highlight when I click on
the
agent or collection and I click on one
of these threads down here up here I
have the opportunity to rename that so
if I wanted to save it I could call this
um maybe the one I
liked uh click anywhere or enter and it
saves it and so now it's over here
accessible in the library and you can
move right to that answer each time all
right so I hit the rewrite function and
the edit query function and I talked
about just starting over as it relates
to reusing the same prompt over and over
again I want to give you one more
example let's say you are a business or
data analyst and you're dealing
with
Statistics metrics you kind of let's say
you're you're generally you have a lot
of data sets and you approach them in a
similar way over and over again this is
this is this is this is this example all
right so I'm just going to read this
stuff because it gets a little bit meaty
um but here it is so initial descriptive
statistics on the variables and here is
the
description initial descriptive
statistics on the variables and then in
parenthesis mean median min max
quantiles and a visualization of the
distributions of key variables uh and
then so the steps reminding me are
upload the CSV hit enter uh and then
we're going to use the experimental
model and I'm going to focus on
political iCal leanings so here we go
we're going to upload a CSV CSV file
it's got to be a CSV here it is
attach there it is so this is Brewery
data by state and their political
leanings and so like I said I want to
focus
on if I didn't have something for it to
focus on I could just call it Brewery
data and because we have to type
something right it's the prompt because
we've already prompted it down
here which I didn't cover so we'll do
that now provide the following initial
descriptive statistics on the variables
including mean median min max quantiles
and any other statistics that would
assist to better understand this data
set and the second piece a visual
visualization of the distributions of
key
variables the so what here is
again I analyze data all all day long
I'm making this up and I do the same
three step steps when I get a data set
and so by plugging these in as agents
all I have to do is upload this CSV file
enter what I want it to focus on if I
want it to focus at all or just give it
a name and then hit enter now it by
default it's going to give
me GP a result from
gp4 and so as soon this as soon as this
is
done we're going to pretend um that the
experimental model gives us results that
we like better so you can see here gp4
is the default and so in the rewrite
function I just come to the
experimental and you can see
here it would be a little tedious to
read through the stuff that it's giving
us but this has tended to be provide
better
results and so there you go dealing with
data hopefully you can see how a agent
could save you time to start parsing the
data in ways that maybe you are used to
chopping it up very quickly when you
begin with a data set in any event three
hopefully different enough examples to
help you see how a I almost said B agent
a perplexity agent or collection uh
helps you use and reuse quick access
prompts and save time uh reuse and reuse
and refine to get Superior results all
right as I I promised before uh why
should you care or the why should you
use a perplexity
collection I lost my my spot on my
keyboard sorry save time by streamlining
your chatbot interactions and reusing
refining and perfecting your most
often-used prompts to get better and
better results so anytime you find
yourself rewriting a prompt you've
written at least once before or taking
the time to craft a really great prompt
pause copy it and save it as a
collection why well it's just like a
bridge build it once and benefit
forever thank you for watching if I have
inspired you to try this please let me
know in the comments down below of
course please don't forget link goodness
in the description down below please
like subscribe share this with somebody
else that might find it useful or or
enjoy it as always if you leave
questions I will absolutely leave
answers now please go and be
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