Shows how to create personalized writing styles in Claude by analyzing your own sent emails to make AI-generated content sound like you.
Transcript:
In today’s video, I wanted to show you a technique for being able to get a language model to sound more like you when it’s generating content. One of the ways that I see a lot of people using a language model is to generate content for, could be marketing campaigns, could be an email, a response to an email, a whole range of different things. However, getting the language model to actually sound like you is a challenge. Now, in Claude, we have the ability to use writing styles. There’s four writing styles included as standard, but you can create your own writing style. So I wanted to show you the key differences between them and then give you an idea as to how to create your own writing style. In this case, it’s a pretty straightforward prompt, nothing too detailed here. We’re just asking the system to generate an email that we might use on a day-to-day basis. The initial response is okay. It’s giving you what you asked for, but it’s very generic in its response. It’s very vanilla. There’s no personality. There’s no indications that you’ve actually written this message. So here’s the same prompt, but with my own personal writing style applied to it. And you can see here that the output actually sounds like something that I would write. You may not be familiar with my writing style, but it’s generally relatively brief, bullet point related. Here’s the outcomes. Here’s what we need to do next. So let’s have a look at the writing style. This is a relatively lengthy description of how I communicate. So how did I actually generate this? The process I used was a very specific prompt that was written that analyzed emails from my sent items in Outlook. So one day I took about the last 100 emails that I’ve ever written. I anonymized them and I gave them to the language model with a specialized prompt and it then in turn developed this prompt for me. That’s a pretty common aspect of using language models in a smart way. So if you’re generating content using a language model, getting it to sound like you is critical. So let me know if you want to know how to do this.
Provides an overview of Claude as a ChatGPT alternative, showcasing features like writing styles, form prototyping, and data visualization.
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Today I wanted to show you around my language model of choice, which is Claude. You’ve no doubt played with ChatGPT. Claude is an alternative put together by an organization called Anthropic. And most recently they released Claude version 3.7 Sonnet. The names of these language models are all a bit odd, but this is a combined reasoning and generative model. So that basically means it’ll do the same sort of things that ChatGPT will do. Combined with the sort of things that DeepSeek is doing in terms of reasoning. So it thinks its way through problems. There’s a lot of reasons why I like this tool. Firstly, it’s got writing styles. So whenever it’s generating content, you can tell it what type of content you’d like to generate and you can even apply your own writing style, which I’ll show you another day. There are some amazingly useful things, though, that Claude lets you do really easily. So here’s one quick example. I was trying to prototype a form for a customer’s website and I described the form that I needed. And in real time, Claude was able to actually build out that form for me so I can see what it might look like, even down to the point of having conditional logic here. Claude also works really well with images and screenshots. So for example, this was a problem I was having on a website I was trying to resolve. So I uploaded a picture of the screenshot, asked that where I should start with this problem, and it gave me some information as to where I should start looking. One of the other things Claude’s really good at is building out many programs. So in this case, I had some data from a spreadsheet that I copied and pasted in and I said, graph these numbers and extrapolate through the next six months. And Claude produced a nice visual for me here that allows me to see the actual data versus the projected data and it’s dropped it onto a graph so I’ve got it available to look at. The other great thing about Claude is that synchronizes between the desktop, the website and mobile, so you can take all of this with you too. So if you’re looking for an alternative to chat GPT, try Claude.
Shows how to use AI to build simple utility apps like temperature converters and discount calculators in under a minute.
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You’ve had one of those moments where you said, I wish there was an app for that. Well, in a lot of cases, you can use AI to build mini applications to solve problems in near real time. Here’s a really quick example. Using pure JavaScript, build a mini app that allows me to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius. About 30 seconds later, I can go and put in 94 degrees Fahrenheit, and I can see that that’s 34 degrees Celsius. Let’s make this a little bit better. I’ve added the prompt, I want to be able to convert both ways and use a slider. Another 30 seconds later, and you can see I’ve now got a slider that allows me to move up and down, and I can see the Fahrenheit and Celsius in real time. And because Claude syncs with mobile, here’s another example that has a range of different discount calculator options that I built. Next time you need to do some calculation of some sort, try using AI to do it.
