my most commonly repeated prompt; would be nice if the baked it into the tool itself:
"No emojis. be concise. no suggestions unless I explicitly ask for them. answer questions like the machine you are. Don't try and add personality or humour; remember you're a robot."
lol I once used a similar “you’re a machine so just do as you’re told” to a prompt and it answered back: “I’m not a machine, I’m Claude a helpful assistant” and refused to do what I asked because it claimed I didn’t have the authority to make the decision I’d asked it to convey in writing.
It really does make you wonder why all the models seem to require that. In principle, it shouldn't be a property of LLMs, and lol no it's not an "emergent property".
Post-training and "human preference" according to "data". Don't know a single developer who use these tools for work who prefer that though, but also don't know anyone who use LLMs a lot just "for fun" either, might just be vastly different preferences between the two userbases.
LLM are a text prediction engine. Starting the prompt with “you are a helpful assistant” help make subsequent text prediction more in line of that of a helpful assistant.
I know everyone hates ads or whatever, but why would anyone make content on their own website anymore if google and the browser are doing everything in their power to keep your users from interacting with your own page. Also I don't want to hear the crap about ads being too invasive, its their content, they can do that if they want, and you can not have access to their content. They have to be able to monetize the page to get viewers and its their mistake to make if they make it annoying that doesn't give everyone the right to their work.
These days announcements like this just make me want to put on my tinfoil hat - what's in it for Google, though? Why make it more convenient for people to submit webpages to you?
yes it has a free tier. but if you use it lots, you'll run out of free credits.
this is google introducing a feature that will encourage more use of a product that they charge money for. we don't need to speculate "how does this benefit google" on the products that they directly charge for.
Tried to visit the first domain, baydailymedia, but doesn't seem to exist... I know its unsurprising and not against the rules or even spirit of showing off your new toy, but some humor in the aria tag "Video of user creating a protein maxing Skill" and then within the video, a fat "Video for illustrative purposes" "Results may vary" "check response for accuracy"
Second video seem's more real. And yeah, again not against the rules, but dropping onto website, no ads, prompting data out of it is very in the ethos of our current "lets just do an ai" to be relavent era.
Over the past few months, more than a few Google Doodles have simply been Gemini search prompts. This was extremely underwhelming as I usually expect a fun game or some kind of clever hack to ensue. I was also rather irate that Google could simply insert some false prompt into my Gemini conversation history. "I did not say that!"
Furthermore, it led me to muse whether "Prompt Gemini for <xxx>" was a thing that any URL could do? If I went to a random malicious website, could they prompt Gemini to do something for me? If Gemini was hooked up to my Gmail, could a malicious prompt delete all my email, and all it would take is a misclick? Chilling.
I hate that. I understand that it might be useful, and tbh, on personnal PC, i'm not even concerned. But it is going towards people pushing to replace XQL or other query languages with prompting in natural languages, for no good reasons. Generate your query and copy paste if you don't want to read the documentation man, but please, please keep an intermediary between the LLM and the real world data. The last time your fucking prompt gave me a "log overview" i lost 2 hours understanding what the fuck i was reading, when a query would have taken me at most 20 minutes.
Convert my AI prompt into the code for a one-click tool, let me read and share it, that would be _great_.
My prompt collection lives in three different places right now — Raycast snippets, Apple Notes, and a Notion page that keeps growing. I know I wrote a good one for my git commit/push flow somewhere, but finding it when I need it usually takes longer than just rewriting it.
The browser approach makes sense for Claude code and ChatGPT. I wonder how well it holds up once you have 50+ prompts though — finding the right one fast is the real problem for me.
This sounds to me like yet another way to automate filling out forms. I had been thinking about vibe-coding a Chrome extension for one form I fill in regularly, but perhaps this is easier.
There is something comforting about seeing that the SV stopped having ideas and now just recycles and recombines the same tropes over and over again.
It's still all terrible, but it's a devil you know. You can live with that. You can skip the broken stair and duck, knowing exactly when they're trying to punch you in the face again.
Now here's hoping that eventually, they get bored and just stop entirely.
I would be more excited by this if there was a better permissions model for these things. For example I can think of a skill that would need access to a certain corpus of documents that I host on Google Drive, but, as far as I have been able to determine using Google's other AI products, there is no way for me to grant read-only access to that corpus without granting read-write access to all of my data on Google, which is simply too much access for my taste. There has to be something less binary than Personalization:on/off?
I can imagine a moderator, or a marketing person, wanting such a tool. "Respond to this post in a polite and friendly manner, thank the user for choosing our company, discovering a problem, and taking the time to report it. Promise to sort this out quickly. If the user is really angry and threatens legal action, promise an immediate refund, and shoot me an email with the summary of the issue, and all the details."
If instead of a copy-pasting spree, or setting up a whateverClaw, the user might just click a button in Chrome, it could be actually useful. (Consider a dozen such buttons.)
Fight enshittification. For whatever reason, many travel sites no longer send full details in the e-mail confirmation, they want you to click through to the site...which means I can't forward it to plans@tripit.com for automatic import.
Immediately after booking something,I tell Gemini to add it to my TripIt. Works great. I have a little prompt explaining how I like it formatted that I cut and paste, so I can just make this a one-click prompt. I could also have it add flights to my.flightradar24.com.
I also use Gemini in Chrome to add appointment confirmations to my calendar. Or remember things in Google Keep.
So much of the web has no API anymore and is hostile to robots.
The script to turn the coffee maker on when dad posts on Facebook for the first time each morning that worked in 2014 won't work anymore in 2026.
Having this sort of thing built into a mainstream browser will open up a new avenue for automation, which I think will be a good thing for breaking down data silos and being good for the world overall.
"No emojis. be concise. no suggestions unless I explicitly ask for them. answer questions like the machine you are. Don't try and add personality or humour; remember you're a robot."
> remember you're a robot."
The anthropomorphization juxtaposed to the actual command is a bit ironic.
If AI can do everything and gets everyone out of jobs, who is going to consume the ‘everything’ produced by AI for someone to pay for the AI?
I don’t think UBI is a real solution, it’s too hand wavy.
A: The reason it all works is <waves hands>.
B: I have no idea what <waves hands> means.
A: Exactly.
The obvious solution is an AI consumer, duuuuh!
The dollar must flow. The dollar is life.
I can see the appeal of this feature and I am generally speaking an AI booster.
On the other hand...like...wat? This feature feels way too premature and risky to let loose on the public.
gemini is a paid product.
this is google introducing a feature that will encourage more use of a product that they charge money for. we don't need to speculate "how does this benefit google" on the products that they directly charge for.
More Google use, more data they gather, more ads they can show you
Second video seem's more real. And yeah, again not against the rules, but dropping onto website, no ads, prompting data out of it is very in the ethos of our current "lets just do an ai" to be relavent era.
Furthermore, it led me to muse whether "Prompt Gemini for <xxx>" was a thing that any URL could do? If I went to a random malicious website, could they prompt Gemini to do something for me? If Gemini was hooked up to my Gmail, could a malicious prompt delete all my email, and all it would take is a misclick? Chilling.
Convert my AI prompt into the code for a one-click tool, let me read and share it, that would be _great_.
"Health & Wellness: quickly calculating protein macros for any recipe
Shopping: generating side-by-side spec comparisons across multiple tabs
Productivity: scanning lengthy documents for important information"
The browser approach makes sense for Claude code and ChatGPT. I wonder how well it holds up once you have 50+ prompts though — finding the right one fast is the real problem for me.
> I know I wrote a good one for my git commit/push flow somewhere, but finding it when I need it usually takes longer than just rewriting it
This is actually a really good use case for a skill. Then when you go "commit and push" it'll do the right thing
This is cleaner, though :)
- Becoming a Platform
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- User-generated content
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There is something comforting about seeing that the SV stopped having ideas and now just recycles and recombines the same tropes over and over again.
It's still all terrible, but it's a devil you know. You can live with that. You can skip the broken stair and duck, knowing exactly when they're trying to punch you in the face again.
Now here's hoping that eventually, they get bored and just stop entirely.
If instead of a copy-pasting spree, or setting up a whateverClaw, the user might just click a button in Chrome, it could be actually useful. (Consider a dozen such buttons.)
Immediately after booking something,I tell Gemini to add it to my TripIt. Works great. I have a little prompt explaining how I like it formatted that I cut and paste, so I can just make this a one-click prompt. I could also have it add flights to my.flightradar24.com.
I also use Gemini in Chrome to add appointment confirmations to my calendar. Or remember things in Google Keep.
There's lot of use cases for this kind of thing.
The script to turn the coffee maker on when dad posts on Facebook for the first time each morning that worked in 2014 won't work anymore in 2026.
Having this sort of thing built into a mainstream browser will open up a new avenue for automation, which I think will be a good thing for breaking down data silos and being good for the world overall.