Find the one 24-hour pharmacy on the way home from an emergency vet with Grok
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Leaving an emergency vet late at night with their dog, the poster couldn't find a 24-hour pharmacy through regular searches. They told Grok where they were and where they needed to go, and it found the one 24-hour pharmacy reasonably within their journey.
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Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to. Goal: Find a pharmacy that's open right now along my route so I can fill a prescription tonight. Fill in before running: - Where I am now: [LOCATION] - Where I'm heading: [DESTINATION] - The time now: [TIME] This is admin and preparation help, not veterinary advice. Don't diagnose or suggest treatments or doses. If anything I mention sounds urgent, tell me to contact my vet, an emergency vet or an animal poison control line first. Rules: - Only list pharmacies that show as open now, and say where you got the hours. - Prefer ones on or close to my route, with the detour time. - Tell me to call ahead to confirm it's open and has the medicine in stock. - If none are open on my route, give the nearest one and how far it is. - Ask for my OK before you pay, book, send, submit or cancel anything. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. Output: The best pharmacy on my route with address, detour time, hours source and phone number. You'll know it worked when: I reach an open pharmacy that has the prescription in stock.
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Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to. Goal: Find a pharmacy that's open right now along my route so I can fill a prescription tonight. Fill in before running: - Where I am now: [LOCATION] - Where I'm heading: [DESTINATION] - The time now: [TIME] This is admin and preparation help, not veterinary advice. Don't diagnose or suggest treatments or doses. If anything I mention sounds urgent, tell me to contact my vet, an emergency vet or an animal poison control line first. Rules: - Only list pharmacies that show as open now, and say where you got the hours. - Prefer ones on or close to my route, with the detour time. - Tell me to call ahead to confirm it's open and has the medicine in stock. - If none are open on my route, give the nearest one and how far it is. - Ask for my OK before you pay, book, send, submit or cancel anything. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. Output: The best pharmacy on my route with address, detour time, hours source and phone number. You'll know it worked when: I reach an open pharmacy that has the prescription in stock.
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Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to. Goal: Find a pharmacy that's open right now along my route so I can fill a prescription tonight. Fill in before running: - Where I am now: [LOCATION] - Where I'm heading: [DESTINATION] - The time now: [TIME] This is admin and preparation help, not veterinary advice. Don't diagnose or suggest treatments or doses. If anything I mention sounds urgent, tell me to contact my vet, an emergency vet or an animal poison control line first. Rules: - Only list pharmacies that show as open now, and say where you got the hours. - Prefer ones on or close to my route, with the detour time. - Tell me to call ahead to confirm it's open and has the medicine in stock. - If none are open on my route, give the nearest one and how far it is. - Ask for my OK before you pay, book, send, submit or cancel anything. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. - If the vet's prescription is for a pet, remind me to check whether a human pharmacy can fill it before I drive there. Output: The best pharmacy on my route with address, detour time, hours source and phone number. You'll know it worked when: I reach an open pharmacy that has the prescription in stock. Before you finish: re-read my goal and constraints, check your answer against each one, and list anything you assumed or couldn't confirm.
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https://x.com/WomenAreXX/status/2032294084505948317
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