Plan a 4-year-old's birthday run of show and rain backup with ChatGPT
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Context: Written before the party. The poster also promotes a virtual-assistant service.
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Planning her daughter's fourth birthday, a poster used ChatGPT to create the party's run of show for everyone helping, think through a rain backup plan comparing restaurants with covered space, and draft emails to those restaurants with what she needed and could spend. She reads every draft and approves what gets sent; a virtual assistant handled invitations and vendor coordination.
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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: Make a run-of-show and a rain backup for a small kids' party, and draft venue emails. Fill in before running: - Date, time and location: [DETAILS] - Guests (kids and adults): [NUMBERS] - Cake, food and entertainment plans: [DETAILS] - Budget for a backup venue: [AMOUNT] Rules: - Build a timed schedule with who does what. - Compare 2-3 backup venues with covered space on capacity, price and distance. - Draft a short email to each with our needs and budget. - I approve every email before it's sent. - If a site asks for a login, a CAPTCHA or payment details, stop and hand control back to me. - 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: A run-of-show, a venue comparison and draft emails. You'll know it worked when: helpers have the schedule and a backup venue is confirmed in case of rain.
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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: Make a run-of-show and a rain backup for a small kids' party, and draft venue emails. Fill in before running: - Date, time and location: [DETAILS] - Guests (kids and adults): [NUMBERS] - Cake, food and entertainment plans: [DETAILS] - Budget for a backup venue: [AMOUNT] Rules: - Build a timed schedule with who does what. - Compare 2-3 backup venues with covered space on capacity, price and distance. - Draft a short email to each with our needs and budget. - I approve every email before it's sent. - If a site asks for a login, a CAPTCHA or payment details, stop and hand control back to me. - 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: A run-of-show, a venue comparison and draft emails. You'll know it worked when: helpers have the schedule and a backup venue is confirmed in case of rain.
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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: Make a run-of-show and a rain backup for a small kids' party, and draft venue emails. Fill in before running: - Date, time and location: [DETAILS] - Guests (kids and adults): [NUMBERS] - Cake, food and entertainment plans: [DETAILS] - Budget for a backup venue: [AMOUNT] Rules: - Build a timed schedule with who does what. - Compare 2-3 backup venues with covered space on capacity, price and distance. - Draft a short email to each with our needs and budget. - I approve every email before it's sent. - If a site asks for a login, a CAPTCHA or payment details, stop and hand control back to me. - 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. - Confirm the backup venue's cancellation terms in writing. Output: A run-of-show, a venue comparison and draft emails. You'll know it worked when: helpers have the schedule and a backup venue is confirmed in case of rain. 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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