Comment by jonplackett
1 day ago
Why can’t the LLM just learn your writing style from your previous emails to that person?
Or a your more general style for new people.
It seems like Google at least should have a TONNE of context to use for this.
Like in his example emails about being asked to meet - it should be checking the calendar for you and putting in if you can / can’t or suggesting an alt time you’re free.
If it can’t actually send emails without permission there’s less harm with giving an LLM more info to work with - and it doesn’t need to get it perfect. You can always edit.
If it deals with the 80% of replies that don’t matter much then you have 5X more time to spend on the 20% that do matter.
> Why can’t the LLM just learn your writing style from your previous emails to that person?
It totally could. For one thing you could fine tune the model, but I don't think I'd recommend that. For this specific use case, imagine an addition to the prompt that says """To help you with additional context and writing style, here snippets of recent emails Pete wrote to {recipient}: --- {recent_email_snippets} """
They are saving this for some future release I would guess. A “personalization”-focused update wave/marketing blitz/privacy Overton window shift.
I mean, everyone knows Google reads all your emails already right?