Scheduled Tasks in ChatGPT

In case you missed it, ChatGPT can perform tasks on a schedule. This is an excellent tool for zero-code automation.

I have several such tasks:

• Daily collection of news about Bulgaria, the city where I live, infrastructure, and AI, with a specified number of news items, in my chosen format, using black/white lists of sources and filters (for example, excluding news about AI investments, otherwise that’s all that would remain).
• Daily reminder about English class, including the generation of a lesson topic and outline.
• Daily interesting strategic questions about infrastructure or AI that will impact the future but aren’t being discussed yet (for example, what infrastructure will look like in 5 years, which technologies will be used, which problems will be solved, and what new challenges will emerge).
• One-time reminders within current conversations.

Tips:

• You can view your list of tasks on the page https://chatgpt.com/tasks. There, you can also view and edit the prompt, adjust the time, and so on.
• If you want to use complex instructions for tasks, do it only through https://chatgpt.com/tasks, as the model tends to oversimplify the task when it’s being created.
• I don’t yet understand whether the conversation where I set the task is included in the task’s context or not. Therefore, I include all the context and instructions within the task itself.

In essence, this is the second small step toward creating my own Jarvis. Next up: reacting to external events.