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- [Introduction](#introduction)
- [How to Use the Personal Assistant](#how-to-use-the-personal-assistant)
- [Inner Workings and Limitations of the Personal Assistant](#inner-workings-and-limitations-of-the-personal-assistant)

# Introduction

The Personal Assistant is a feature that leverages the capabilities of the ChatGPT model, allowing users to interact in a conversational manner about the content of selected search result documents.

In this documentation, the term *prompt* (or *prompting*) is used. In the context of AI models, the term refers to user inputs, the questions asked or opinions expressed while interacting with the model.

# How to Use the Personal Assistant

The Personal Assistant can be accessed in these three ways:

1. **Directly**: One can access the Personal Assistant directly without first selecting any documents. Just click the Personal Assistant icon at the top of the search page and start prompting.

2. **After selecting documents**: Select one or more documents from the search result (use check box up in the left corner of any search result document) and press the *Open with Personal Assistant* button at the top of the search result list.

3. **From within the document preview window**: The preview window has a Personal Assistant tab that enables one to start prompting the model about the previewed document.

# Inner Workings and Limitations of the Personal Assistant

If possible, selected documents are normally uploaded in full. However, there is a model dependent size limit that may prevent the full documents from being uploaded to ChatGPT. If the amount of data exceeds the limit, the documents will be split up into text chunks and a vector search is performed to find the most relevant text chunks to upload relative the current prompt. In this situation, there will be an uneven performance depending of the type of prompt. Prompts about concrete items within the document(s) such as for instance "Please name everybody in management" will normally perform well, whereas generic prompts such as "what is the document about?" or "please provide a summary" will normally perform badly.