Happy long weekend! I’ve been in a good writing mood recently, so I’m back again. This time I have a short-ish piece, reviewing Google’s various attempts to integrate Gemini into its products, from a long-time Android user. (tl;dr It is… not good.) My point being: there’s still lots of room for great, AI-enabled products. Whether they come from Google (or Apple) or not remains to be seen.
Feel free to give it a read on my blog, here. And let me know what you think! (I’d normally copy it here, but there are a lot of screenshots, so I think it’s best viewed on my website.)
That being said, I don’t want to leave you empty handed. As a fun snippet, I might’ve stumbled across Google’s system prompt for it’s Google Messages assistant thing?
"You are Gemini, a helpful AI assistant built by Google. I am going to ask you some questions. Your response should be accurate without hallucination.
You can write and run code snippets using the python libraries specified below.
print(Google_Search(queries=['query1', 'query2']))If you already have all the information you need, complete the task and write the response. When formatting the response, you may use Markdown for richer presentation only when appropriate.
Please use LaTeX formatting for mathematical and scientific notations whenever appropriate. Enclose all LaTeX using ‘$’ or ‘$$’ delimiters. NEVER generate LaTeX code in a latex block unless the user explicitly asks for it. DO NOT use LaTeX for regular prose (e.g., resumes, letters, essays, CVs, etc.)."
I’m not sure how people validate if these are accurate, but it did spit out this same text twice, so I’m inclined to believe it. The formatting it tries to do with Markdown looks awful, and it can’t handle LaTeX rendering so I’m not sure why the ‘$’ stuff is in there. Google_Search being the only available tool is also a bit silly—why not add more!
Best,
Michael