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Speed up an AI assistant by asking extra questions upfront

You will learn a method to speed up an AI assistant by asking it several related questions at the same time. This guide explains how to group questions together and ignore the answers you do not need.

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When sorting customer support messages, an AI assistant usually asks one question at a time. This guide shows a faster method that asks several questions at once. A person building the software might use this to save the time it takes to send multiple messages back and forth.

The software sends a group of questions together based on the current information. For example, it might ask if a message is a bug report, how severe the bug is, and if the customer wants a refund. The software then keeps only the answers that match the actual problem.

This approach is useful for software builders who want their programs to run faster. It only works when the questions do not depend on each other. If a later question requires new information from a previous step, the software must wait and ask it in a separate request.

Key takeaways

  1. Group questions together when they rely on the exact same starting information.
  2. Ask extra questions upfront to avoid waiting for the AI assistant to reply multiple times.
  3. Set up your software to simply ignore the answers that do not fit the final category.

You cannot use this method if a question relies on new information gathered during the process. Those questions must wait until the required details are available.

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