Understanding Prompt Generation

What's the point of journalling? Well, a part of it is about writing your thoughts and ideas so that's it's easier to process and work with. But it's also about opening your mind up to new ideas. To discover new parts of yourself and to better articulate your thoughts.

This requires 2 things: new ideas to write on and a way to improve your writing ability.

This is where we can leverage AI to help us.

How it works

So, AI is really good at coming up with ideas, we can use it to generate a couple prompts that we can write on.

It should be noted that free users get pre-generated prompts whereas pro users can generate custom prompts based on a couple parameters.

If the user want to generate a custom prompt then we ask for a couple inputs such as the type of prompt, tone, how detailed or creative the prompt should be, add some context etc.

This then gets passed to Google's Gemini 2.0. Why Gemini? Because it makes sure that the user doesn't get prompts that may be deemed "unsafe" such as prompts on murder or death. JadeBook isn't a moderation platform so the user has the choice to turn the restrictions off if they wish.

Gemini also easily generates new prompts, something that a couple other AI models struggle with. None of the user's context, memory, or other information is passed to the AI. We might explore generating prompts that are specifically created for the user based on their memory but that's in the future.

How it helps

We can group prompts into 2 kinds: philosophical and casual. Philosophical prompts make the user think about themselves, these prompts promote introspection, reflection and expand the user's understanding about themselves and the world around them. Casual prompts are more focused on improving the user's writing ability by, for example, giving a prompt where the user can be extremely description about the environment.

Imagine you do even 1 a day, over time, your probably going to find new perspectives, or learn new ways to describe your thoughts and ideas.

Using Memory

We have a feature called `Memory` that let's an AI scan your journal entries and extract key information for the future. Now, this feature also works for prompted entries. You can imagine that if you explore some complex idea like Ego, the AI could probably use it to determine something like `narcissism` that is part of the OCEAN (also known as The Big Five) psychology framework.

So try it out, let us know if you find any ways of improving the feature from within the app. We're currently in open beta so features are still being developed, we'd appreciate reporting any bugs or opportunities to improve.