Holy shit, could I... write thank-you emails this way? :-O

I find thank-you notes horribly difficult to write for some reason, especially when the gift is not well-aimed (which is... usually, to be honest). I often end up skimming through 10-20 sample notes online before I can grind something out. Anything to make that process easier would be worth considering.

(This is honestly the first time I've seen a personally useful application for this tech.)

I know that's not the point you are after but that sounds like such a simple problem to solve.

Why are you thanking someone for a gift? Because they thought of you and went out of your way to get you something, and you appreciate them doing that.

So just say that.

this is like, literally the plot of Her. I didn't expect to get here so fast.

A friend struggling with Christmas cards tried it and... yeah, it's great for that purpose. You still need to give it relevant context / facts, but it works.

I like that you can prompt "longer and with with more tangents".

You would probably enjoy Bureaucrats and How to Annoy Them[1] by R.T. Fishall, a nom de plume of Patrick Moore (of xylophone fame [2], maybe some astronomy too).

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/4416489-bureaucrats-h...

[2] https://youtube.com/watch?v=oO_Ckg5ott8

A few days ago, in anger, I asked ChatGPT for an email to Apple and I must admit that I finished the prompt with "The aim of the mail is to waste as much of reader's time as possible."

It was quite good, especially after a followup prompt "Not confusing enough. Make it more confusing.". But of course I didn't send it in the end.