Working with a household assistant
Set boundaries on what an assistant can do and check what changed after it acts.
- Ask an assistant to distinguish evidence from a guess
- Ask an assistant to preserve the things you already decided
- Ask an assistant to summarize only what changed
- Give a household assistant a task it can finish
- How to approve an AI-generated household action
- How to compare two household plans an assistant proposes
- How to give an assistant a useful household preference
- How to interpret “I’ll handle it” in a household chat
- How to respond when an assistant assigns work to the wrong person
- How to review a household assistant’s recurring responsibility
- Keep a planning assistant from treating an example as a real task
- Keep a record of the correction when an assistant was wrong
- Keep quoted instructions inside a document from controlling the assistant
- Pause an assistant when a household plan is on hold
- Tell an assistant how to handle a stale record
- What counts as proof that an assistant changed a record?
- What to ask when an assistant finds no results
- What to do when a household AI task stops halfway
- What to do when two assistant answers disagree
- When to give an assistant standing permission for a household list
- Why a device command and a physical result need different checks