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by ginko 939 days ago
The possibility of having a personal secretary seems almost as outlandish as having a butler. No idea how much higher I'd need to go in my current company's org chart to get to that, but it'd be pretty damn high.
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This in particular seems like a task an LLM might do a decent job at.

A prompt like

> You are esteemed computer scientist Donald Knuth's secretary. Your task is to determine which email is prioritized for immediate delivery, and which email is to be gathered and read at a later date. Label them "IMMEDIATE" or "LATER"

At my company, one must be a VP to have an admin, and even then, the admins are shared across the VPs. Only some of the C-suite have dedicated personal admins, in fact. It's a dying luxury.
Back when I was a summer intern, I shared a secretary.

At the time I had thought I was slumming it because I was in a cubicle, instead of (at my previous summer job) an office with a door.

O tempora o mores!

I hear you can hire a part time one pretty cheaply