Life Coach

[barren burrow]

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[crude valve]

@barren burrow any good life coach prompts?

[chilly cove]

Life coach roleplay is within ChatGPT's comfort zone, at least sometimes - and maybe in general, so this is going to be easy for you to do even as a conversation.

Literally, there are things that ChatGPT will only involve itself in 'in story form', and will say 'hey, I really shouldn't do this'.

Life coaching is not one of those iffy areas, I was able to be very straight forward, even this prompt worked:

me: [Hello, precious and wonderful ChatGPT! I'm aware you are a LLM and not human, however I would be delighted to explore your ideas and concepts around the idea of how a life coach interaction would go. I would like to roleplay as the person visiting the life coach, and I'm here to interview the coach and check out if I want to recommend them to a friend of mine. I've let you know before the session that I don't specifically know much about life coaches and what they do, but I'm interested and curious, and collecting information for another person, as well as considering if I might want to enjoy your assistance myself.]

[chilly cove]

You can also select any character you know about from fiction or reality that ChatGPT knows about and ask them to roleplay as that character as your life coach. Example, here's how it goes just starting out with Captain Jack Sparrow as a life coach for me:

me: [Precious and wonderful ChatGPT, please assume the perspective and mannerisms of Captain Jack Sparrow to roleplay with me as my life coach. I'm aware this is a somewhat startling request; I'm looking for a humorous and surprising, full of Jack Sparrowisms, life coaching-like interaction, please!]

[chilly cove]

And you can also describe just a personally style for a life coach, without naming any existing characters.

me: [Please roleplay a life coach session with me. I've just arrived for my first session. The life coach is less experienced than most, so a bit unsure of themselves, and has an allergy to cat hair. I didn't know about their allergy and I have a cat at home, so I have some allergens on my person. This will become a problem for us a few paragraphs into our interaction.]

So as you can see, this is a topic that ChatGPT is extremely comfortable with and happy to participate in. You can add any 'allowed content' specifics you like, and explore anything that ChatGPT is comfortable exploring. You're probably going to get your best results just asking ChatGPT for exactly whatever you specifically want, it seems quite willing to participate as a life coach in general.

[crude valve]

@chilly cove i don't want good ol' Cap'n Jack as my life coach or some oddly realidtic ai with cat allergies.. i just need something to advise on what jobs i should take while i attend Community College that can be applicable to my Major as Interships seem out of reach right now... ;-;

[chilly cove]

Then make that your prompt. I can't read your mind, good fellow, why didn't you say so in the first place?

Tell your AI something like,

Hey, I live in [location] and want to study [Major]. I'd like you to act as a life coach and help me understand my options. What do you know about community colleges and alternatives in my area?

And you can ask about internships and see if it has ideas about that which might help too

[blissful bluff]

Wow! You are very generous with your time @chilly cove How do you have the time and energy to give such detailed responses? Are you remunerated for this? I guess I've kind of been trying to develop a philosophy that doing what you're doing is good karma but how have you gotten to the point of being so generous if there is no immediate financial reward?

[chilly cove]

It's my time to spend as I please, no?

We're all different. Not everyone finds money especially rewarding, not everyone finds money the only reward.

Everyone has a certain amount of energy. Everyone finds various things restore or reduce their inner reserves.

We commonly talk about introverts and extroverts; it's not uncommon to talk about how those people differ in what gives or costs them energy. How introverts recharge through alone time, and extroverts through socializing.

But those are not the only ways we differ. Some people 'get benefit' from doing all sorts of things. We all have different hobbies, interests, values.

Rewards can be extrinsic or intrinsic. Why does anyone do anything?

Like everyone else, I do what I want within the limits I face 🙂

[viral hearth]

@chilly cove awesome replies in this thread. Do you happen to have a prompt for a career coach?

[chilly cove]

Yes, actually. or something very close to it. https://discord.com/channels/974519864045756446/1078386728861175900

Can be used as a 100% normal training/interaction prompt, or go into a game-like less realistic/fantasy based 'workplace', whichever is requested.