Perplexity: Tips and news | Xyclos
I always switch between ChatGPT , Claude , Perplexity , You , Pi , Gemini , Copilot when I find myself researching something with Artificial Intelligences.
A while ago I downloaded the Perplexity App for iPhone .
And last night I had an important question to ask, so I opened Perplexity on my phone.
And since I had time, I started to discover what I had.
What is Perplexity?
It is a combination of 2 components:
Real-time Internet search engine powered by Artificial Intelligence. We can use it for searches, in a similar way to what we do in Google. It also has a Chatbot, similar to ChatGPT, where you can ask anything.
Perplexity App Interface Components
Beginning of knowledge
This section has:
At the top right, an icon to configure the app, where you can configure: Theme and application icon Voice & Language Location Push Notifications (activated by default) Help and support
Suggestions for prompts or queries
The Ask something box. .. to enter the prompt, question or query, for example: "Create me a numbered table of the countries of the American continent ordered by population"
Each AI has its own " personality " and with this in mind, I really liked the response it gave me to the prompt I made, because being " connected live " to the Internet, it provides an excellent quality of responses, which also includes the sources if we want to verify the answer.
Discover
Press the Discover icon and each news item is displayed in a format composed of an image, the title of the news item, and a summary of the news item.
In the upper right part, a personal speakers icon is displayed, which of course I pressed and it read the news to me with an interface to advance , return between news and of course stop reading.
I navigated down, clicked on an image and it popped up:
An image with an excellent design
A text describing the news
News sources
References for further research
I also discovered that they not only give the news in question, but also extend it with other related articles, which allow the content to be deepened.
And it also has a section called Ask a Question , which contains several other prompts for further investigation.
An option to copy the news to the Clipboard
An option to share the news in the Apps downloaded to the device
In general, an interesting format, very friendly , immersive and easy to use.
Library
When I pressed on Library, two buttons were displayed at the top:
An option to search for Threads
An option + to create a new query or prompt Two buttons are displayed below:
Library Contains the list of all the queries we have made to Perplexity
Collections It helps us create " folders " where we can save and organize Library queries
How to create the first Collection in Perplexity
Press the Library icon
Click the Create a Collection button
Enter:
Collection Title
Icon
Description
AI indication
Privacy
Secret
Shareable
Click the Create button
To create a collection next time:
Click Library
Click the Collections button
Click the + to add a collection
Enter the collection data
Click the Create button
Add a Thread to a collection
Then when you are at a prompt and the response from Perplexity, you click Thread, select Add to Collection , and then select the collection you want to add the Thread to.
Conclusion about the experience with the Perplexity AI App
A very easy-to-use user interface, designed to help us manage interactions and with an excellent graphic design.
And of course real-time access to the Internet, which allows us to have updated information supported by information sources.
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