00:00:03Oxygen's new AI Positron Assistant addon
provides a powerful tool to help writers
00:00:09use AI-generated content. It contributes
an AI Positron Assistant side view that
00:00:15contains a variety of AI-powered actions.
Some of them have a settings icon to configure
00:00:20options for the particular action.
This action instructs the AI to generate
00:00:26a short description for the current topic.
You can see the response from the AI server in
00:00:31the Chat view on the right and actions are
available under each response depending on
00:00:36the action, for instance, you could preview
the response, or copy it to the clipboard,
00:00:42or "insert" to add the AI-generated
short description in the document.
00:00:48Next, we'll intentionally
create a grammar problem ...
00:00:56and select the paragraph ... and then we
can use the "Correct Grammar" action.
00:01:05This time we'll click "preview" ... and it opens
a file comparison where you can clearly see the
00:01:11changes that the AI suggested ... and if you
agree with the changes, you can apply them.
00:01:18Next we'll select a paragraph ... and choose
the "Improve Readability" action.
00:01:27You can use the box at the bottom of the Chat
view to refine the response by sending a message
00:01:31to the AI platform and it will generate
a new response based on your message.
00:01:37You can click this icon that appears to the
right of the response to edit your message
00:01:43or send further instructions. We'll click
replace to insert the generated response.
00:01:51A history drop-down in the top-right corner offers
a way to quickly select a recently used action.
00:02:01For complex instructions that the AI may not
be able to accurately complete without further
00:02:06assistance, you can click the Record button
in the top-left corner of the Assistant view.
00:02:12You can provide a set of instructions
for the AI to follow.
00:02:15and after clicking the "Start Recording"
button at the bottom of the dialog box,
00:02:20you can then execute a series of actions
in the editing area that will serve as a
00:02:24collection of examples to help the AI process the
complex instructions. For example, in our case,
00:02:31we're showing the AI how to convert text that
looks like menu items into a menu cascade,
00:02:40which requires consecutive uicontrol elements
that are wrapped in a menucascade element.
00:02:48Then, after clicking the "Stop Recording" button,
you have the ability to save the final result
00:02:53either as a favorite chat prompt ... or as a
custom Positron action. After giving it a name,
00:03:01a description, and configuring the action,
you would click "Save Instructions"...
00:03:06... and it creates a JSON file that defines
the action and that action is now available
00:03:12in the "Other" section in the Assistant view. To
test it, we'll select content that contains text
00:03:18structure that we want to convert and click the
new custom action, and we'll choose "replace",
00:03:26and you can see that it converted it to the
complex structure that we recorded.
00:03:33If you save the recorded instruction as
a favorite prompt, it will be available
00:03:37in this drop-down menu at the
bottom of the Chat view.
00:03:43For more information about the Oxygen AI
Positron Assistant, see our webpage.