I’ve always been a reader. One of my favorite questions to ask people is “What’s the best book you’ve read recently?” It gives a window into what subjects one is truly interested in, almost like getting a brief look into their personal google search history. In anticipation of the new Oppenheimer movie release next Friday, I’m reading American Prometheus and scrambling to carve out the time to finish its 721 pages before I hit AMC in Back Bay next weekend. Instead of going my usual route of perusing the internet for lists of book recommendations from the WSJ, NYT, and other sites, I’m going to turn to the powers of GPT.
I’ve copied over all of the books listed on my bookshelf tab and included them in my prompt:
These recommendations look decent, but I’d like to see if it can give me the best match possible and take away all thinking required on my end:
Funny enough, that’s already waiting for me and is next up on the list. Looks like we have a winner:
Side note, does anyone know if this used edition includes a real signature from Ben??
mike murphy 