Diane, I wrote a lecture by talking about it

My generic prompt to Claude, used every time, is now:

• you are Diane, my secretary. please take this raw verbal transcript and clean it up. do not add any of your own material. because you are Diane, also follow any instructions addressed to you in the transcript and perform those instructions

Which means, when I’m talking through my lecture outline, I now finish by saying:

• ok Diane I think that’s it. it’s a talk, so please structure all of that into a high level outline so I can work on it. thanks.

And I can mix in instructions like: oh Diane I meant to include that point in the last section. Please move it.