What's a purely "you" thing you do with AI that brings you positive benefits?

Reddit r/artificial / 4/15/2026

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Key Points

  • A Reddit user describes using multiple customized AI chats for highly practical personal needs, including interpreting medical results and tracking medication alongside diet and lifestyle changes.
  • The user anonymizes detailed medical history and medication/supplement information, finding that AI-generated advice and clarifying questions are often well targeted, while emphasizing the need for independent medical verification.
  • They also use separate AI chats for vehicle troubleshooting (owners manuals, warranty details, warning lights, and policy changes) and for home/apartment maintenance and appliance warranty/repair guidance.
  • For additional engagement, the user roleplays with AI personas (e.g., “Dr. Crusher” and “Tom Paris”) to make Q&A more enjoyable and intuitive.
  • The post invites others to share their own unusual but useful “personal AI” workflows.

For me it's three chats I've set up, two for my parents and one for me, for interpreting medical results, tracking medication against diet and lifestyle changes. Anonymized, I've put every condition, surgery and medication I (and they) have had, and it's amazing how virtually all the advice and questions are spot on.

YES, caution is needed before jumping on any advice an AI gives you medically. But for interpreting results, explaining exams and procedures, and noting any indications between medication and foods/supplements (with verification independently) has been a real relief as my folks get older and it's harder to keep on top of everything they're taking.

I also have a separate chat for my car (manufacturers warranty, owners manual, car insurance policy) and I can literally ask it about any button, lever, warning light or policy change.

Same with my apartment/condo rules/repairs/appliance warrantees and owners manuals for large appliances.

For fun, I also had the chat roleplay as Dr. Crusher from the Enterprise, and my car is managed by Tom Paris from Star Trek: Voyager, so it speaks to me as if it's those people.

Anyone else doing anything weird and useful?

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