Session 3 · Prep
Think of a letter.
AI for Everyday Life · Saturday, October 3, 2026
To the landlord, the school, the employer, an office. On Saturday we write the letters people keep putting off, with your profile and just one more line. And we learn to read them before they go out.
No profile yet? Come anyway. It takes ten minutes, the Session 2 page shows you how, and on Saturday you will follow easily.
Your profile, ready to paste
On Saturday, every demo starts from a pasted profile. Keep yours within reach.
This week's homework: use your profile three times, on three different requests, then correct it by adding whatever it was missing. On Saturday, at minute 2, we count who did it.
If you saved it in your assistant, it is already there. If not, here is the Session 2 header: paste your profile into it, and all that is left to write is what you want.
Here is who I am: [paste your profile]. Keep this in mind for our whole conversation. What I want: [the request]. In this shape: [length, tone, language, use].
Did you join this week?
Welcome. The profile was last Saturday's lesson. The Session 2 page has the videos, the prompt to write one, and how to save it in Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot or Grok.
Open Session 2A letter of your own
Five minutes of thought before Saturday. It is what you will write during the workshop.
Think of a letter or a message you need to write this month and keep putting off. Not an exercise: a real one. On Saturday, after the class, you will write it live.
To the landlord
A repair that never comes, a notice, a question about the lease.
To the school
An absence to explain, a meeting with the teacher, a concern.
To the employer
Time off, a schedule change, a cover letter.
To an office
A disputed bill, an appointment, a request for a document.
Note the facts, not the text
The exact dates, what you have already done, what you are asking for, and which language the recipient reads. That is all. The AI writes the letter. It cannot guess the facts, and if you do not give them, it invents them.
What Saturday teaches
Three moves for everyday life
1. Write
Your profile, what you want, in what shape. The letter comes out in one go. And one sentence you never forget: invent nothing.
2. Adjust the tone
Too curt, too soft, too long: you do not start over. One line does it, firmer or politer, and you tell it the facts do not move.
3. Translate, then check
Between French and English, it is very good. Into Lingala, much less so. And you cannot reread a language you cannot read. So you translate it back somewhere else, and compare.
Your profile plus one line gives you a letter. But you only send it after you have read it.
Two rules
What stays in your hands
Official documents
Immigration, court, medical: AI is very good at helping you understand the letter you received. But the official reply, or the official translation, takes a lawyer or a certified translator. Never AI on its own.
The Zoom chat
During the workshop, paste only what you are asking for and in what shape. No address, no surname, not your profile: the chat is seen by everyone and it is recorded.
Take away
The four prompts of the session
Keep this page open on Saturday. Everything we use live is here, ready to copy. Brackets are yours to fill in.
3.1 · The letter
Your profile does lines 1 and 2. You only write what you want and in what shape. The last sentence matters most.
Here is who I am: [paste your profile]. I want a letter to [recipient: landlord / school / employer / office]: [the facts, with exact dates and what you have already done]. In [the recipient's language], [tone: polite / firm / warm], [length], ready to send by [email / post / WhatsApp]. If it is not in my language, add a translation underneath so I know what I am signing. Do not cite any law and do not invent any date or fact.
3.2 · The tone
One line changes the tone. The facts do not move: tell it so.
Same letter, but [firmer / more polite / shorter / warmer / less cold]. [What you want to add: a deadline, a reminder, a thank-you.] Do not change any fact: dates, amounts and names stay exactly the same.
3.3 · The translation
For an announcement, a group message, a letter. Very good between French and English, weaker into Lingala.
Translate this text into [language], for [audience: family / the community / a school]. Keep dates, times, places, names and numbers exactly as they are. If a word has no equivalent, keep it and flag it in brackets. Add nothing and remove nothing. [your text]
3.4 · The round trip
The check of the session. In a new chat, so it cannot remember the original. Thirty seconds, and you see what moved.
Translate this text into [your language], as faithfully as possible, word for word if needed, without improving it. [the translated text]
Then compare, in this order
The date, the times, the places, the amounts, the names, the tone. If anything changed, it does not go out until someone who speaks the language has read it.
These four prompts are the Session 3 card. They join those of Sessions 1 and 2 in your prompt library, the one you will receive complete at graduation.
For the more technical
Why the round trip works
Why a new chat
In the same conversation, the model still has the original in front of it: its context window contains it. Its "back-translation" would then be partly a copy of what it already read, and it would hide exactly the errors you are looking for. A fresh chat only knows the translated text. What it gets out of it is what a real reader would get.
Why Lingala is more fragile
A model learns a language from the written text it saw during training. French and English have billions of pages. Lingala, which is first of all a spoken language, far fewer. The result: a sentence that looks right, with an invented word or a moved time, and no outward sign that anything is wrong.
The full definitions
Context window
How much it can hold in front of it at once. A desk, not a warehouse.
Training, and then using it
Training happened once, months ago. Your question uses the finished result, in a second.
Hallucination
When it invents something and says it with exactly the same confidence as a fact.
Token
It does not count words. It counts pieces of words.
Missed Session 2?
Catch up in eleven minutes.
The four lines and the profile are what Saturday builds on. The highlights are enough to arrive level with everyone else. The Session 2 page has both full classes, with chapters.
To be in the room on Saturday
Two things, and the first one only ever happens once.
Two sessions, one room
French from 10:00 to 10:45, English from 11:00 to 11:45, Dallas time (16:00 and 17:00 in Kinshasa). Same Zoom link for both, and you are welcome to stay for both.
Already registered on Zoom?
Then there is nothing to redo. Your personal link works for all 16 Saturdays: search your inbox for "CBNEXT", and check your junk folder too. If you cannot find it, write to info@dmact.org and we will resend it.
The certificate
It needs 10 sessions out of 16. October 31 is the last day to join and still reach 10. After that date the class stays free and open, but the certificate is no longer reachable for this cohort.
See you Saturday.
Session 3, Saturday 3 October. "AI for Everyday Life". Bring your profile, and a letter in mind.