Recently, I have been asked a lot of questions about practical applications of generative AI in my day-to-day work as a college counselor. So in light of this, I have been thinking a lot about how to share some of these use cases. I also recently encountered this prompt from a newsletter:

I recently attended a networking event and met several potential collaborators. I need a template for a follow-up email that I can send them to express my interest in further discussions. The event was about [Insert event topic].

For my part, I wanted to tweak this a little bit to be more germane and related to me and an event that I was recently at. So I sculpted the prompt above into the following form to meet these desires:

I recently attended a networking event and met several potential collaborators. I need a template for a follow-up email that I can send them to express appreciation for having made the connection and to suggest the possibility for further discussions (and possibly collaborations). Ask if they are planning to be in attendance at any conferences in the coming academic year. The event where we met was about high school college counseling. The networking event was a week-long training for veteran and novice high school college counselors called the College Board Summer Institute for International Counselors, held in New York City, where I was on the program faculty.

I entered this prompt into Bing, and the following result was produced:

Hi [First Name],

It was great meeting you at the College Board Summer Institute for International Counselors in New York City last week. I enjoyed our conversation about [specific topic] and appreciate the insights you shared.

I would love to continue our discussion and explore potential opportunities for collaboration. Are you planning to attend any conferences in the coming academic year? It would be great to meet up again if our schedules align.

Thank you again for your time and I look forward to keeping in touch.

Best,
[Your Name]

This seems to be a good place to begin, enabling some quick follow-up emails with some custom-tailoring required. What do you think?