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Get smarter insights with a personalized AI Assistant

Learn how to engage with a prebuilt or personalized AI Assistant in PDF Spaces to uncover insights, clarify content, and deepen your understanding.

PDF Spaces include prebuilt AI Assistants designed for specific roles, business needs, and document types. Choose a prebuilt AI Assistant that best fits your needs to get context-specific insights and work more efficiently.

Alternatively, create a personalized AI Assistant to extract more relevant, actionable information that align more closely to your goals.

Get tailored insights 

  1. Select PDF Spaces from the Acrobat homepage and then open your PDF Space.

  2. Select Choose an assistant from the chat panel and pick one of the following:

    • Use default AI Assistant: General assistance for broad tasks
    • Analyst: Best suited for analyzing data or summarizing research
    • Entertainer: Great for creative storytelling or engaging content
    • Instructor: Ideal for explaining concepts or teaching
    • Create your own: Create a personalized AI Assistant for your unique needs
    PDF Space chat panel showing options to select a specialist AI Assistant, such as Analyst or Entertainer for personalized insights.
    Choose an AI Assistant to get custom insights tailored to your goals.

  3. Ask the AI Assistant to generate insights or outputs tailored to your PDF Space. Frame questions around your goals, problems, or tasks for the most relevant and actionable insights.
    Examples:

    • Create a study guide with an answer key and suggested study schedule.
    • Draft an email summarizing the top 5 key takeaways and suggested next steps.
    • Create a table comparing sales results over the past six quarters.
    Tip

    Refine your queries by following up after the AI Assistant responds to dig deeper, uncover missing details, or shift focus for more tailored insights.

Create a personalized AI Assistant

  1. Select PDF Spaces from the Acrobat homepage and then open your PDF Space.

  2. From the chat panel, select Choose an assistant > Create your own.

  3. In the dialog box that opens, enter a name and a brief description for the AI Assistant.

    PDF Spaces dialog box for creating a custom assistant with fields to assign name, define goal, and instructions.
    Enter name, description, and special instructions to create your personalized AI Assistant.

  4. To customize your AI Assistant further, select Generate instructions, review the auto-generated content, and edit it if needed.

  5. Select Save and apply to activate your personalized AI Assistant.

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