Best practices for chatting with assistants

Try providing more details

Try providing more details in your questions to get more specific answers. For overviews, ask what something is. For tasks, ask how to do something. For example, if you were interested in learning about scripting in Qlik. in a Qlik Cloud assistant, instead of asking "What is scripting?", try asking "What is scripting in Qlik Cloud?" or "What is scripting in Data load editor?"

If you have a specific purpose in mind, be specific in your question. For example, "How do I remove spaces using the trim function in a chart expression in Qlik Cloud Analytics?".

Rephrase your question

If you are not getting the expected responses to your questions, try rephrasing your question. Try asking in a way that describes what you are looking for. That can help give the assistant the correct context to answer your questions.

Even small adjustments to your original question's phrasing, such as punctuation, can change the context for your Qlik Answers assistant.

Ask a general question about your subject and then get specific

The more context an assistant has, the better the assistant can answer your question. When answering questions in a conversation, assistants use sources from previous answers in the conversation when answering the current question. You can use this behavior to build better responses.

When conversing with an assistant, try starting with a more general question on your subject of interest. Based on the answer received, follow up with increasingly more specific questions on the subject. Once your think you have established full context, as your specific question.

Explore using keywords to make discoveries

If you are getting more general responses to your questions when you are interested in a specific subject, try using keywords from the received responses to ask for more information. This helps provide more information in context of your first question. With each subsequent question and response, you build better context for the assistant to answer your question. Once you have explored enough, ask more narrow and specific questions about the subject matter.

Ask the assistant what it can answer about a subject

If you are not sure what to ask, try asking the assistant what questions it can answer about a subject. The assistant answers with the kinds of questions it can answer for you on that subject. For example, try asking "Give me 5 questions you can answer about trim?".

Start a new conversation when changing topics

If you are chatting with an assistant and want to change to a different topic, start a new conversation. This will make sure that the assistant has clearer context when providing answers about the new subject of interest.