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- Will we have the option for users to vote for the most useful prompts in Copilot Lab?
- Alyson_Ginesta
Microsoft
Thank you for your feedback, we have heard similar requests! The more information you can provide on this will help our dev team.- Sure! Here are some reasons why I think this feature would be valuable: Community Engagement: Allowing users to vote on prompts encourages community engagement. It empowers users to express their preferences and contribute to the improvement of Copilot Lab. Quality Control: Voting enables users to highlight high-quality prompts. It helps filter out less useful or outdated content, ensuring that the most relevant and accurate prompts rise to the top. Feedback Loop: By voting, users can provide direct feedback to Microsoft. It serves as a feedback loop, allowing the dev team to prioritize and refine prompts based on user preferences. Discoverability: Prompts with more votes would be easily discoverable by other users, making it easier to find valuable content. My suggestion to implement this mechanism is the following: - Add a voting mechanism (thumbs up/down or star ratings) next to each prompt. - Allow users to vote anonymously. - Display the total votes for each prompt. Thank you for taking this feedback! If you need any further details or have additional questions, feel free to reach out.
- I believe it is not available yet.
- For summaries and insights the video mentioned that Copilot with look for your name in @mentions. Would you suggest that companies start using @mentions for a person's name so that the content becomes accessible to Copilot? Or can Copilot also find you if someone just uses your name without an @mention?
Aaron-HalfakerWe have ways to detect names without @mentions. For example, sharepoint search can match a name "lexically" -- documents and communication containing a specific text will be matched when searching for that specific text (e.g. "Aaron Halfaker" for me). So long as a name is unique, it can be found that way. But it's much easier to know who is being referred to when a @mention is used. There are, of course, secondary effects of @mentions in that they lead to notifications so you may choose not to @mention in some circumstances and that is fine. But the cost is that retrieving documents and communications without and @mention will be less consistent and predictable. One of the super powers of language models is that they can often work out who is being referred to from context. E.g. if someone sends an email to a group and refers to someone by their first name only, the language model can be smart enough to cross-reference the "To" and "CC" list on the email to disambiguate who exactly is being referred to. But we make the language model's job easier and thus it's outputs more consistent when we don't require it to cross reference in order to make sense of what we need it to understand for us.
- I've noticed that when searching in Chat, it will not find a file if you as "please find x file" but will find it if you just say "x file." What is the best way to prompt for files?
- You can try adding the name of the person who shared, medium in which it is shared like chat, email or from Sharepoint, if you remember the date you can mention that too or if it has any keyword like project name or customer name you can add that too. Basically play around the prompts until you are able to get the expected output.
- Aaron-HalfakerIf you have the exact file name, it's helpful to put it in quotes. If you don't recall the exact file name, I agree with Rajesh that providing context about the file and should help the copilot find it. Generally, copilot should have consistent behavior between "x file" and "please find x file". Thanks for calling out that you are running into this issue. I will add this type of behavior to our test set so that we can improve the copilot in the future.
- Several functions you showed in outlook, like the "schedule a meeting" are missing from my app. Are there differences between NA and EU?
- GabeHoSome of these are features coming soon or in various stages of being rolled out, you can also track them from the roadmap https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=Launched%2CIn%20development%2CMicrosoft%20Copilot%20for%20Microsoft%20365&searchterms=outlook
- Where do I find these new marketing videos for Copilot in each of the M365 Apps? These are better and I would like to share with my team.
- Alyson_GinestaGreat! Check out our Microsoft 365 YouTube channel for more Copilot videos: https://www.youtube.com/@Microsoft365/videos
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- Is there a way to control just the transcript through purview compliance content retention feature? I would like to delete it after one day, finding a middle ground between copilot without transcript (that can only be invoked when in meeting, therefore if someone forgets they are done for) and copilot with transcript, that presents a bit of a compliance headache for us (since we do not allow meeting recordings)? Ideally, we could use the copilot with no transcript for longer, ie hide the transcript from user but allow copliot prompts after the meeting ends.
- Alyson_GinestaYes, you can find more info here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/communication-compliance-teams
- For the "Follow" option will Copilot automatically start a recording of the meeting and do the other attendees know that will be happening?
- Yana Terukhovait does not start automatically, it notifies the owner of the meeting, that someone is following suggesting to record.
- Do you need the meeting to be recorded in order to get a summary of the meeting?
- Can it add rows of data? i.e.. I want to total column b and put a number at the bottom of the table. What is the prompt to make this happen?
- Alyson_GinestaAsk Copilot to complete the formula the same way you would ask a person and then iterate once you receive a response. Copilot works best using natural language and the prompt ingredients that we outlined earlier in the session.
