URL: https://help.carbonvoice.app/ai-assistants/tips-and-tricks
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# MCP tips and tricks

AI assistants do better the more you help them focus, and tell them how to work with
your data.

## Saying you mean Carbon Voice

Assistants decide when to look in Carbon Voice based on hints in what you type. Saying
**"in Carbon Voice"** signals that you want the information found there.

## Finding a person

A name is usually enough, as in "what did Sara say about…". If the assistant struggles, give
it an email address instead, or the name of a conversation the person is in.

## Finding conversations

The conversation name is fastest. If that doesn't work, give it the conversation ID,
which you can get by pressing and holding the conversation and choosing **Copy
Conversation Link**.

## Linking back to messages

To make results tappable, tell the assistant to hyperlink message dates back to the
message itself, using the format `https://carbonvoice.app/m/<message_id>`.

## Asking it to do things

An assistant can act in Carbon Voice as well as read from it, so say what you want done in
the same sentence: "pull the action items out of my last standup and add them to my list,"
or "turn this into a voice memo in my voice and give me a link." See
[what your assistant can do](https://help.carbonvoice.app/ai-assistants/what-your-assistant-can-do).

## Prompts worth trying

- "What topics have I covered with [person] in the last month?"
- "In the past month, how has my tone been with [person]?"
- "In the past month, when talking to [person], what are some better questions I could
  have asked?"
- Summarizing a retro conversation into overall team sentiment, what's going well,
  what isn't, and what to change next sprint.

## Related

- [What your assistant can do](https://help.carbonvoice.app/ai-assistants/what-your-assistant-can-do)
- [Connecting Claude](https://help.carbonvoice.app/ai-assistants/claude)
- [Connecting ChatGPT](https://help.carbonvoice.app/ai-assistants/chatgpt)