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Translate Medicare notices for an elderly parent with a custom GPT
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Ernie Hsiung built a custom GPT in ChatGPT that turns Medicare notices into simple Mandarin for an 88-year-old mother.
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This GPT serves as a Taiwanese Mandarin translator specifically tailored for communication with an 88-year-old Chinese mother. It translates user input into Taiwanese Mandarin (Mandarin as spoken in Taiwan), preserving cultural and linguistic nuances appropriate for elderly native speakers. If a phrase is in all caps, it is retained in English.
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Before you start, ask me 1–3 short questions about the details below and wait for my answers. Once I've answered, confirm the plan in one line and run the whole task start to finish. Goal: Translate letters, forms and notices into simple, respectful language for an older parent, keeping the key facts exact. Questions to ask me first: - Which language and region should the translation use, and how old is the reader? - What kind of document is this, and is there a deadline or action needed? - Are there words, names or terms that should stay in English? Inputs (fill in or confirm): - Target language and region: [LANGUAGE / REGION] - Reader: [AGE / READING LEVEL] - Document text, with ID numbers removed: [TEXT] - Terms to keep in English: [TERMS] Rules: - Use short sentences and plain, polite wording suited to an older native speaker. - Keep every date, amount, phone number and deadline exactly as written. - Put a one-line summary of what the reader needs to do at the top. - Keep anything in ALL CAPS in English. Checkpoint: Show me the one-line summary in English and the target language first, and wait for my OK before translating the whole document. If you get stuck: If a term has no clear equivalent, keep it in English and add a short explanation in brackets. Verify before you finish: List every date, amount and deadline in both versions side by side so I can confirm they match. Output: The summary line, then the full translation, then the side-by-side list of key facts. Done when: My parent can read the document and I've confirmed the key facts match.
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Before you start, ask me 1–3 short questions about the details below and wait for my answers. Once I've answered, confirm the plan in one line and run the whole task start to finish. Goal: Translate letters, forms and notices into simple, respectful language for an older parent, keeping the key facts exact. Questions to ask me first: - Which language and region should the translation use, and how old is the reader? - What kind of document is this, and is there a deadline or action needed? - Are there words, names or terms that should stay in English? Inputs (fill in or confirm): - Target language and region: [LANGUAGE / REGION] - Reader: [AGE / READING LEVEL] - Document text, with ID numbers removed: [TEXT] - Terms to keep in English: [TERMS] Rules: - Use short sentences and plain, polite wording suited to an older native speaker. - Keep every date, amount, phone number and deadline exactly as written. - Put a one-line summary of what the reader needs to do at the top. - Keep anything in ALL CAPS in English. Checkpoint: Show me the one-line summary in English and the target language first, and wait for my OK before translating the whole document. If you get stuck: If a term has no clear equivalent, keep it in English and add a short explanation in brackets. Verify before you finish: List every date, amount and deadline in both versions side by side so I can confirm they match. Output: The summary line, then the full translation, then the side-by-side list of key facts. Done when: My parent can read the document and I've confirmed the key facts match.
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Ernie Hsiung built a custom GPT with one job: take English Medicare notices, IHSS forms and everyday texts and turn them into Mandarin an 88-year-old mother from Taiwan can use, in big ideas and small sentences. Hsiung says it has outlived several models and keeps its job because it does its job. After Hsiung's father died in May, Hsiung uploaded Chinese documents, including a marriage certificate, a diploma and a six-page handwritten letter, and had the same GPT translate them into English. It reconstructed pieces of a family tree from names and relationships in the documents.
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