This article provides a detailed description and example prompts for each Real-Time News and Social Assistant skill.

Skills

The Real-Time News and Social Assistant can search and summarize based on the last 30 days of broad social and open web news data.

Create Search Query Skill

The first step in using the Real-Time News and Social Assistant is to ask a question in natural language that returns data for use by other skills.

Task	Example Prompts
Ask a question using keywords	"How many people talked about wendys or #wendys?" "How many people talked about wendys or #wendys mentioned with surge price or #surgeprice?"
Ask a question by including and excluding keywords	"How many people talked about wendys or #wendys mentioned with surge price or #surgeprice and not mentioned lunch in the last week?"
Ask a question about sentiment	"Find the number of people discussing Tesla that are negative."
Ask a question about a date, such as the last day or fixed starting and ending dates	"Find the number of people talking about electric vehicles between May 1-15, 2024."
Ask a question about a geolocation	"Find the number of people in Canada talking about electric bikes."
Apply or remove a theme by ID	"Set the theme ID to 321234 for my analysis." "Remove theme ID 321235 from the search."
Apply one or more themes as filters NOTE: For best results, enclose theme names in quotation marks.	"Apply the 'Price' and 'Quality' themes by Greg Stevens."

Get Metrics Skill

Retrieve one or more key metrics, including:

Posts
People
Authors
Positive Posts
Negative Posts
Net Sentiment score
Potential Impressions
Passion Intensity score

Task	Example Prompts
Get all metrics	"Get all the metrics for last day."
Find the number of authors	"How many people are talking about Wendy's in last month?"
Display all metrics in a table	"Show me all metrics for mentions of electric bikes for each week in the last month and put in a table for comparison."

Get Summary Skill

Summarize how people are talking or what people are saying based on a sample of up to 250 posts. This generates a summary of narratives and themes being discussed in the posts matching the search query.

Task	Example Prompts
Summarize conversation related to a keyword	"How are people talking about the 2024 US presidential election in last day?"
Summarize conversation around a keyword	"What are people saying about taxes? "Summarize how are people in the US talking about climate change in the last 2 weeks."

Get Insights Skill

Retrieves the top n insights for:

Authors
Domains
Hashtags
Genders
Terms
Mentioned companies or products
Mentioned people
Likes
Dislikes

Task	Example Prompts
Find top hashtags	"Show me the top 10 hashtags for posts that are negative and about taxes."
Find top authors	"Get me the top 25 authors discussing climate change."
Find top domains	"Filter to Super Bowl and then give me top 10 domains."

Get Timeline Skill

Display a timeline for any metric in daily, weekly, or monthly intervals.

Task	Example Prompts
Show a timeline for Net Sentiment	"Show me a timeline for Net Sentiment over the last 4 weeks."
Show a timeline for Impressions	"Display Impressions over the last week in a timeline chart."

Get Sound Bites Skill

Retrieve sample sound bites matching your search to see exemplar posts.

Task	Example Prompts
Retrieve sound bites about climate change	"Display sample sound bites around climate change."
Show negative sound bites	"Show me example sound bites for negative conversation."

Get Themes Skill

Retrieves a list of themes that are available to you in your Quid Monitor account.

📝 NOTE: For best results, enclose theme and folder names in quotation marks.

Task	Example Prompt
Get themes by keyword	"Show me all themes related to price."
Get themes by folder	"Show me all themes in the '#BRAND ATTRIBUTES' folder.