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Book weekly restaurants and surface daily discoveries from your data

Your past ChatGPT threads, Google trail, and Instagram likes become fuel for an OpenClaw helper that reserves weekly tables, pings daily discoveries, and keeps proposed memory updates in a holding pen.

Agent or tool
OpenClaw
Topic
Personal Assistant
Reported on
Hacker News
Added
2026-10-15

Why it matters

This is the classic promise of AI agents: a helper that handles errands and reminders on your behalf. Real cases like this show how close that promise is today. It is one of 50 sightings filed under Personal Assistant on Agent Sightings (number 12 by interest), and one of 41 involving OpenClaw.

How you could try it

Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into OpenClaw or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.

Each week suggest and prepare restaurant bookings from my tastes; each day surface one discovery from my connected history. Propose memory edits for approval and never confirm a reservation without me.

Tip: Start small: run it once on a low-stakes example, read what the agent did, and only then let it run on real work.

Source

Read the original first-hand account on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47476742. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.

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