Prompt Presets in Pluely v1: Choose How Pluely Answers

Pluely v1's overlay composer includes a set of prompt presets — ready-made instructions that shape the style, focus, and tone of Pluely's answers before you type a single word of your own question. Instead of writing out context every time ("act like an interviewer," "keep this concise for a meeting"), you pick a preset once and Pluely applies that framing to everything you ask while it is selected.

The five presets

Pluely v1 ships with five prompt presets:

• General Assistant — a broad, all-purpose preset with no specialized framing. Good for everyday questions, quick lookups, writing help, or anything that does not fit one of the more specific presets below.
• Interview Assistant — framed around helping you through a live interview conversation, whether you are the one being interviewed or running the interview. Good for behavioral and general-role interviews where you want responses aimed at that context.
• Meeting Assistant — framed around live meetings and calls, where answers are shaped to be useful in real time as a conversation unfolds, such as summarizing points, tracking action items, or answering a question raised mid-discussion.
• Technical Interview — a more specialized version of the interview framing, aimed at technical questions — coding, system design, or engineering topics — where answers benefit from a more precise, technically detailed style.
• Translator — framed around translating what is said or written from one language to another, rather than answering or discussing it.

How to choose a preset

1. Open the overlay and locate the prompt preset selector in the composer.
2. Review the five options: General Assistant, Interview Assistant, Meeting Assistant, Technical Interview, and Translator.
3. Select the preset that matches what you are currently doing — for example, Technical Interview for a coding interview, or Meeting Assistant while on a call.
4. Ask your question as normal; Pluely applies the selected preset's framing to how it responds.
5. Switch presets at any time as your situation changes — for example, moving from a General Assistant conversation into an Interview Assistant one right before a call starts.

What each preset is good for

Reach for General Assistant by default, or any time your question does not clearly belong to one of the specialized scenarios. Reach for Interview Assistant or Technical Interview specifically when you are in (or preparing for) an interview conversation — pick Technical Interview when the substance is engineering or coding-heavy, and Interview Assistant for more general behavioral or role-fit conversations. Reach for Meeting Assistant during live calls where you want responses shaped for a real-time discussion rather than a standalone question. Reach for Translator whenever the task is converting language rather than answering a question about the content.

How the preset shapes answers

Selecting a preset changes the instructions Pluely works from before it ever sees your specific question, which in turn shapes tone, structure, and focus. An Interview Assistant or Technical Interview preset nudges answers toward the kind of concise, confident, context-aware responses useful in a live conversation, while a Meeting Assistant preset nudges toward the kind of summarizing and action-oriented responses useful when following an ongoing discussion. Translator narrows the task specifically to translation rather than commentary. General Assistant applies no such narrowing, leaving Pluely to respond to your question on its own terms.

Write your own prompts

The built-in presets are starting points. From the dashboard's System prompts page you can write your own — "answer like a sales engineer for a fintech product", "respond in Spanish, two sentences max", anything. Your prompts appear in the same picker, above the built-ins, and work everywhere a preset does: Ask mode, Listen mode, and automatic responses.

Attach files to a prompt (knowledge)

Custom prompts can carry attached files — your résumé, a product spec, a pricing sheet, meeting notes. Pluely reads them once and includes their content as reference knowledge with every answer generated under that prompt, automatically. This is what makes automatic responses in a live interview genuinely yours: with your résumé attached to your interview prompt, "tell me about a project you led" gets answered from your actual experience, not generic filler.

Attach files when creating or editing a prompt on the dashboard. They stay attached until you remove them, and re-using them never costs additional uploads.

Presets during a live session

In Listen mode, each context tab (Interview, Meeting, Coding, Translate) maps to its matching preset by default, so the copilot's automatic responses fit the conversation without any setup. Explicitly picking a prompt — built-in or your own — overrides that mapping until you change it.

Related

Prompt presets work alongside whatever model you have selected — see Model selection for choosing which model answers your questions. See Ask mode and Listen mode for the modes these presets apply within, and the Settings overview for the full list of Settings sections.