The holidays are upon us, and so is the annual quandary of what to buy everyone.

The secret lies in giving them a prompt with descriptors and hints.

It’s since been hailed as smart enough topass the bar exam.

The field widened quickly with other contenders, including Microsoft’s Bing AI andGoogle’s Bard.

you might use Bing AI chat without a Microsoft account in any web client, and iniOSandAndroidphoneapps.

It’s free to use.

I didn’t even have to switch from my preferred Chrome web app to Microsoft Edge.

When I did the same on my phone, it directed me to download theBing AI app on Android.

Make your prompt specific

When writing my prompt, I tried to be very specific.

I found the best gift suggestions came from selecting the “more creative” option.

Downloading the Bing app and using that for the search also yielded more-detailed results, with slightly different suggestions.

That said, it does save time.

I didn’t have to search for and read multiple yearly lists of gift suggestions.

Bing AI scoured the web for them and generated a shortlist in seconds.

What went wrong?

I refined again, asking for prices and Amazon links.

The results were mixed.

(OpenAI said recently that it knowsChatGPT has been “getting lazier"since a November update.)