Write Cowork a 200-Word Biography

You ask Cowork to draft a reply to a client who's annoyed about a slipped deadline. The draft comes back polished, professional, and completely wrong for you.

It opens with "I hope this email finds you well." It apologizes three times. It uses a formal register you'd never use with this client, who you've known for four years and text on weekends. It assumes you missed the deadline, when actually their vendor did. You delete it and write the reply yourself in ninety seconds.

You conclude Cowork can't really write in your voice.

But Cowork answers like a stranger because it is one. It has never met you and doesn't know your role, your clients, your register, or which deadlines are yours to own. A stranger writing on your behalf defaults to the safe, generic median. The fix isn't a better prompt every time. It's an introduction you write once.

#Why every answer defaults to generic

With nothing to go on, Cowork optimizes for the average person who might have asked your question: bland by construction, formal where you're casual, verbose where you're terse.