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There are three main ways to use Raycast AI:

  • Quick AI: It’s the fastest way to get answers to your questions directly from within Raycast. Ideal for one-off questions. Here’s a video to see it in action.
  • AI Chat: A standalone chat window to ask AI anything. Ideal as an assistant during your workday.
  • AI Commands: Pre-built or custom instructions, ideal for common tasks such as improve your writing.

Examples

Below are a few examples to familiarize yourself with Raycast AI. The examples show how to ask AI something, use the built-in commands, create your own custom commands, and interact with the AI Chat window.

Example 1: Quick AI

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Follow the steps to ask AI anything:

  1. Open Raycast
  2. Type your question, f.e. “What were the specs of the first Macintosh?”
  3. Press Tab to switch to Quick AI
  4. Perform your next action, e.g. press ⌘ J to continue the conversation in the AI Chat

Some more noteworthy features:

  • You can press Tab after opening Raycast to switch to Quick AI. This way you can access your previous question.
  • Quick AI is only for one-off questions. If you want to ask a follow up question, continue in the chat.
  • You can hide the Ask AI Tab hint via Settings → Extensions → Raycast AI. The Tab key still works.

Example 2: AI Chat

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Follow the steps to interact with the AI Chat:

  1. Open Raycast
  2. Search for “AI Chat” to open the spearate chat window
  3. Type in any question you want to start a conversation
  4. Continue the conversation with follow up questions
  5. Press ⌘ K, select “Ask AI” and search for “Make Shorter”
  6. Raycast applies the AI Command to shorten the previous message
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Pro Tip: Assign a global hotkey (e.g. ⌥ J) via Preferences → Extensions -> Raycast AI -> AI Chat to open the chat quicker

Example 3: Explain Words

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Follow the steps to explain the selected word:

  1. Select the word “philosophy”
  2. Open Raycast and search for “Explain This in Simple Terms”
  3. Raycast AI responds with the definition of the word “philosophy”

Example 4: Translate Text

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Follow the steps to create a new AI Command that translates selected text to any language:

  1. Open this article and select the three paragraphs
  2. Open Raycast, search for “Search AI Commands”
  3. Type in “translate to english” (or any other language) and hit ↵
  4. Raycast opens a new chat with the translation of the selected text

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To add the AI Command to your Raycast Root Search, continue with these steps:

  1. Go back to “Search AI Commands” and search for “translate”
  2. Press ⌘ E to edit the AI Command
  3. Give it a title-case title, e.g. “Translate to English”, change the icon to Flag, and the creativity to low
  4. Press ⌘ ↵ to update the AI Command
  5. Now you can use the AI Command from your Root Search

Placeholders

You can make your AI Commands dynamic with

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How to import AI Commands?

Limits

From OpenAI: A helpful rule of thumb is that one token generally corresponds to ~4 characters of text for common English text. This translates to roughly ¾ of a word (so 100 tokens ~= 75 words).

GPT-3.5 Turbo

  • 10 requests per minute
  • 200 requests per hour
  • 16k tokens context size (4k for GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct)

GPT-4

  • 10 requests per minute
  • 50 requests per 3 hours
  • 150 requests per 24 hours
  • 4k tokens context size

Note: We also send some context together with the user's prompt. So do not expect exact numbers.

Note: “Submit Without Generating” does not count towards your request limits.

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