What to ask an AI assistant that can read your WhatsApp: 10 prompts
Ten practical prompts for an AI assistant with access to your WhatsApp, from catching up on unread chats to summarising threads, plus what it cannot do.
Giving an AI assistant access to your WhatsApp only pays off if you know what to ask it. The assistant can list your chats, read the history of one, and search your contacts, and the best prompts are the ones that lean on those abilities. These ten work well, and each says what the assistant is actually doing behind the scenes.
Ten prompts to try
1. Which chats are waiting on a reply from me?
The assistant lists your recent chats with the last message in each and picks out the ones where someone else spoke last. It is the fastest way to start a day, and it replaces scrolling through the list yourself.
2. Summarise the thread with the supplier since Monday
It finds the chat by name, reads the messages from that point, and gives you the outcome rather than the transcript: what was agreed, what is still open, and any dates or amounts mentioned. Ask it to quote the messages it is relying on if the details matter.
3. What did customers ask about this week?
Point it at the chats that matter and ask for the recurring questions. This turns scattered conversations into a list you can act on, such as a missing line in your FAQ or an unclear price.
4. Find the contact who sent me the invoice
Search by name, nickname or part of a phone number is one of the assistant's tools. If you describe the person rather than naming them, ask it to look through recent chats and tell you which one matches.
5. What was decided in the group chat about Saturday?
Group threads are where decisions get lost. The assistant reads the recent messages and tells you the conclusion, who is bringing what, and whether anyone objected.
6. Did I promise anything I have not done yet?
Ask it to read your recent chats for commitments you made, such as I will send that over tomorrow, and list them with who they were made to. Check each against the original message before relying on the list.
7. What does this photo show?
Images in recent messages can be passed to the assistant along with the text, so it can describe a product photo, read a screenshot of an order, or tell you what a damaged-item picture shows. It looks at a small number of recent images, so point it at the right chat first.
8. Draft a reply to this customer, in the same tone I used with them before
It reads the history to match how you write, then gives you a draft. You decide whether it is sent. This is the safest way to start using an assistant for replies, because you stay in the loop on every message.
9. Organise these contacts with tags
With manage access, the assistant can create tags and apply them: customers, suppliers, waiting for payment. It changes your organisation of contacts without sending anyone a message, and you can review the result in the dashboard.
10. What did you read to answer that?
This one is about trust. Every call the assistant makes is recorded in an activity log, so you can check which chats it opened and when. Asking the assistant to explain its sources, and then checking the log, is a good habit for the first few weeks.
Things to keep in mind
The assistant reads what is in the chats you connect, so choose the account deliberately. It can misread a thread just as a person can, which is why quoting the source message is useful. It works from what is in the conversation, so it will not know what was said on a call. And sending is a separate permission: you can give an assistant read access only, which is enough for the first eight prompts here, and add more later if you want it.
Getting started
Link a WhatsApp number with the QR code, connect an assistant that supports MCP using the connect guide, and begin with the first prompt. Which chats are waiting on a reply is a good test of whether the whole setup is working.