What should I say when I dictate an assignment to AI?
Speaking lets you explain a problem in your own words, and it also produces a long transcript where the assignment, your frustration and a few unchosen possibilities all run together. Before you record, decide what you want back and say that first.
A draft update, a list of questions or a comparison of two options all work as a first line. Then give the context: what happened, what's already decided and what's still open. If you're considering an option and haven't chosen it, say so. "We could offer Friday" means something different from "Offer Friday."
Close with the limits, like this: "Prepare the update for my review. Do not send it. Mark any missing dates rather than filling them in."
I'd also ask the AI assistant for a short summary of the assignment before it prepares anything full. Read that summary for changes in meaning, especially around names, dates, amounts and tentative ideas, and fix the misunderstanding there so you aren't editing a whole document built on it.
You don't need to read from a script. You can speak naturally and still make it easy to tell the work you want from the ideas you're still working through.