assistant vs right-hand person

assistant

noun
  • A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program. 

  • Sales assistant. 

  • A person who assists or helps someone else. 

adj
  • Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. 

  • Having a subordinate or auxiliary position. 

right-hand person

How often have the words assistant and right-hand person occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )