Auto-assign tasks to Project Owner

I know I have asked this in the past but it's been a few years now so I'll ask again ...

We have quite a few templates where there are tasks that are always are assigned to the project owner. As Resource Managers, my team always has to assign those tasks to whoever owns the project. I know that approvals can be automated for the project owner but not tasks. Is there a way to auto-assign tasks to the the project owner? If we can do this and automate a few other things I can actually automate myself out of a job😀