While creating a user, you should enable "Send notification email" to notify that user for account creation.
About the task notifications, Jira projects have default notification scheme which notifies reporter, assignee and watchers in any event. So, any chance in issue will notify the assignee. To change the notification settings, go to project -> project settings -> notifications page.
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