Ask HN: What AI tools do you use to boost productivity? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What AI tools do you use to boost productivity?

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Post by jmakov » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 8:45 AM UTC

AutoPR

Re: Ask HN: What AI tools do you use to boost productivity?

#12

Post by sBqQu3U0wH » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 9:37 AM UTC

None, because I am not a productivity-obsessed drone. From what I've tried, Github Copilot is pretty good, but it's often more disruptive than helpful, therefore I do not use it on a daily basis.

Re: Ask HN: What AI tools do you use to boost productivity?

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Post by zackees » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 9:54 AM UTC

I use Chat GPT 4 for all coding. I’ve learned some amazing prompts that will add features to existing code.

Re: Ask HN: What AI tools do you use to boost productivity?

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Post by falloutx » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 10:19 AM UTC

computersuck wrote: post #2

I don't. My productivity is just fine with bash To empower thinking in this information overload era, turn off your computer and start writing on paper

I am of the opinion in this heavy information age, we have stopped thinking of internet as a productivity tool, but more of as a cure to boredom. 30 years back you were a pioneer if you used internet daily but today you will be a one of many billions. If there was any advantage of using internet it already has been reaped in last 30 years. Now we are just scrapping the bottom of the barrel.

Re: Ask HN: What AI tools do you use to boost productivity?

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Post by capableweb » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 10:24 AM UTC

esperent wrote: post #10

35mm wrote: post #8

Perplexity[1] for research when writing articles and video scripts. It’s like vanilla GPT-4 but provides references. [1] perplexity.ai

Is it using GPT-4? I couldn't see the model they use mentioned on the website.

Doesn't seem to be GPT4, token speed is too fast for that

Re: Ask HN: What AI tools do you use to boost productivity?

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Post by vasili111 » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 11:38 AM UTC

zackees wrote: post #13

I use Chat GPT 4 for all coding. I’ve learned some amazing prompts that will add features to existing code.

Could you please share your prompts?

Re: Ask HN: What AI tools do you use to boost productivity?

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Post by afpx » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 11:52 AM UTC

PoignardAzur wrote: post #9

I use ChatGPT to get started, or as a rubber duck. I use Copilot when I'm coding.

I’ve been rubber ducking things since 1999. Kinda like LLM’s “think step by step”.

Re: Ask HN: What AI tools do you use to boost productivity?

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Post by aCoreyJ » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 12:40 PM UTC

phind.com, good interface, doesn't constantly log you out

Re: Ask HN: What AI tools do you use to boost productivity?

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Post by ptyyy » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 1:52 PM UTC

I was using Github Copilot, however I just ended my subscription because I wasn't using it enough despite being elbow deep in code every day. Most of the time the integrations that I use (JetBrains Rider and VS Code) wouldn't function correctly or I'd constantly be logged out. When the integrations _were_ working, the suggestions would be decent but occasionally when doing something like converting jquery to vanilla javascript I'd end up spending more time debugging the result of the suggestion than if I had just done the conversion myself.

Otherwise, I use ChatGPT to help me write tickets/user stories for work as well as for generating test cases for my QA engineers to follow.

Re: Ask HN: What AI tools do you use to boost productivity?

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Post by ravenstine » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 2:02 PM UTC

I actually use the OpenAI playground most of the time, both for coding and for asking questions. It's a bit less chatty without me having to engineer the prompt as much. It also allows me to edit assistant responses so that future prompts are based on corrections.