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Ask HN: What do you dislike about ChatGPT and what needs improving?

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Re: Ask HN: What do you dislike about ChatGPT and what needs improving?

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Post by zyruh »

NuclearPM wrote: post #30

“Sorry I can’t do this for you because blah blah blah” What can you do? “Good question! I can do x, y, z…” Do that. “…” “…” “…” “Sorry I can’t do this for you because blah blah blah”

Interesting - I've had that same experience and yet there are times when I've told it to do it anyway that is does it - weird!

Re: Ask HN: What do you dislike about ChatGPT and what needs improving?

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Post by zyruh »

NuclearPM wrote: post #32
zyruh wrote: post #26

Would an interface that "feels" more human be preferable to anyone?

No, why?

Well, LLMs are meant to be conversational - which is a human characteristic. Seems to me that a sterile interface just makes it seem less conversational. Thoughts?

Re: Ask HN: What do you dislike about ChatGPT and what needs improving?

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Post by krpovmu »

1- Sometimes I'm surprised at how easily it forgets the topics discussed in a conversation, and when the conversation goes on for too long, it forgets things that have already been said.

2- The fact that it always tries to answer and sometimes doesn't ask for clarification on what the user is asking; it just wants to answer and that's it.

Re: Ask HN: What do you dislike about ChatGPT and what needs improving?

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Post by zyruh »

krpovmu wrote: post #35

1- Sometimes I'm surprised at how easily it forgets the topics discussed in a conversation, and when the conversation goes on for too long, it forgets things that have already been said. 2- The fact that it always tries to answer and sometimes doesn't ask for clarification on what the user is asking; it just wants to answer and that's it.

Thank you! The lack of memory is a consistent complaint. Thank you for sharing!

Re: Ask HN: What do you dislike about ChatGPT and what needs improving?

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Post by jamestimmins »

Fade_Dance wrote: post #8

#1 problem is how sycophantic they are. I in fact want the exact opposite sort of interaction, where they push back against my ideas and actively try to correct and improve my thinking. Too often I am misled into giant waste of time because they have this need to please coded in to their default response structure. You can say things like "you are a robot, you have no emotions, don't try to act human", but the output…

With Claude I often say “no glazing” and have told it to take the persona of Paul Bettany’s character in Margin Call, a nice enough but blunt/unimpressed senior colleague who doesn’t beat around the bush. Works pretty well.

Re: Ask HN: What do you dislike about ChatGPT and what needs improving?

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Post by jondwillis »

Trying to avoid the things already mentioned:

- Opaque training data (and provenance thereof… where’s my cut of the profits for my share of the data?)

- Closed source frontier models, profit-motive to build moat and pull up ladders (e.g. reasoning tokens being hidden so they can’t be used as training data)

- Opaque alignment (see above)

- Overfitting to in-context examples- e.g. syntax and structure are often copied from examples even with contrary prompting

- Cloud models (seemingly) changing behavior even on pinned versions

- Over-dependence: “oops! I didn’t have to learn so I didn’t. My internet is out so now I feel the lack.”

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