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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 »

ComplexSystems wrote: post #50

It makes too many mistakes and is just way too sloppy with math. It shouldn't be this hard to do pair-theorem-proving with it. It cannot tell the difference between a conjecture that sounds kind of vaguely plausible and something that is actually true, and literally the entire point of math is to successfully differentiate between those two situations. It needs to be able to carefully keep track of which claims it's…

Yes, I've experienced this especially with spreadsheets. I work in marketing, and I've attempted to use ChatGPT to analyze and summarize large spreadsheets. Sadly, i've learned it can't be trusted to do that.

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

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Post by buggy6257 »

andrewmcwatters wrote: post #48
jamestimmins wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Oh my God, I love it. I would have done Spacey's character, maybe, but the gist is great.

I would take Spacey's character from Baby Driver.

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

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Post by zyruh »

wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #47

Why do you ask? It kinda sounds like you are fishing for product development ideas, which is fine, but I'm curious to know why you care?

Curious if my frustrations line up with what others are experiencing/feeling. Seems like that is the case.

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

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Post by quatonion »

Why you can't download an entire chat as markdown

Copy/Pasting sections of the chat on mobile is laborious

That it still gets manic and starts glazing

That it can remember some things and keeps bringing them up, but forgets other, more pertinent things

If you switch away from it while it is in the middle of generating an image it often cancels the image generation

Image editing accuracy seems to have gone down significantly in quality based on intent.

You can't turn a temporary chat into a permanent one.. sometimes you start a temporary and realize half way it should be permanent - but too late.

The em dashes need to go

And so do the "it's not this, it's that!"

Is it really necessary to make so many lists all the time

Canvas needs a bunch of work

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

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Post by quatonion »

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…

I have no glazing built into my custom instructions, but it still does it.

It used to be a lot better before glazegate. Never did quite seem to recover.

I don't mind us having fun of course, but it needs to pick up on emotional queues a lot better and know when to be serious.

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

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Post by jamestimmins »

netsharc wrote: post #46
jamestimmins wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

How... does it know what this persona is like? I suppose somewhere it's read (or, "gathered input") about this character..

Interesting question. I described what I liked about his character, so maybe it's just using that and is nodding along to the character's name. Maybe it has access to the script or some analysis of the character.
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