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Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?

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GPT and other language models have the potential to enhance productivity and efficiency in various industries. Developers and professionals can use GPT with other tools and APIs to streamline their workflows, automate tasks, and gain new insights. For instance, socialbiogen.com that I made is a web application that uses openAI api to generate personalized social media bios based on the user input. While GPT can also be used for writing or correcting code, it's important to note that language models are not always accurate. Overall, these tools have become increasingly valuable for automating tasks, generating ideas, and saving time.

Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?

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post #732

GPT and other language models have the potential to enhance productivity and efficiency in various industries. Developers and professionals can use GPT with other tools and APIs to streamline their workflows, automate tasks, and gain new insights. For instance, socialbiogen.com that I made is a web application that uses openAI api to generate personalized social media bios based on the user input. While GPT can also…

Was this generated by Chat GPT!?

Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?

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post #732

GPT and other language models have the potential to enhance productivity and efficiency in various industries. Developers and professionals can use GPT with other tools and APIs to streamline their workflows, automate tasks, and gain new insights. For instance, socialbiogen.com that I made is a web application that uses openAI api to generate personalized social media bios based on the user input. While GPT can also…

Was this generated by Chat GPT!?

I'd bet it is, it has the same structure: statement, an example "for instance", more info "futhermore" ending in the "in conclusion"/"overall" words very common. And the note about inaccuracy is a classic tell.

Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?

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For coding, I've been using it like Stack Overflow. It really decreases my barrier to doing work because I can ask lazy follow-up questions. For example, I might start out by asking it a question about a problem with Pandas like "How do I select rows of a dataframe where a column of lists of strings contains a string?". After that, GPT realizes I'm talking about Pandas, and I'm allowed to ask lazy prompts like "how d…

I find it is like having a brilliant intern that is not super consistent in taking their antipsychotic medication

Ah yes, a Bing Chat user.

Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

We don’t actually know what “thinking” is, though, so I’m not sure it’s possible to say “this model can’t think”.

> We don’t actually know what “thinking” is How about: thinking is to make sense of the world (in general) and decide how to respond to it.

Now you’ve just rephrased thinking. What is „making sense of the world“?

Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?

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I use GPT4 for Powershell mostly. It does all kinds of gymnastics that I could have never even dreamed of. I am far more Jobs than I am Wozniak. GPT is like having a WOZ with you all the time. Granted it is one who takes hallucinogens every once in a while.

Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?

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post #80

I noticed my productivity with GPT was closely tied to how quickly I could access it. For example, Copilot is so useful to me because it's directly integrated into the browser. So I decided to build a Spotlight Search-esque interface to GPT that I could access anywhere [1]. It's been useful in answering quick questions or drafting documents. [1] https://github.com/JinayJain/gpt-anywhere

Is this an electron app?

I built it using Tauri (https://tauri.app/) so hopefully the bundle sizes are much smaller than Electron's.

Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?

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post #40

For coding, I've been using it like Stack Overflow. It really decreases my barrier to doing work because I can ask lazy follow-up questions. For example, I might start out by asking it a question about a problem with Pandas like "How do I select rows of a dataframe where a column of lists of strings contains a string?". After that, GPT realizes I'm talking about Pandas, and I'm allowed to ask lazy prompts like "how d…

Same here for Stack Overflow. My Google searching for generic CS stuff I tend to forget has pretty much come to a halt.

Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?

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post #682

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right now the app only supports Gmail, so I've limited login to only Google. I'm working on changing this soon! What email provider do you use?

Fastmail with my own domain

Thanks, good to know! I'll add support as soon as I can.

Here is an issue for tracking: https://github.com/shared-recruiting-co/shared-recruiting-co...

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