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Re: Show HN: GPTDuck – Ask questions about any GitHub repo

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Post by sebzim4500 »

JLCarveth wrote: post #8

I tried it for my (incomplete) compiler project[0], and the results are quite funny: > This program prints a large string of text to the console. It does this by using a String variable called myLongString, which is initialized with a long string of text. The program begins with the line "program LargeString {" and ends with the line "}". Inside the program, there is a comment that reads "Now let's try a comment". Th…

I'm impressed you got it to do anything. Did it work first time or did you keep clicking 'Submit' until you got a response?

Re: Show HN: GPTDuck – Ask questions about any GitHub repo

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Post by BugsJustFindMe »

penguinten wrote: post #10

Hey guys - creator here. Have hit the Github rate limit and currently not working! Am trying to fix! Thanks for all the support!

Do the request from the browser and that won't happen because the request source will be distributed.

Re: Show HN: GPTDuck – Ask questions about any GitHub repo

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Post by iforgotpassword »

syx wrote: post #6
iforgotpassword wrote: post #2

"Something went wrong, please try again later. If the problem persists, please contact us." Tried several times.

Most likely HN kiss of death, their backend [1] returned 500 [1] https://gptduck-production.up.railway.app/query

Was kinda expecting this but then again it was still only under "new" with 3 votes, so I had doubts that it was maybe just me.

Re: Show HN: GPTDuck – Ask questions about any GitHub repo

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Post by brianjking »

dinkleberg wrote: post #4

I've been thinking about something similar. GPT-3 has dated knowledge on a lot of libraries. If you could feed it the latest source code and docs pages, would it be able to help you write code faster? As others have mentioned, it seems down at the moment. But will be curious to give this a go and see how well it works.

This tool that allows you to add in a web scrape to a ChatGPT prompt is quite cool: https://twitter.com/DataChaz/status/1610556519531089921

Re: Show HN: GPTDuck – Ask questions about any GitHub repo

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Post by freeqaz »

penguinten wrote: post #10

Hey guys - creator here. Have hit the Github rate limit and currently not working! Am trying to fix! Thanks for all the support!

Might be worth asking users to "login with GitHub" to get past the rate limits (the anonymous rate limits are lowwww like 10 per hour).

Logging with GitHub is still lowish but like 1k per hour or so. (IIRC)

Re: Show HN: GPTDuck – Ask questions about any GitHub repo

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Post by msla »

I thought I'd throw it a curveball:

https://github.com/chbarts/particle-abcs

And my question:

> What language is this written in?

The answer:

> This appears to be a poem written in English. It is written in a form that is often used for teaching purposes, in which each letter of the alphabet is associated with a concept related to a particular field of study. In this case, the poem is about quantum field theory and particle physics. The poem is written in a rhyming couplet form and contains many scientific terms that are specific to the field.

Which is entirely correct. I'm impressed.

Re: Show HN: GPTDuck – Ask questions about any GitHub repo

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Post by wizeman »

This appears to be quite nice assuming it works, but I wonder: how does this work?

I thought ChatGPT could only process a very limited context (a few thousand words or so) and this claims to work for repositories The site says: "we will download [the repo] to the server and create embeddings against the code". What kind of embeddings are these?

Re: Show HN: GPTDuck – Ask questions about any GitHub repo

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Post by penguinten »

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #13
penguinten wrote: post #10

Hey guys - creator here. Have hit the Github rate limit and currently not working! Am trying to fix! Thanks for all the support!

Do the request from the browser and that won't happen because the request source will be distributed.

Need to download the files to the server to generate the embeddings!
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