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Re: Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes

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Post by sleepingreset »

dbish wrote: post #20
mariocesar wrote: post #6

Love it! I like that the site is straight to action, but I think it could really benefit from a walkthrough. Here’s an idea! It would be great if we had an introduction to the site right in the prompt! to help understand its main purpose right from the start. It'll be great if the first thing you see is [Explain what "delve into" is] as a prompt suggestion. Next, it will reply with, "It’s for exploring topics deeply,…

My 2 cents here is that it’s less obvious that this would be a net positive, people fall into two camps on these type of getting started suggestions. Many will say this very guided walk through is an obvious useful feature, and many will say that it annoys them. I’ve gathered a lot of feedback on things like this for a few different sites and apps from senior UX designers and PMs who contradict eachother on improveme…

perhaps consider a tutorial you can close with just one click? those always seem a good compromise

Re: Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes

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Post by voiper1 »

spdustin wrote: post #3

If "delve" was meant to be an in-joke, I just wanted you to know: I got it. I also have a Custom GPT "AutoExpert (Chat)" [0] that several reviewers have called "the perfect Rabbit Hole GPT" due to the way it leads users through learning a topic. You might dig it, especially since free tier users have access to these now. [0]: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-LQHhJCXhW-autoexpert-chat

Wow, I find this very useful. The eliciting an expert, alternative experts, oppositional viewpoints... fascinating.

We're just getting started on what we can do with LLMs!

Re: Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes

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Post by glenstein »

wiremine wrote: post #78

Taking a step back: The UX/UI for LLMs in general are very immature. We're in the very early days of to best interact with these tools. We need more experimentation like this to help figure out what works, and doesn't work. Kudos!

I will say the bare bones chat interfaces are so so much better than the awful copilot side panes, and quasi-material designed to death Google attemps at interfaces so far. I am sure with multi-modal, and with special cases for deep research there may be improvements, but insofar as straight text chat is concerned I think the simplest interfaces are hard to improve upon.

Re: Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes

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Post by hazn »

eganist wrote: post #46
gfiorav wrote: post #13

This is very good. I can't put my finger on it, but it seems more important than a mere "gimmick." I noticed that if you click on a topic already explored, it won't open again. That's cool, I'd make it snap back to the pane where it's open. Kudos! This is an interesting perspective on how we really need to put a little more effort into the UX of LLMs.

> I can't put my finger on it, but it seems more important than a mere "gimmick." Let me see if I can articulate it. You know how a human conversation can have multiple threads? And ten minutes in, you find the topic has totally changed and you're trying to figure out the original topic? Sometimes you can get back to it, sometimes you can't, right? Obviously it's not quite the same when you can see prompt history, bu…

also beautiful feature of nested comment threads, like this very orange site :)

Re: Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes

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Post by dbish »

sleepingreset wrote: post #81
dbish wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My 2 cents here is that it’s less obvious that this would be a net positive, people fall into two camps on these type of getting started suggestions. Many will say this very guided walk through is an obvious useful feature, and many will say that it annoys them. I’ve gathered a lot of feedback on things like this for a few different sites and apps from senior UX designers and PMs who contradict eachother on improveme…

perhaps consider a tutorial you can close with just one click? those always seem a good compromise

compromise, the father of all mediocre designs

Re: Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes

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Post by owenpalmer »

owenpalmer wrote: post #87

I really, really love this. Even after using it for just a few minutes, I'm sold. Excellent work, will it be open source at some point?

One critique is that I wish there was a feature to manually make a word highlighted. It's pretty good at figuring out where to branch, but for really lexically dense topics, it would be nice to specify it without needing to type in the chat. Perhaps a "hover for definition" feature would suffice, similar to Wikipedia.

Re: Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes

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Post by GrinningFool »

This is pretty great, provides a nice set of breadcrumbs for a deep dive into any rabbit hole.

Once thing that threw me off was when I went to the original panel and clicked a second topic, it cleared out the panes that I had explored off the first topic. I had to discover they weren't really lost by re-clicking. I think it would be better if there was some visual indicator they were still there - perhaps the topic (and sub-topics) get collapsed but are still visible with the heading of the selected topic?

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