Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: I made a writing tool that asks questions like Socrates

scraft.ai

21–30 of 54 posts

Re: Show HN: I made a writing tool that asks questions like Socrates

#21

Is this just a wrapper around GPT-3?

Is a weather app just a wrapper around the weather API?

IDK about you but I check the weather each day by just reading the Weather API JSON response.

Sometimes I make mistakes.

Re: Show HN: I made a writing tool that asks questions like Socrates

#23

I like the idea, but having to log in with Google made me pause, and then I closed the page. I am OK to register, even if I think that a quick demo should be possible without this step. But I won't register with Google or Facebook or anything except an email.

same here. authorizing google and keeping tokens around. I am against it

Re: Show HN: I made a writing tool that asks questions like Socrates

#24
This is so cool. I'm a Hyperwrite subscriber and would absolutely consider switching to Scraft.ai if it works as well as I'm imagining. Although GPT-3 can be a powerful ally when writing emails, proposals, documents, etc., on tight deadlines, for me personally, I find it's dreadfully easy to get "stuck" in vicious feedback loops as a result of the language model's tendency to expand rather than react. A great editor will push you to clarify sentences that are vague, improve arguments that are muddled, and (where I'm thinking, Scraft.ai might really shine) is a master of dialectic, poking and prodding at the logical substance of each draft and helping you to realize more clearly at each step of this iterative process what, exactly, it is that you want to say.

I look forward to giving this a shot! It's funny, I'll sometimes spark up a conversation with Socrates in the GPT-3 sandbox if I'm ever looking for a spirited adversary to pick apart an argument before I make it. Explaining one's thoughts to an imaginary interlocutor not only makes writing more fun -- joyful, even -- but in my experience, helps me produce a higher quality product vs. simply asking "mediocre Westworld fascimile of myself, fine-tuned on a corpus of mundane office emails I wrote" to finish my sentences for me.

Re: Show HN: I made a writing tool that asks questions like Socrates

#30

I like the idea, but having to log in with Google made me pause, and then I closed the page. I am OK to register, even if I think that a quick demo should be possible without this step. But I won't register with Google or Facebook or anything except an email.

Same thoughts. Wouldn't prefer using Google to try out a site. I know a lot of developers who will close the page as soon as they're blocked with a Google/Facebook login. The service definitely sounded interesting. Hope to try it when they add an email registration option.
Post reply on HN