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Re: Show HN: DocsGPT, open-source documentation assistant, fully aware of libraries

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Post by hackernewds »

Vespasian wrote: post #34
jacooper wrote: post #18

Man, imagine If you can run it locally and let it parse all of your documents, so you can ask it questions like when does my passport expires, or what is my Wife's ID number and so on.

The future will most likely be "upload it to the cloud and ask the question there". Really sad but but it seems like most people seem to not care about privacy even for the most sensitive parts of their lives. Or even worse they mistrust "the government" but place great trust in "companies which are easily pressured or raided by more than one government". It doesn't make sense at all. (Edit: I don't think a well run…

You merely need to see the Twitter example to see how risky monopoly-level tech is in the wrong hands. Imagine they have access to all politicians DMs now, ripe for blackmail and kompromat

Re: Show HN: DocsGPT, open-source documentation assistant, fully aware of libraries

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Post by Kiro »

mdmglr wrote: post #39

So just so I understand- this is all based on taking input from the user, injecting it in a template prompt that instructs chatgpt to answer the question based on providing it all the source material? What happened to building your own models to run offline?

That's like complaining that a musician doesn't build their own piano. Or actually, it's like asking why they don't build their own piano factory. No sole developer has the skills or resources to build something like GPT. Even if it was open source no user would be able to run it locally anyway.

Re: Show HN: DocsGPT, open-source documentation assistant, fully aware of libraries

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Post by johnywalks »

eyegor wrote: post #27

This is a cool idea. Right now my goto tends to be https://devdocs.io/ , but the idea of a conversational type of layer is fascinating. It's always a struggle in a new set of docs trying to figure out their phrasing for merge/join/combine or how they describe aggregations for example. A lot of the time when you're looking at documentation, you're trying to look up "how to do x (with y)" but most docs are written in a…

What ChatGPT can do combine knowledge and provide personalised examples. This is usually done manually and it takes hours of research with trial & error.

Re: Show HN: DocsGPT, open-source documentation assistant, fully aware of libraries

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Post by shzhdbi09gv8ioi »

gth158a wrote: post #44

In the screenshot, the last sentence reads: >"This will return a new DataFrame with all the columns from both tables, and only the rows that match the 'key' column". That is incorrect. The 'how' parameter is 'left' not 'inner'.

Are you insinuating that ChatGPT gives incorrect answers? Careful about the pitchforks.

Re: Show HN: DocsGPT, open-source documentation assistant, fully aware of libraries

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Post by shzhdbi09gv8ioi »

Kiro wrote: post #42
mdmglr wrote: post #39

So just so I understand- this is all based on taking input from the user, injecting it in a template prompt that instructs chatgpt to answer the question based on providing it all the source material? What happened to building your own models to run offline?

That's like complaining that a musician doesn't build their own piano. Or actually, it's like asking why they don't build their own piano factory. No sole developer has the skills or resources to build something like GPT. Even if it was open source no user would be able to run it locally anyway.

No, you completely miss the point.

It's like complaining that a musician cannot practice their instrument without software that requires you to be always-online.

> Even if it was open source no user would be able to run it locally anyway.

You are just stating this, it does not make it true. Several of us are running GPT-3 workloads locally.

Re: Show HN: DocsGPT, open-source documentation assistant, fully aware of libraries

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Post by shrimpx »

zerop wrote: post #20
bfeynman wrote: post #19

This is really the quality of projects we're upvoting? This is a python script that calls another API.

It's not about this project. It's a use-case of ChatGPT someone has explored. ChatGPT is new and we all want to learn about how it works in many new use cases.

Btw this project doesn't use ChatGPT, it uses text-davinci-003.

Re: Show HN: DocsGPT, open-source documentation assistant, fully aware of libraries

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Post by [deleted] »

kfarr wrote: post #25
grensley wrote: post #22

Seeing https://github.com/arc53/docsgpt/blob/main/application/combi... is just fascinating to me. It's absolutely where this all is headed, but to see it as source code evokes something in me.

It's like the new crud but instead of designing the database tables and columns you're tweaking the prompts.

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Re: Show HN: DocsGPT, open-source documentation assistant, fully aware of libraries

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Post by sorokod »

gth158a wrote: post #44

In the screenshot, the last sentence reads: >"This will return a new DataFrame with all the columns from both tables, and only the rows that match the 'key' column". That is incorrect. The 'how' parameter is 'left' not 'inner'.

The first paragraph in the "What is..." section states that the purpose is to provide answers. Nowhere does it say that answers should be correct or accurate by any measure.

That this is not a problem for many is worrying.

Re: Show HN: DocsGPT, open-source documentation assistant, fully aware of libraries

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Post by shrimpx »

mdmglr wrote: post #39

So just so I understand- this is all based on taking input from the user, injecting it in a template prompt that instructs chatgpt to answer the question based on providing it all the source material? What happened to building your own models to run offline?

A trained AI model is a platform that you can build applications on. Pretty sure >90% of the developers in this space will be building applications, not models. Kinda like how the vast majority of mobile developers build mobile apps, not mobile operating systems. True, this particular application is pretty simple, but early applications are.
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