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Ask HN: How have you applied AI in your life, work or hobbies?
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#12I have spent so much time prodding the edges and trying to break it that I kind of forgot that I could be using it to be productive.
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#13ChatGPT, premium, basically replaced googling documentation.
I have found quite a few errors in generate response though, but 90% of the time it gives me what I need.
Its also pretty good for generating boilerplate code.
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#14I am using free OpenAI's Playground (faster response than ChatGPT, but it is the same davinci) to make UI texts and docs for my side webapp project, including translations. For now it is just "Explain it nicer:" plus seed with some topic context, and then "In German", "In French"... I think soon I can probably do an entire customer support work over email in any foreign language which I may not even know much but wit…
Ha, ChatGPT helping you create a literal implementation of the Chinese room, extending it to different languages. Edit: come to think of it, actually not (because the operator in the Chinese room has no understanding), but is helping you ChatGPT understand the questions (I presume?).
No, I don't use it to gather knowledge because I know ChatGPT makes a lot of mistakes, it requires human to correct it.
So I just use it to enhance ideas and as linguistic beautifier. E.g. run the seed (I mean prompt here) "I created web application to send files, explain nicely why it is better than FTP", and it does quite good but e.g. mentions SSL and that it helps prevent unauthorized access to files, which is weak because that is not what SSL/TLS is for. So the prompt and answer requires a little adjustment steps. Once I am happy with English explanation I ask for translations.
More often I have some bullet points description of topic which is kind of draft, something which doesn't look nice to be shown to user, so I just add "Make it professional text:".
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#15English is not my mother language, Im now level up my English skill with ChatGPT
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#16Here are my cases
GitHub CoPilot : I come from embedded engineering background, but now working in web tech space. CoPilot helps as a very good assistant when I am working with TypeScript. Essentially lesser number of lookups now to Google & StackOverflow
Content creation : I take help of ChatGPT to give me some pointers when I am about to write on a topic / blog post. For tech articles, it's a good help. Helps correct grammar, change content to professional tone.
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#17I use AI (ChatGPT) when I can't come up with a title for some templates or article blogs: https://www.ratherlabs.com/blog
For these cases, ChatGPT is really helpful and useful!
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#18By generating AI waifus.
You should try it, research shows it to boost self esteem and confidence
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#19I write more. I think writing can be broken down into three main things - the idea, the structure of how you laid it out, and the style. Now I don't have to care about the style, I can focus on having clear thoughts and good ideas. It's like autoformatter for programming. And who formats their code manually these days?
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#20I used it to explore math and computer science concepts. I tried it with one I knew before and then moved forward.