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Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?

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Post by WASDx »

thih9 wrote: post #225
ricklamers wrote: post #195

So much: - generate AWK to transform text - modify python script to make it multithreaded (when this worked first go I was very mindblown) - explain concepts that I half understand in clear language, eg explain sharpe ratio and show me the math - “what do people usually call” type questions. Like what are common job titles for people who do X and Y? - proof read my emails and make suggestions given a stated goal - se…

> modify python script to make it multithreaded (when this worked first go I was very mindblown) Sounds intriguing, could you elaborate? Which gpt did you use? What was the input like and what did the gpt produce?

I did this already with Codex in the playground, definitely works for ChatGPT as well. Just paste code and tell it to make a loop run in parallel with X threads. I've had it produce code using either multiprocessing or asyncio.

Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?

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Post by imiric »

I might be in the minority here, but I'm not using any AI tools so far, probably to my detriment.

I don't trust it with my data, and won't rely on such tools until I can self-host them, and they can be entirely offline. There is some progress in this space, but they're not great yet, and I don't have the resources to run them. I'm hoping that the requirements will go down, or I might just host it on a cloud provider.

The amount of people who don't think twice about sending these services all kinds of private data, even in the tech space, is concerning. Keyloggers like Grammarly are particularly insidious.

Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?

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Post by e-brake »

pishpash wrote: post #173
e-brake wrote: post #154

For compliance, I have been using it to complete cheesy "security training" videos and quizzes that we are forced to watch in the organization for insurance purposes. The videos are so bad, the training is ineffective anyways. We used to load them all on mute at the same time every quarter, click through as fast as possible to get them out of sight, which is considered a metric for how valuable the videos are (how mu…

How does this work exactly? What is ChatGPT doing for you?

For each cheesy training video, playwright opens the page, runs a timer, clicks an element to load the quiz page, copies the question and possible answers, and sends them to the GPT-4 API for the best possible solution, clicks on the element that was answered as the most likely solution, and repeats. Since these video/quizzes are recurring and terrible, it was worth automating

Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?

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Post by Volrath89 »

Marcan wrote: post #203
barbarr wrote: post #40

For coding, I've been using it like Stack Overflow. It really decreases my barrier to doing work because I can ask lazy follow-up questions. For example, I might start out by asking it a question about a problem with Pandas like "How do I select rows of a dataframe where a column of lists of strings contains a string?". After that, GPT realizes I'm talking about Pandas, and I'm allowed to ask lazy prompts like "how d…

Thank you for your well written response. I found it informative as I'm also currently exploring ways to leverage ChatGPT in my daily workflow. I also found it interesting that your answer kind of mirrors the writing style of ChatGPT, especially at the end there. I'm not saying you used it to write that response by the way, just that it may become more and more common for people to adopt this style the more ChatGPT's…

I suppose it was part of the "joke", but YOUR answer is the one written in ChatGPT style, not OP.

I was thinking that maybe in the near future it will be "better" to write with a couple of mistakes here and there just to prove your humanity. Like the common "loose" instead of "lose" mistake, it will be like a stamp proving that you are a human writing.

Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?

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Post by avoaja »

- It helps me find better ways to write code.

- Helps me write LinkedIn recommendations for friends (after I give it context)

- Helped me write other official communication

- I’m learning Java, it helped me solve a one-to-many relationship problem. I would have struggled to articulate the problem in a Google search.

- I hardly use stack overflow these days, unless when chat-gpt is down. (I’ve been try to pay for the subscription for a few days, I don’t know if it has to do with my location)

- I wanted to design simple schemas for a microservice, for learning purpose. And it created all the tables for me. In tabular format!

Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?

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Post by motoboi »

esbeeb wrote: post #214

"Dear ChatGPT, please submit perfectly acceptable and politely worded PR's which elegantly fix all the software bugs in Debian's bug database: https://www.debian.org/Bugs/ I'm referring to all bugs for the upcoming "bookworm" release. The PR's should fulfill all of the Debian project's policies and guidelines. For the AMD64 and ARM64 architectures. Much appreciated. By Monday March 27th, 5:00pm +08, 2023. Thanks!" ht…

What is more spooky is that with the 32k context generating code changes to fix bugs in small codebases based on the bug report is pretty possible.

I guess we'll see that when it's generally available.

Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?

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Post by infosecb »

I recently summarized some interesting use cases for my role as a cybersecurity detection engineer. A few examples:

- Generating boilerplate ADS docs for detection content

- Converting rules between various query formats (e.g. Sigma to Splunk SPL)

- Identifying and normalizing security data

- Brainstorming how to approach novel detection uses cases

In summary, I highly recommend the tool for folks in my field but caution them to approach results with skepticism.

If you’re interested in more details, the full Medium article is here: https://infosecb.medium.com/gpt-4-assisted-detection-enginee...

Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?

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Post by itsuka »

thih9 wrote: post #230
theonlybutlet wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you, I intend on stealing your phrase "skip prose", was trying to find a way to force it to exclude this whilst saving tokens.

I’m unfamiliar with gpt and tokens, what would “skip prose” change?

It is hinting GPT to skip generating unimportant texts such as filler words, while still maintaining coherence in the output.

For example, if I asked GPT "How to make bibimbap?" with the prompt "skip prose", it will give concise list of ingredients and instructions in about ~250 tokens [1]. Without the prompt, it would first explain what bibimbap is and then give a slightly longer instructions, totaling around ~360 tokens.

[1] A token is like a building block of a sentence - it can be a word, a punctuation mark, a number, or even a combination of words. In case you didn't know, Chat API users are charged based on the number of tokens used. So we try to keep it to a minimum.

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Post by sharperguy »

carlmr wrote: post #137
barbarr wrote: post #40

For coding, I've been using it like Stack Overflow. It really decreases my barrier to doing work because I can ask lazy follow-up questions. For example, I might start out by asking it a question about a problem with Pandas like "How do I select rows of a dataframe where a column of lists of strings contains a string?". After that, GPT realizes I'm talking about Pandas, and I'm allowed to ask lazy prompts like "how d…

So on my coding problems I haven't had much luck. It doesn't seem to know Bazel, the Rust code I asked about was completely hallucinated, but it did solve a problem with Azure DevOps I had. I think if the training set did not contain enough of something it can't really think of a solution. What is really nice though it's as you say the refinement of questions. Sometimes it's hard to think of the right query, maybe yo…

I've found that it's much worse for languages like rust than it is for things like typescript and python. The thing AI seems to be really great at is writing boilerplate code like argument parsing for CLI tools.

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Post by nunodonato »

hcentelles wrote: post #240
nunodonato wrote: post #231

Earlier quoted context omitted.

mysql database, with a column to store the embeddings vector (yeah i'm not so fancy to be using pinecone :P)

To keep the "memory", do you pass the embeddings along with the new text prompt in an API call? How do you combine embeddings and text prompts? I don't know much about this, sorry if the question sounds silly.

I explain it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHkdK_9ZnFw&list=PLhZ4HC__ic... (its a bit old, I've made quite a few changes, but the essence is the same)
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