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

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Post by r0b05 »

itsuka wrote: post #123

Since I use ChatGPT regularly, I decided to create my own client. I prefer to avoid third-party services that require privilege escalation like Grammarly and Copilot. I have developed distinct profiles for different tasks, each with its own system prompt and input method. After getting the hang of it, I plan to tweak the parameters as well. Here are some of the profiles: Explainer: a default, general purpose Q&A. The…

Fascinating idea.

Can you share some code or screenshots of your client?

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

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Post by roflyear »

alchemist1e9 wrote: post #322
spaceman_2020 wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly how I’m using it as well. It’s absolutely incredible as a coding productivity tool.

Same here and GPT-4 was definitely a noticeable improvement.

You know, I thought so but then recently I asked it to code me a function to do a financial calc and it just didn't get there at all. It gave me code but it was really poor and didn't do close to what I wanted.

But when I gave it my code it did generate useful data for unit tests. So that's pretty cool.

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

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Post by danielvaughn »

I’ve used it for:

1. Learning about Kubernetes. Asking it all the dumb questions that were hard to google, and that I didn’t want to ask a real engineer.

2. Generating fake relational data for a database.

3. Learning about tracing, and discovering other types of tracing tools apart from dtrace.

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

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Post by jonahbenton »

Karunamon wrote: post #319
VoodooJuJu wrote: post #310

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you explain how ChatGPT's soccer itinerary is any different from the top google search [1] for the subject? Is ChatGPT's response any more useful or meaningfully different from the practice routines at the link? [1] https://www.soccerhelp.com/soccer-practice-plans.shtml

It didn't require using Google, for one. That alone should be worth something.

Why exactly? Privacy? OpenAPI is currently experiencing the fastest- and by choice- absorption of personal and corporate data of any major tech company and so is rapidly growing materially useful and unique personal datasets of large swaths of the digital population. Sure it isn't emails or website visits...yet. Different from Google? Not really.

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

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Post by roflyear »

nibbleshifter wrote: post #267
imiric wrote: post #242

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.…

I don't use them either. I've played around with ChatGPT and Copilot a little, and found that they often are subtly, but very confidently wrong in their output when asked to perform a programming task. Sure you could spend ages refining the prompt etc, but its going to be faster to just write the fucking code yourself in the first place most of the time. Then there's the privacy/security concerns...

Yes unless you understand the problem well it is hard to fix it. Might as well code it yourself.

I suspect the people who find this amazing tech don't program much or are using this very differently than we are. Or program very differently than us.

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Post by roflyear »

mlboss wrote: post #350
f6v wrote: post #312

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My experience was always that most of my time isn’t deducted to writing code. Maybe 10%, the rest us thinking about how the code I write will fit into the existing architecture or accommodate future features.

In very near future your IDE will send the whole codebase as context to LLMs. Then instead of thinking up all possibilities you can just ask. LLM will suggest multiple alternatives and you can select the best when and ask it to implement it.

Don't make stuff up. There is no indication that will happen.

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

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Post by sergiotapia »

1. Built a recommendation engine

2. Asked it to convert many curl requests with funky headers to Elixir code using Req/Httpoison.

3. Massaged data from weird structures to other weirder more custom structures.

lots of other things. it's been a real boon to my productivity.

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

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Post by anonkogudhyfhhf »

hermannj314 wrote: post #349

I have a few conversations going. My most productive is a therapy session with ChatGPT as therapist. I told it my values, my short term goals, and some areas in my life where I'd like to have more focus and areas where I would like to spend less time. Some days we are retrospective and some days we are planning. My therapist gets me back on track, never judges, and has lots of motivational ideas for me. All aligned w…

Can I ask if you have a prompt that you use for this?

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

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Post by sys_64738 »

hermannj314 wrote: post #349

I have a few conversations going. My most productive is a therapy session with ChatGPT as therapist. I told it my values, my short term goals, and some areas in my life where I'd like to have more focus and areas where I would like to spend less time. Some days we are retrospective and some days we are planning. My therapist gets me back on track, never judges, and has lots of motivational ideas for me. All aligned w…

I still use Eliza as my therapist.

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

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Post by anonkogudhyfhhf »

apollo_mojave wrote: post #348

I am a full time language student, and I use GPT to have "conversations" in the language. I can give it a subject (e.g., going through airport customs) and practice my conversation skills. What's also fun is I can feed it a list of vocab that I want it to use, and it'll find ways to put the words in the conversation. I also ask it to go back, look at my responses, and correct for grammar etc. It's shocking how adept…

I want even aware it had good multi language support. I will use it for language practice
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