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

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Post by Karunamon »

jonahbenton wrote: post #354
Karunamon wrote: post #319

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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.

Significantly different. OpenAI isn't in the business of building a profile on you and using it to sell your attention to advertisers. The information they have is that which was public and that which was voluntarily provided. There is no privacy violation here, their core business is not at odds with privacy the way that Google is.

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

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Post by nirav72 »

I've been using it to explain my own code. If it can explain it in a way that I believe someone else can understand it - then I know my code is legible to the next developer that will look at it. Also, the process is a sanity check for me and also helps me to further refactor the code.

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

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Post by TrapLord_Rhodo »

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

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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.

use llama index: https://gpt-index.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

The below code takes a list of questions from an excel, and answers each one based on the directory I passed in. I use this for answering Statement of Works for proposals i write as a first path. Usually, I will have a number of different directorys that i pass in to 'Talk' to different intellegences and get a couple different answers for each prompt. One trains on the entire corpus of my past performance. One has a simple document discussing tone and other information, and one in training on only the SOW itself.

   def excelGPT(dir, excel_file, sheet):
    #my GPT Key
    os.environ['OPENAI_API_KEY'] = 'sk-~Your open AI Key Here'
    #Working Directory for training
    root_folder = ''
    documents = SimpleDirectoryReader(root_folder).load_data()
    index = GPTSimpleVectorIndex(documents)
    file_name = dir + excel_file
    

    df = pd.read_excel(file_name, sheet_name=sheet)

    answer_array = []
    df_series = df.iloc[:,0]
    
    for i,x in enumerate(df_series):
        print("This is the index ", i)
        print(x)
        response = index.query(x)
        answer_array.append(str(response))

    zip_to_doc(df_series, answer_array, dir)

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

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Post by jimnotgym »

tbran wrote: post #308
jimnotgym wrote: post #235

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GPT is better than Google for something like, 'how do I implement nested blog post comments in Flask' And much worse than Google for, "site:miguelgrinberg.com nested comments" Unfortunately I don't know the equivalent of Miguel for everything I need to know, so on average I suppose GPT is better. However it also means that you may never discover the Miguel of your domain!

Dude! I just did that search and now I'm reading Miguel's blog. Good stuff! Thank you!

You are most welcome. Now how do we make a search engine that finds the Miguel for every domain?

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

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Post by WalterSear »

lionkor wrote: post #196
Thorentis wrote: post #175

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This could mean the future goes one of the two ways. Engineers get lazy and converge on using only programming languages which AIs understand or have been trained on, or we forget about this waste of time and work on more important problems to solve in society other than the lack of an AI to be our crutch. Sadly, I think the former is more likely.

i think most people will just keep programming the way they do, and the AI hype will mostly die down. People have been saying that C++ is dead for decades, yet here I am writing code in it with a big community of others who do, too.

I'm using GPT to write C++ code for me. I've never worked in C++ before. It's going very well.

I'll describe what a class is supposed to do. It spits out the class files, with the fiddly bits 'left as an exercise to the reader'. I then describe the fiddly methods separately, and it spits those out too.

There's still work to be done, but anything boring is handed to me on a plate.

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

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Post by ChildOfChaos »

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…

Really? I've seen a few people say this, but every time I have tried it, it's been awful, everything it says is so generic and annoying, like it's from a buzzfeed self help article, I would love to use it to help me figure out what I need, what I Can do better, how I can grow etc, I feel kinda stuck in life and i'd love to have some method to figure out what i need to focus on and improve, so that is one of the things I turned to chatGPT first, but my experience has been very poor.

It just spouts out the same generic nonsense you get from googling something like that, things that are not actually helpful, anyone can come up with and is just written by a content farm.

have you found a different way to make it useful?

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

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Post by celnardur »

I just used chatGPT to help me write some Powershell scripts. Here’s the kicker though. I have never wrote a Powershell script before and I have only read some on the basics of functions. However, I know enough about programming in general to still tell where the problem could be. It’s been nice so far. It’s never gotten it right the first time but coding is always an iterative process. We did get there much quicker than I would have alone. It essentially taught me Powershell.

One takeaway though is that (at it current level) I still don’t think it will replace programmers. It’s initial solutions sometimes go in the wrong direction, but because I could still understand the code it wrote, I was able to get it on the right course pretty quickly. It often went like: hey i don’t think you should be technique/structure X could you replace it with Y, and it would often get it much closer after that with some minor bugs to fix.

Overall it actually felt a lot like pair programming with someone who knows all the documentation but not always the best way to approach the problem.

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

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Post by ChildOfChaos »

ornornor wrote: post #397
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’d be terrified to do this: - the insight into your mind that a private for profit company gets is immense and potentially very damaging when weaponized (either through a “whoops we got hacked” moment or intentionally for the next level of adtech) - chatgpt and other LLMs are known to hallucinate. What if it’s advice is wrong or makes you worse in the long term because it’s just regurgitating whatever at you?

I'm hugely curious why people are so worried that some AI has access to some thoughts of yours?

Do you think you are somehow special? Just create a burner account and ask it what you want, everything it gets told, it's seen thousands of times over, does chatGPT or some data scientist somewhere really care that there is someone somewhere that is struggling with body issues, struggling in a relationship or struggling to find meaning in there lives? There are literally millions of people in the world with the same issue.

The only time it might be a little embarrassing is if this info got leaked to friends and family with my name attached to it, else I don't get the problem, it seems to me people have an over inflated sense of self importance, nobody cares.

If i worked at openAI and had full access to everyones chats, I would get bored within five minutes and not even want to read anymore.

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

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Post by toomanyrichies »

Volrath89 wrote: post #244
Marcan wrote: post #203

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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.

You joke, but I hope this doesn’t come to pass. The world does not need more people writing “noone” instead of “no one”, “would of” instead of “would have”, etc.

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

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Post by mlboss »

roflyear wrote: post #356
mlboss wrote: post #350

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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.

Yesterday’s Steve Yegge post talks about it. You can provide text as context but you can also provide a dense representation in the form of text embeddings that capture the context. Today you can manually do it by something like LangChain but in future it will be part of our text editors.
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