For business, I ask it to generate plans.
Interesting. I asked if for a business plan and it gave me a bunch of useless cruft. I guess that's the plausible average of public business plans anyway.
Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
561–570 of 752 posts
Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
#562Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 t…
Doesn't it require a phone number? What's the best way to create a burner account for it? I'd be interested in how GPT answers that question.
Although i've been running a ChatGPT 4 space via hugging face that doesn't need a AI key or an account, so there is nothing linking it to me.
https://huggingface.co/spaces/yuntian-deng/ChatGPT4
There are a few you can find by searching ChatGPT4 if it gets busy, also this allows you to run GPT 4 for free which is only for plus members right now.
Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
#563Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 thing…
Garbage in, garbage out.
But I am curious about this, is it the case that ChatGPT's training is too generic or is it just a case that most problems are fairly simple and we already know the answers? Not talking about technical things here obviously, more to do with our mental health / self improvement.
Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
#564Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bro documentation is notoriously terrible in almost all spaces. Gpt3.5 is like super Google, and gpt-4 is like a polymath in everything intern. Learning has never been easier for me, I'm stoked.
Also documentation is, how to say, heavily styled in a sense. If you disliked a certain teaching style before you were basically screwed. I've learned some languages purely because the documentation was fun for me personally.
Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
#565GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a powerful language model that can generate human-like text, complete sentences, paragraphs or even longer text based on a given prompt or input. Here are some ways you can use GPT to be productive: Writing: Use GPT to help you write articles, reports, essays, or any other type of text. You can provide GPT with a topic, and it will generate a coherent piece of writing that…
Interesting. What prompt did you use to get GPT to write in third person like that?
Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
#566Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The idea that computers could return wrong answers to appear human, is as old as the Turing Test.
Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
#567Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
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.
Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
#568Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree with this statement a lot. Using Copilot saves you a lot of tedium if you are comfortable with the language already. If you are new to the language, then it might trip you up a bit (at least in its current incarnation). Here is an example where it helps. I tried to initiate a connection to a Mongodb server using Python. While i have used many databases before, I have never used Python and MongoDB together. So…
And you will have no idea whether the solution it presents to you is idiomatic or recommended or contains some common critical flaw or is hopelessly outdated. How can you find out? Back to alt-tabbing to the browser. Sure it may take a bit more time to get going, but then you'll get it right the first time and learn something along the way. Your copilot example is just another iteration of copy-and-paste some random…
Yes because tutorial info on some rando's webpage is never out of date. /s
Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
#569Earlier quoted context omitted.
Me neither, but I think before long people like us are going to be left behind. We're like people who insist on continuing to ride horses in the age of the automobile.
That won't happen, you can't expect to be "left behind" by a tool that's this easy to use. The big downsides of using a LLM will show up long-term, people will be chained to them and won't be able to do simple, trivial things on their own.
Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
#570Earlier quoted context omitted.
> What's the name of that "thing" that does "something" I could remember the name of one adult entertainment star. I thought this is where I can finally put this ChatGPT to use. It told me anything adult is off-limits. I’m glad that OpenAI can decide what’s good and bad for us.
It / OpenAi are not "deciding what is good and bad for us", it is deciding what services they want to provide or not provide. Your pontificating is doing more "deciding what is good and bad for us" (grousing about it's inability to identify the pornstar you're horny for today & dressing it up as some kind of moral high ground) than it is. There are plenty of open source LLM and "AI" models or research to build your o…
Don't put words in the OPs mouth (that's not a euphemism), nowhere in the comment did they indicate their level of sexual arousal.