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Re: Personal Concierge Using OpenAI's ChatGPT via Telegram and Voice Messages

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Not as cool, but there for the lazy: install the Bing app on your phone (I guess you need to be accepted into the beta first?). I use it as a slow-thinking alternative to Google Assistant that usually gives much better answers.

The Bing app isn't as responsive as ChatGPT. I asked it a slightly question about my taxes and it "binged" something weird and gave me a non-answer generic response.

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Great work! Thanks for taking the time to build this and open sourcing it. For me, it scratches on a very real itch. I’ve toyed with the idea of a personal AI assistant to act as a second brain, and help me prioritize and remember things with human intuition (“you can’t afford to delay X, do X today and maybe reach out to Z to set the expectations for delaying Y?”). To me, the greatest strength of LLMs is not their k…

good point, I'm doing this with chatGPT, I use a long conversation with 3.5 to help me write prompts for 4, it's fun, when I hit the rate cap on 4 I'll go back to 3.5 with what 4 came up with, then converse on the topic until my 4 cap lifts, combine that with being able to ask bing for things like links and current information and dalle for image based visualisations makes for an intriguing combination, bard gets a look in to but so far seems a little shy compared to 4 or bing.

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#43

It amazes me to no end that some people would feed private conversations and other sensitive data into an experimental chat bot. Don’t these people not know that ChatGPT it not a mature technology, that does not reliably isolate sessions and may even permanently ingest user data for training purposes? GPT and other LLMs are currently integrated into countless products and hobbyist projects. Expect an avalanche of law…

for commercial snoops you have very strong legal protections over your data if you seek to enforce it legally.

for government snoops you don't have any privacy anyway.

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> a personal AI assistant to act as a second brain, and help me prioritize and remember things with human intuition Everyone wants this, but this is not the product. The current AI offerings are information in --> information out. It is not meant to keep state long term, and it is not meant to be your friend. It is meant to answer questions with the information available to it. You can even see in the example screens…

That's just the case for this bot, but is obviously not the case for ChatGPT. I have a long running conversation with ChatGPT that I use to keep track of a verbal to-do list. I tell it my items with categories (e.g. work, personal, etc.) and estimated times, and then it outputs my complete task list, grouped by category. I then just tell it when I add tasks or complete tasks, and it continually keeps track of and out…

Oh dang, that sounds awesome. So a ChatGPT conversation doesn't have a historical limit? I guess I assumed it would start having to forget things at a certain point.

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#45

This is the new hello world. https://github.com/danneu/telegram-chatgpt-bot https://t.me/god_in_a_bot (demo bot) I tried building this for WhatsApp but Twilio is weirdly expensive. I don't even think Twilio is cheap for sending 2FA tokens.

I'm also on Twilio and yes it is expensive, a longish call (10 mins) comes to about $1.

They charge you for:

* Time spent using the "Twilio Client" (whatever that means)

* Inbound call time

* Transcription of each audio chunk, billing them at a minimum of 15s per function call

* Every time you use their text-to-speech functions (not even that is free)

Re: Personal Concierge Using OpenAI's ChatGPT via Telegram and Voice Messages

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Made something similar recently, but for WhatsApp: https://chatbling.net/ What behaviour would users prefer when uploading a voice message, a) the voice message is transcribed, so speech to text? Or b) the voice message is treated as a query, so you receive a text answer to your voice query? I've done a) for now as mobile devices already let you type with your voice.

dude how did you get Meta to approve your WA Business? I couldn't get verified after like two weeks of trying and gave up :(

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You could have a default "will be wiped after " policy / notification up front, plus an option to change this (in either direction, one way to "only store this in RAM not the DB, and wipe it as soon as I close this window - or maybe after an hour of inactivity", the other way to "please never delete (we reserve the right to delete anyway but will keep for at least Y days/months/whatever)". And also a "delete now" but…

Agreed, giving the user a choice would be best here. Something tells me most users would not change it from whatever the default is, but yeah still good to expose this as a setting which should be doable. Thanks for the input!

Np - and you're probably right that I'm in the minority of people who'd care about having as much granular control as possible... maybe most people would rather something closer to a browser's privacy mode, so just a toggle on and off between very private and don't care about private?

Re: Personal Concierge Using OpenAI's ChatGPT via Telegram and Voice Messages

#48

Not as cool, but there for the lazy: install the Bing app on your phone (I guess you need to be accepted into the beta first?). I use it as a slow-thinking alternative to Google Assistant that usually gives much better answers.

The Bing app isn't as responsive as ChatGPT. I asked it a slightly question about my taxes and it "binged" something weird and gave me a non-answer generic response.

I’ve noticed that bing chat is better if you instruct it not to search anything, that way it will use the model knowledge. I’ve learned to use the model knowledge or the web search results summary depending on what I want. But ChatGPT is still way better for model knowledge because it has fewer restrictions.

I wish they would make this distinction clearer in the UI. Most of the time it can answer without resorting to search, I think it would be better if the user explicitly specifies that they need web results.

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#49
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GPT4 is so much better than 3.5 at virtually everything that I don't think it's worth trying to figure out which ones 3.5 is almost adequate enough for. Also, the pricing is per token, so even with 4 it is close to negligible unless you are loading in a lot of context or your conversation gets very long.

The real problem with 4 is that OpenAI are having trouble keeping up with the demand. So it might not be an option until 4 turbo comes out in 37 hours or whatever their development cycle is these days.

Yea, I find it a fair bit annoying that I pay $20 and have a 25 message cap every 3 hours.

Re: Personal Concierge Using OpenAI's ChatGPT via Telegram and Voice Messages

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's just the case for this bot, but is obviously not the case for ChatGPT. I have a long running conversation with ChatGPT that I use to keep track of a verbal to-do list. I tell it my items with categories (e.g. work, personal, etc.) and estimated times, and then it outputs my complete task list, grouped by category. I then just tell it when I add tasks or complete tasks, and it continually keeps track of and out…

Oh dang, that sounds awesome. So a ChatGPT conversation doesn't have a historical limit? I guess I assumed it would start having to forget things at a certain point.

As far as I’m aware it will definitely forget things as the history grows. You can “remind” it about things to keep them relevant, and I think a cool product built like OP’s project would take that into consideration for long running tasks.
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