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Re: Tell HN: ChatGPT is fantastic for finding and solving issues in logs

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That's actually the hidden secret. Millions of people are using it to solve their problems quietly - something Google and other companies whose lunch they're eating should be worried about rather than being worried about grand ideas like "AI Safety". Pretty much all of my non-tech family is using it in ways that I never expected: making meal plans, writing school essays, making assignments for students, writing email…

I'm quite curious about some of these applications because I don't really understand what the cognitive work is that's being offloaded. Making meal plans: what is being done here? making a list of meals to eat each day of the week? isn't this just a question of thinking what one would like to eat? why is it easier to have the meals chosen by someone else? Writing school essays: what is the point of this? Aren't schoo…

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Re: Tell HN: ChatGPT is fantastic for finding and solving issues in logs

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I used it to transform cryptic credit card statement items into company names, which then allowed me to query my Gmail archives for receipts and invoices from these vendors, automating a manual process of accounting backup discovery that is the bane of my very existence. I even got GPT-4 to assess whether an email likely relates to an invoice or payment so that I could limit the amount of noise extracted from my emai…

Would you mind sharing the prompt design you have for such tasks. For example, I've been wondering if we can use it for reconciling two statements by auto matching invoices. Wanted to understand how that can be structured in the prompt.

Re: Tell HN: ChatGPT is fantastic for finding and solving issues in logs

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2023-05-04T04:20:42.199366-04:00 penetrati ngnu dbus-daemon[1196]: [session uid=1000 pid=1196] Successfully activated service ' org.xfce.Xfconf' 2023-05-04T04:21:18.294427-04:00 penetrati ngnu wpa_supplicant[913]: wlan0: CTRL-EVEN T-BEACON-LOSS 2023-05-04T04:21:20.447830-04:00 penetrati ngnu wpa_supplicant[913]: wlan0: CTRL-EVEN T-BEACON-LOSS 2023-05-04T04:22:59.419150-04:00 penetrati ngnu systemd[1]: Started session-108.scope - Session 108 of User siebel. 2023-05-04T04:25:01.181760-04:00 penetrati ngnu CRON[363165]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1) 2023-05-04T04:26:48.757845-04:00 penetrati ngnu systemd[1]: session-78.scope: Deactiv ated successfully. 2023-05-04T04:30:42.121839-04:00 penetrati ngnu dbus-daemon[1196]: [session uid=1000 pid=1196] Activating service name='org.xfc e.Xfconf' requested by ':1.24' (uid=1000 p id=3360 comm="xfce4-panel") 2023-05-04T04:30:42.239103-04:00 penetrati ngnu dbus-daemon[1196]: [session uid=1000 pid=1196] Successfully activated service ' org.xfce.Xfconf' 2023-05-04T04:35:01.251472-04:00 penetrati ngnu CRON[367999]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1) 2023-05-04T04:39:01.202453-04:00 penetrati ngnu CRON[369932]: (root) CMD ( [ -x /usr /lib/php/sessionclean ] && if [ ! -d /run/ systemd/system ]; then /usr/lib/php/sessio nclean; fi) 2023-05-04T04:39:01.267940-04:00 penetrati ngnu systemd[1]: Starting phpsessionclean. service - Clean php session files... 2023-05-04T04:39:01.431025-04:00 penetrati ngnu systemd[1]: phpsessionclean.service: Deactivated successfully. 2023-05-04T04:39:01.431258-04:00 penetrati ngnu systemd[1]: Finished phpsessionclean. service - Clean php session files. 2023-05-04T04:40:42.120741-04:00 penetrati ngnu dbus-daemon[1196]: [session uid=1000 pid=1196] Activating service name='org.xfc e.Xfconf' requested by ':1.24' (uid=1000 p id=3360 comm="xfce4-panel") 2023-05-04T04:40:42.214032-04:00 penetrati ngnu dbus-daemon[1196]: [session uid=1000 pid=1196] Successfully activated service ' org.xfce.Xfconf' 2023-05-04T04:40:52.623497-04:00 penetrati ngnu wpa_supplicant[913]: wlan0: CTRL-EVEN T-BEACON-LOSS 2023-05-04T04:45:01.213527-04:00 penetrati ngnu CRON[372890]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1) 2023-05-04T04:49:37.313682-04:00 penetrati ngnu smartd[746]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 190 Airflow_Tempera ture_Cel changed from 60 to 61 2023-05-04T04:50:42.117968-04:00 penetrati ngnu dbus-daemon[1196]: [session uid=1000 pid=1196] Activating service name='org.xfc e.Xfconf' requested by ':1.24' (uid=1000 p id=3360 comm="xfce4-panel") 2023-05-04T04:50:42.229128-04:00 penetrati ngnu dbus-daemon[1196]: [session uid=1000 pid=1196] Successfully activated service ' org.xfce.Xfconf' 2023-05-04T04:54:00.082471-04:00 penetrati ngnu wpa_supplicant[913]: wlan0: CTRL-EVEN T-BEACON-LOSS 2023-05-04T04:55:01.262268-04:00 penetrati ngnu CRON[377718]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1) 2023-05-04T05:00:42.119305-04:00 penetrati ngnu dbus-daemon[1196]: [session uid=1000 pid=1196] Activating service name='org.xfc e.Xfconf' requested by ':1.24' (uid=1000 p id=3360 comm="xfce4-panel") 2023-05-04T05:00:42.199605-04:00 penetrati ngnu dbus-daemon[1196]: [session uid=1000 pid=1196] Successfully activated service ' org.xfce.Xfconf' 2023-05-04T05:01:53.268834-04:00 penetrati ngnu wpa_supplicant[913]: wlan0: CTRL-EVEN T-BEACON-LOSS 2023-05-04T05:01:55.324225-04:00 penetrati ngnu wpa_supplicant[913]: wlan0: CTRL-EVEN T-BEACON-LOSS 2023-05-04T05:02:02.590368-04:00 penetrati ngnu wpa_supplicant[913]: wlan0: CTRL-EVEN T-BEACON-LOSS 2023-05-04T05:02:05.152270-04:00 penetrati ngnu wpa_supplicant[913]: wlan0: CTRL-EVEN T-BEACON-LOSS 2023-05-04T05:02:10.779523-04:00 penetrati ngnu wpa_supplicant[913]: wlan0: CTRL-EVEN T-BEACON-LOSS 2023-05-04T05:02:18.766764-04:00 penetrati ngnu wpa_supplicant[913]: wlan0: CTRL-EVEN T-BEACON-LOSS 2023-05-04T05:02:41.199587-04:00 penetrati ngnu wpa_supplicant[913]: wlan0: CTRL-EVEN T-BEACON-LOSS 2023-05-04T05:02:50.721657-04:00 penetrati ngnu wpa_supplicant[913]: wlan0: CTRL-EVEN T-BEACON-LOSS 2023-05-04T05:05:01.237788-04:00 penetrati ngnu CRON[382556]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1) 2023-05-04T05:06:43.123423-04:00 penetrati ngnu systemd[1]: Started session-115.scope - Session 115 of User siebel.

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