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Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?

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Oh wow. Every sentence in your comment just makes it progressively worse.

What you’re creating is outright dangerous if not actively malicious. You’re targeting inexperienced retail investors, and giving them financial advice that you’ve pulled out of an LLMs arse.

Somebody is going to get hurt, and you are without going to get sued over it. It’s not an if, but when.

EDIT: s/ u/ i/

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?

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I use Phind.com + co-pilot + GPT-4 to write code daily. I just tried using Bard for summarizing my blog post as it has a larger context window than GPT-4 and it worked really well, so I'm adding that to my workflow.

Separately I like combining serper.dev and Scrapingbee with GPT-4 / langchain to summarizing scientific articles and news for me on top of my (ugly non-sharable) AI scripts, but they're basic

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?

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Am I the only one who isn't using ChatGPT on a regular basis?

Though I've made a few attempts to use it, generally I already know the answers to most trivial questions. And by going into more complex questions and scenarios, it becomes apparent that ChatGPT lacks a deep understanding of the suggestions it provides. It turns out to be a pretty frustrating experience.

Also I've noticed that by the time I've crafted intricate prompts, I could have easily skimmed through a few pages of official docs and found a solution.

That said, considering the widespread buzz surrounding ChatGPT, it's entirely possible that I may simply be using it incorrectly.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?

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Phind is a GPT powered search engine optimized for developers / technical documentation. It searches the web and tries to aggregate results from multiple web sites. Although there are instances where it references outdated versions of libraries, on balance, it significantly reduced my time spent on technical research. https://www.phind.com/

For me, the beauty of Phind is that it will wade through the ad ridden web 3.0 hellscape to get an answer for me in plain text. I am not sure exactly how much of that process is to do with the language model per se. Probably basic vector store distance measures and traditional indexing paired with text extraction would do the job "just as well". I don't really need the natural language spin on top (I think).

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?

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As someone with access to the Air Force Donovan LLM tools with Scale, I personally think their SKD (Sentient Killer Drones) tool is one to keep an eye on for the future. Imagine Sydney but she's mad at you and she knows where you live and she's embodied in a high tech drone packed with explosives.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?

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My favorite thing to use ChatGPT for is a personal tutor. I've been able, for my own intellectual interest, to educate myself about some topics in math and CS that have so far eluded me. The descriptions it generates are better than anything I've found elsewhere and if it's not clear I can say things like "explain the above for an audience with a background in computer programming" and it will re-attempt the explanation.

Rather ironically I'm using ChatGPT to teach me about AI, explaining concepts like tensors and attention layers. It's a great way to make sure I'm in good with Roko's Basilisk since my AI-generated immortal soul will be able to cite my ChatGPT log as proof that I helped bring the Basilisk into existence.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?

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I'll try for some more constructive input: This is a good idea, if you properly couch it. Just as an investor must understand they can lose money when investing, they must understand this sort of input won't always be entirely accurate (much like the evaluation by a real human wouldn't be). A well informed human being gets their information from many sources.

If you can manage to get your users to actually understand this, I think this is a very cool idea. Following a giant stream of news about your big stocks is tedious as hell and anything that can reduce that workload is a good idea.

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