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

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Post by throwuwu »

sgt wrote: post #73

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 int…

It’s very important to qualify this with which model you are using. 3.5 and 4 are very different in the quality of answers they give, the version numbering is deceptive.

As a side note, although I can’t confirm this it seems like the general quality of answers for both 3.5 and 4 decreased over time. I suspect they are doing further RLHF which has shown to make the model stupider for lack of a better word.

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

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Post by camjw »

ftxbro wrote: post #76

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.

Is this for real? They called it a Sentient Killer Drone?

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

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Post by oersted »

petemir wrote: post #82
oersted wrote: post #34

MirrorThink is able to search and read scientific papers to answer serious scientific questions and find solutions to deep engineering problems. It is also GPT-4 for free (for now). https://mirrorthink.ai/

fyi, he self-identified as GPT-3, and did not seem to be "aware" that he was specialized in science, but in "a wide range of topics". Edit: and I strongly suggest you create a "Delete your account" page or at least a way to contact the person responsible to do it :).

There's not a even a logout button yet :) Noted, you are right.

Yes interestingly GPT-4 identifies as GPT-3, and you need to be quite explicit about asking it to search for the answer in papers (see collapsed prompt).

But it is excellent at using the content of papers to ground itself, it is really hard to make it hallucinate or provide evidence for scientifically incorrect claims. And it is so much faster than searching for whole papers and reading through them.

We are focusing on the core value of giving it access to scientific knowledge right now, but we are working hard to mature everything surrounding it too.

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

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Post by ChildOfChaos »

I'm still trying to find a good work flow.

But I like to ask Bing questions, if i have a simple thought of 'what does this mean' or 'how does this work' to get a high level overview of something that is not vital that I know everything, it's just something I heard and realised I had no idea about what it was/how it worked.

And i've started using heypi.com as a personal coach, just talking through anything I am feeling/struggling with and i'm really liking that at the moment. I've felt for the longest time I could do with someone to bounce ideas around or talk to about life and struggled to find someone that understood my nonsense and overthinking, AI seems to be a good job with it and i don't have to worry about being insecure with what I am talking about as it's just an AI.

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

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Post by Surplus7421 »

sgt wrote: post #88
Surplus7421 wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you provide an example prompt illustrating the general types of questions that you are asking, with which it seems to struggle?

It's been a few weeks ago, but I recall asking ChatGPT about models in Django, which on the surface it often gets perfect. However, when I asked that the model in question needs to be unmanaged and backed by a SQL view (which I pasted), which had previously been applied from a migration script, it became pretty obvious that ChatGPT is just putting together sentences that are highly likely to be true, but not really u…

Can you provide the exact prompt?

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

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Post by oefrha »

lonelos wrote: post #14

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/

Yeah, Phind has replaced Google for half of my searches. My only small complaint is reliability — occasionally I get “inference service not available” (paraphrased) and have to regenerate once or more.
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