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

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Post by codyb »

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…

I’ve never even tried it, so no. Docs are usually sufficient, and reworking prompts just doesn’t look that enjoyable to me.

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

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Post by linsomniac »

(apparently) Unpopular opinion: It's pretty cool that there are so many "look what I made" responses here. This feels like what happens in a renaissance; there aren't the tools so people are making their own. It might also be demonstrating that the tools are helping to speed innovation, allowing people to "punch above their weight".

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

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Post by messe »

greggsy wrote: post #90
messe wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

I’m sure they have a ‘this is not financial advice’ notice, which is likely to be about as effective as those offered by the finfluencers currently being targeted by the Australian Tax Office.

I'd have a bit more (still not much) sympathy for them if they hadn't said they're actively targeting inexperienced investors. That's just inevitably going to fuck someone over. And yeah, a notice like that is about as valid as a warranty-void-if-removed sticker.

I took a look at their site, and it seems like they're pushing NFTs as well, and although their site doesn't seem to mention blockchain, their investor pitch deck does seem to. So many red flags.

It's times like these I think that maybe software engineers should need to be professionally licensed.

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

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Post by messe »

krageon wrote: post #78
jsemrau wrote: post #32

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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…

> A well informed human being gets their information from many sources

They're actively targeting uninformed, inexperienced investors though.

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

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Post by ghaff »

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…

I've played with it for writing text and it was fine for some boilerplate definitional stuff but I could have copy/pasted that pretty trivially too. Maybe could have saved me a few minutes with some starting point listicle stuff too--but would have taken a bunch of rework and additions to be publishable.

Anything that's not straightforward? Even if not flat-out wrong, it lacks any real nuance.

I also played with it for some trivial coding and, again, could maybe have saved me a few minutes but nothing earth shattering.

So, yeah, maybe I'm doing it wrong but it's not remotely a go-to tool.

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