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

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Post by linsomniac »

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…

One mistake I've seen people who are unhappy with GPT make is they ask it questions they already know the answer to, topics they are an expert in, and then tear down the response.

Try asking it things you would google for. I'm finding it to be a pretty good "I'd like an answer to this question, I don't want to wade through a bunch of google results trying to find the one that answers this question" engine. Sometimes it fails, but often it's really good.

This is probably why google has an "all hands on deck about AI" going on right now, I've been using google a lot less lately between bing and chatgpt. However, last week I noticed that Google Bard provides an answer PLUS gives reference links, which ChatGPT can't do.

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

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Post by jamesbfb »

As a developer who works with a lesser known ERP (Odoo, which famously has a terrible level of _good_ technical documentation online), PyCharm/co-pilot continues to blow my mind with how well it interprets my workflow when building out code.

It also does a relatively good job of writing unit tests.

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

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Post by tikkun »

For me, in terms of ones I’ve used 10 times or more during the past week:

Chatgpt

An iPhone app to use gpt-4

An ai newsletter that sends me new tools (I’ve found lots of cool tools from it but none that I use regularly)

I think that’s it? Kinda surprising. There are so many gpt powered products I’ve tried but none I’ve stuck with.

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

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Post by tqwhite »

tikkun wrote: post #113

For me, in terms of ones I’ve used 10 times or more during the past week: Chatgpt An iPhone app to use gpt-4 An ai newsletter that sends me new tools (I’ve found lots of cool tools from it but none that I use regularly) I think that’s it? Kinda surprising. There are so many gpt powered products I’ve tried but none I’ve stuck with.

Dude!! URLs please.

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

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Post by sgt »

throwuwu wrote: post #91
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.

Using 3.5

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

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Post by sgt »

Surplus7421 wrote: post #99
sgt wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I would have to redo it.. I cleaned up all my prompts.

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

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Post by elicksaur »

linsomniac wrote: post #111
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…

One mistake I've seen people who are unhappy with GPT make is they ask it questions they already know the answer to, topics they are an expert in, and then tear down the response. Try asking it things you would google for. I'm finding it to be a pretty good "I'd like an answer to this question, I don't want to wade through a bunch of google results trying to find the one that answers this question" engine. Sometimes…

If the answer is wrong for topics you do know, why trust the answers for things you don’t? What’s going to be the term for Gell-Mann amnesia[1] but applied to LLMs instead of the media?

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190808123852/http://larvatus.c...

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

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Post by mnky9800n »

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…

Perhaps that is because you haven't used my top ten prompts for software devs who are worried about losing their jobs!

But also yes, it is not the greatest thing ever. It is mostly mediocre for me as well. And lots of the most exciting things, like DMing a dungeons and dragons campaign, is actually mostly terrible because it recreates the same scenarios over and over and it never remembers any of the information that a DM should know like anything on your character sheet, when to ask you to roll the dice, or even which version of the rules its supposed to be using even if you ask it directly to use that particular version of the rules. But in fact, it is wild that it has read all of the rules. I was using it to run a star wars saga edition game for myself (I'm not that lonely I promise). And at some point it occured to me this is all copywrited information, is it allowed to read this and then regurgitate it to me? How much of this is fair use? If I wrote a campaign for the system could I regurgitate rules like this in teh campaign book? Who owns all this material that is created not from imagination but from highly complex combinatorics?

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

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Post by emehex »

ghaff wrote: post #109
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 f…

ChatGPT4 has replaced ~99% of my Google/StackOverflow searches...
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