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

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Post by krageon »

messe wrote: post #108
krageon wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yes, and the way to solve them having no info is to give them an easy start and guide them to next steps they can actually work with. In my opinion it is not useful to take a service that seeks to solve something and bury them in "you will get sued" comments. It's hateful and won't lead anywhere good.

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

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Post by unshavedyak »

emehex wrote: post #120
ghaff wrote: post #109

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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...

Yea, i'm similar. I use GPT4 as a sort of "thought/idea search engine". Where i use Kagi (my Search engine) when i need to find something i already know or when i know there is a concrete answer that i might (definitely) not trust GPT on. However i use GPT when i am exploring new concepts, learning terminology, relationships, etc.

GPT is super prone to error on any niche thing, be it subtle nuance or concrete details, but i don't actually find it to be any more or less reliable to the state of the web. Ie most content i consume from the web is full of errors, incorrect facts, etc. I don't find my suspicion of this to be any different than that of GPT. However GPT has a great way of having the relationships to error-ridden results in the web already established. I can ask it about this web of things to get a better understanding when i drill into concrete facts via standard search.

GPT is far from a gimmick in my usage, but i also don't think it's revolutionary yet. I use it because i'm exploring and finding it useful, but also because each new leap OpenAI makes is pretty damn impressive. This week they're rolling out Plugins i believe. Every step they take is fun to be with, fun to use, fun to experience. That alone is worth the $20/m for me.

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

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Post by unshavedyak »

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/

I wish Phind would "autoGPT" a bit more, though. It often feels like Phind just grabs the top X results and makes a reply from those. If i was searching and those results came up i'd often skip them.

Strangely i use ChatGPT4 every day but am using Phind less and less. When i have something to search the web for, Kagi is faster for me. When i want to search GPT4 (thoughts/whatever) ChatGPT is faster for me. Phind is cool, but kinda feeling like the worse version of each.. if that makes sense.

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

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Post by unshavedyak »

mherrmann wrote: post #43
bartkappenburg wrote: post #39

So, everyone's favorite is the one they built themselves?

Maybe that's the power of ChatGPT. That it is so adaptable to very individual use cases that people can apply to it to precisely their context.

Based on how easy it can be to write ChatGPT Plugins when GPT can write them for you, i could see this becoming more and more true.

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

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Post by unshavedyak »

interleave wrote: post #63
bartkappenburg wrote: post #39

So, everyone's favorite is the one they built themselves?

Yup! At least for me, I wanted ChatGPT to be native and keyboard-first :)

Got an example of it? I too want a nicer UX around my ChatGPT Plus sub (ie not API based).

Frankly a cli version that could pipe into my code editor (Helix) would be amazing.

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

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Post by alexb_ »

krageon wrote: post #131
messe wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> A well informed human being gets their information from many sources They're actively targeting uninformed, inexperienced investors though.

Yes, and the way to solve them having no info is to give them an easy start and guide them to next steps they can actually work with. In my opinion it is not useful to take a service that seeks to solve something and bury them in "you will get sued" comments. It's hateful and won't lead anywhere good.

I don't care how "hateful" I'm being. Making a LLM do stock picks and then telling people who don't know any better that it's a reliable way to invest money is something that will cause someone to lose their savings. It's not just about them getting sued - it's about them causing gigantic harm to someone's actual life. Plus, if you take a look at their site, it's clear they're also involved with web3/crypto nonsense, which has stolen quite enough money from honest people already.

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

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Post by TeMPOraL »

elicksaur wrote: post #118
linsomniac wrote: post #111

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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...

I think GP means people are being too perfectionist with GPT-4. Between things you're an expert on, and things you have no first clue about, there's also a vast space of things you understand to some degree - enough to let you apply intuition, common sense. In this space, you'll be able to spot rather quickly if GPT-4 is making things up, while still benefiting greatly from when it's being right.

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

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Post by messe »

krageon wrote: post #131
messe wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> A well informed human being gets their information from many sources They're actively targeting uninformed, inexperienced investors though.

Yes, and the way to solve them having no info is to give them an easy start and guide them to next steps they can actually work with. In my opinion it is not useful to take a service that seeks to solve something and bury them in "you will get sued" comments. It's hateful and won't lead anywhere good.

I’m being blunt, not hateful. Not everything needs to be wrapped in nice words and pleasantries for the sake of it.

I find it hard to be constructive toward a project that I strongly feel should not exist and whose existence I believe will be actively harmful.

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