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

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I've been using the api in S-GPT [1]. An iOS shortcut that I use to primarily summarize the body text content of a webpage I'm on from the share-sheet. When it can fit the text in the context, I'm pretty happy with the the results.

It also supports sending it your clipboard contents when you launch it and it parses the words "clipboard". Good for when in a pinch.

I mapped some repetitive prompts to my text replacement on my phone that auto-expand when I type in the input field `*`

1: https://www.macstories.net/ios/introducing-s-gpt-a-shortcut-...

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

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Raycast AI (now Raycast Pro). It makes using GPT more accessible and user-friendly by bringing it right to where you need it. Also their take on AI Commands is quite useful. You can create commands with a custom prompt and the prompt will additionally contain the currently selected text. Some example AI commands that are built in (you can of course create your own commands): - Improve Writing - Change Tone to Friendl…

Downside is that you can't select GPT4 for now - probably because users would associate the slowness with Raycast then.

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Promptr is a coding assistant tool that allows you to ask GPT to produce or modify code, and the results will be automatically applied to your file system. https://github.com/ferrislucas/promptr From the README: Promptr is a CLI tool that makes it easy to apply GPT's code change recommendations with a single command. With Promptr, you can quickly refactor code, implement classes to pass tests, and experiment with LLM…

There is also https://github.com/ai-genie/chatgpt-vscode

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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 int…

ChatGPT has zones of competence and your opinion of ChatGPT is likely to be a function of whether or not its competence zones overlap with what you are doing. Early on, ChatGPT knocked a bunch of highly technical questions I sent it out of the park. It trivially reproduced insight from hours of diving through old forums and gave me further info that eventually proved out. More recently, it has completely hallucinated…

> Early on, ChatGPT knocked a bunch of highly technical questions I sent it out of the park

I hear this all the time but never with a transcript. I wonder how much experts “read into” responses to make them seem more impressive. (Accidentally you understand, no malice). Or if in the moment it feels impressive but on review it’s mostly banal / platitudes / vague.

The few times I’ve used it for precise answers they were wrong in subtle but significant ways.

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post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

I agree. Especially because it seems like, almost simultaneously, Google's result quality has just tanked. It's difficult to find good answers to most things that aren't either behind a paywall or written by the company that made them etc. It helped me debug my tractor last week and helped advise me on the correct part numbers and stuff. Things I was unable to find on the open internet without confusion because everyone just had product pages with zero information.

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

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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.

He's probably talking about Matt Wolfe's newsletter and AI tools site: https://www.futuretools.io/
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