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

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Post by enumjorge »

ChildOfChaos wrote: post #98

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 feelin…

> i don't have to worry about being insecure with what I am talking about as it's just an AI

I’d be uncomfortable if there were a digital transcript of my conversations with my therapist stored in some company’s servers, but I get that talking to a machine would be easier than a person for some people/topics.

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

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Post by Matticus_Rex »

sgt wrote: post #115
throwuwu wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

There are probably things you could do to get more out of 3.5, but 4 is waaaaaay, way better for every complex thing I've tried. 3.5 was helpful on some margins when I remembered it, but 4 is a huge part of my workflows now.

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

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Post by huydotnet »

I built https://chatuml.com, a copilot for diagram, the main usecase is when you need to start a diagram but don't know where to start, you can just type out what you have in mind and let AI do the work:

> Alice give Bob 5 dollars. Bob give Fred 10 dollar. Fred buy a house. Alice rent Fred's house. Alice pay Fred 500 dollar....

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

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Post by softwaredoug »

softwaredoug wrote: post #52

Just ChatGPT itself. It’s my therapist, stackoverflow, Wikipedia, and many other things. Best $20/month I’ve ever spent. I’m skeptical of most prompt-based tools. I’d rather just get to the source and tweak ChatGPT to talk about exactly what I want.

I see chat very similarly to how I see spreadsheets - a computing paradigm for non programmers.

As such they provide a very specific abstraction for broad range of tasks. The moat for most prompt based tools is very small. These tools are similar to the moat of a spreadsheet template.

At the end of the day whether it’s a spreadsheet to track my mortgage or a tailored prompt, I typically want to fine tune it for just me.

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

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Post by ilaksh »

anotherpaulg wrote: post #55

I've been experimenting with using ChatGPT for coding and building up some useful tooling. The result is aider, which is a command-line tool that allows you to code with GPT-4 in the terminal. Ask GPT for features, improvements, or bug fixes and aider will directly apply the suggested changes to your source files. Each change is automatically committed to git with a descriptive commit message. https://paul-gauthier.g…

Nice solution with the search and replace blocks to edit code. I spent quite awhile trying to get regular patch files for stuff to work consistently.

Then I switched to having it use sed which was better but still not totally consistent.

Can you add a license?

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

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Post by jarek83 »

sgt wrote: post #115
throwuwu wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

3.5 vs 4 is like day and night. Try to get you impressions on v4

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

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Post by rkangel »

camjw wrote: post #94
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?

This is a spoof, referencing Criminal Minds.

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

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Post by lispenjoyer9000 »

unsupp0rted wrote: post #31

Not sure if it's GPT-powered, but I now get all my news from http://newsminimalist.com It's so calm and to the point, I'm never going back to anything else.

Spronket accomplishes the same thing, but the ranking is way better

https://www.spronket.com/sharedConfig?shared-config=23924690

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

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Post by rkangel »

unsupp0rted wrote: post #31

Not sure if it's GPT-powered, but I now get all my news from http://newsminimalist.com It's so calm and to the point, I'm never going back to anything else.

There's also https://www.boringreport.org/app which removes sensationalism from headlines.

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

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Post by egonschiele »

throwaway2203 wrote: post #141
egonschiele wrote: post #130

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This look really cool. What format does it store files in?

Just a JSON blob in firebase. I am looking into making an electron app, so the data stays local:

https://github.com/egonSchiele/chisel/tree/adit/electron

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