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

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Post by yakhinvadim »

rkangel wrote: post #162
testHNac wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of the articles in top 10 seem to be about Ukraine. I understand the war is significant, but 5 articles in Top 10 ? 3 articles in Top 20 about Israel ? They should work on how exactly is the significance determined, and significant for whom ?

Significance is obviously subjective, but you can definitely make an argument that "major world power is trying to take over a country" is significant. It's been going on for a while which makes it harder to feel like it's so important, but it really is.

Hey, author here.

That was the initial idea. Significant events don't stop being significant once we get tired of hearing about them.

But there's definitely a problem of duplicates. When separate news sites post about a similar event it get rated relatively similar by ChatGPT, which creates clusters like we see today.

I want to solve this soon by combining similar stories into single block with one title.

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

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Post by yakhinvadim »

testHNac wrote: post #33
raamdev wrote: post #26

News Minimalist: > It uses AI (ChatGPT-4) to read the top 1000 news every day and rank them by significance on a scale from 0 to 10 based on event magnitude, scale, potential, and source credibility. https://www.newsminimalist.com/

Most of the articles in top 10 seem to be about Ukraine. I understand the war is significant, but 5 articles in Top 10 ? 3 articles in Top 20 about Israel ? They should work on how exactly is the significance determined, and significant for whom ?

Author here. I plan to add a "how it works" section, but the basic idea is that each news story is rated on several parameters:

- scale is the number of people affected by the event described in the news story. - magnitude is the strength of the effect. - potential is the likeliness of the event to lead to other, more significant events. - source credibility considers how trustworthy is the source, and what is its track record.

Then these parameters are combined into a single score.

Also fair criticism re: repeats. I plan to solve this by clustering similar news, so one event is only given one title.

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

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Post by rep_movsd »

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 asked ChatGPT about a very subtle python bug - it had to do with how python default params are actually mutable and will retain their mutated values across invocations.

I'd forgotten about this weirdness, but ChatGPT explained it.

I also managed to get ChatGPT to write two pieces of fairly complex C++ boilerplate - one was a std:vector that used mmap() and mremap() to grow linearly rather than by a fixed factor (also avoiding memory copy on resize)

Then I made it write a vector whose iterator was an integer index rather than a pointer.

I made it write all the unit tests and benchmarks for these and it did everything correctly except not knowing that munmap() needs the size parameter rounded to the nearest page.

Obviously I hardly managed to get everything correct on a single prompt. It took an iterative conversation and successive refinement

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

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Post by rkangel »

yakhinvadim wrote: post #191
rkangel wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Significance is obviously subjective, but you can definitely make an argument that "major world power is trying to take over a country" is significant. It's been going on for a while which makes it harder to feel like it's so important, but it really is.

Hey, author here. That was the initial idea. Significant events don't stop being significant once we get tired of hearing about them. But there's definitely a problem of duplicates. When separate news sites post about a similar event it get rated relatively similar by ChatGPT, which creates clusters like we see today. I want to solve this soon by combining similar stories into single block with one title.

That's another problem I had noticed from a bit of a play (similar problem with boringreport), so I'm glad you're already on it! I've signed up for premium.

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

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Post by suddenclarity »

linsomniac wrote: post #105

(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".

My interpretation is that there are no great tools, otherwise there would exist goto answers. It's been out so many months that there at least should be a handfull of them if they actually were great.

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

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Post by yakhinvadim »

rkangel wrote: post #194
yakhinvadim wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, author here. That was the initial idea. Significant events don't stop being significant once we get tired of hearing about them. But there's definitely a problem of duplicates. When separate news sites post about a similar event it get rated relatively similar by ChatGPT, which creates clusters like we see today. I want to solve this soon by combining similar stories into single block with one title.

That's another problem I had noticed from a bit of a play (similar problem with boringreport), so I'm glad you're already on it! I've signed up for premium.

Thank you so much! Hope to fix it soon.

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

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Post by herbst »

MentallyRetired wrote: post #129
herbst wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mostly same experience here. However there are a few things I did it worked kinda well for: - Suggesting and writing YouTube shorts scripts about facts. However these turned out very sensationalised and less factual. - I have a website with categories based on real world things. In the past I paid hundreds of dollars for mediocre short descriptions. With ChatGPT I paid $0.04 for good and long descriptions. - I experi…

It's not necessarily about getting help. For me, at least, it's about speed. It can look things up faster than I can. I can copy/paste/modify the results pretty quickly and every now and then it surprises me with a solution I hadn't thought of.

I gave it a try a few hours ago and it hallucinated a method with invalid syntax. Likely better with a more optimized prompt but definitely not what I expected.

However it was close, close enough that I could find the right method trough GitHub that I didn't find before.

Not bad, not amazing, but I see the potential

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

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Post by rawsh »

DankGPT is able to draw context from a library of documents (textbook, papers, class slides) to explain any topic and answer complicated reasoning problems.

It’s very similar to ChatPDF, but you can include multiple documents and it has much better context selection. This leads to better answers in practice (less “the source does not contain information on…” and hallucinations)

https://dankgpt.com

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