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

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Post by muzani »

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 still use the "vanilla" stuff.

GPT-4 has been superior to Phind in my experience, especially on technical questions. And the web browsing beta closes all the holes remaining. Downside is speed, but it's a fire and forget thing.

I tried AutoGPT and the like, but found the self-iteration not very helpful when tackling real world problems. GPT-4 gives enough step-by-step instructions to do anything I need it to do, without it being wired into my file system.

Prompt engineering seems to be a thing of the past with GPT-4 too, though you still need to give context, which "prompt engineering tools" don't help with.

Plugins are also pretty powerful. It seems to hallucinate a lot with Zapier, but it's still the best tool by far.

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

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Post by wastewastewaste »

yawnxyz wrote: post #72

I use Phind.com + co-pilot + GPT-4 to write code daily. I just tried using Bard for summarizing my blog post as it has a larger context window than GPT-4 and it worked really well, so I'm adding that to my workflow. Separately I like combining serper.dev and Scrapingbee with GPT-4 / langchain to summarizing scientific articles and news for me on top of my (ugly non-sharable) AI scripts, but they're basic

I don't get phind. isn't it the same as just chatgpt extension to google?

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

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Post by oriettaxx »

lazylion2 wrote: post #196
oriettaxx wrote: post #186

I am on https://www.phind.com the whole day: it's everything I need but I know nothing about who made it, can any of you help?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34884338 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35543668

thanks

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

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Post by softwaredoug »

muzani wrote: post #231
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 still use the "vanilla" stuff. GPT-4 has been superior to Phind in my experience, especially on technical questions. And the web browsing beta closes all the holes remaining. Downside is speed, but it's a fire and forget thing. I tried AutoGPT and the like, but found the self-iteration not very helpful when tackling real world problems. GPT-4 gives enough step-by-step instructions to do anything I need it to do, wi…

Agree on AutoGPT. It’s more useful for me to share what happened and ask follow up questions. Also sometimes it simply is bad at something, and putting it in an AutoGPT loop just makes things more confusing :). At that point I just use google.

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

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Post by rliy001 »

I have been using it as a code companion getting it to do some dirty work that I would have had to ask Google and wade through results and find a "similar example to what I'm trying to achieve, then having to apply it to my situation.

Instead I can describe my precise situation to ChatGTP and get something that is almost 95% ready to plug in straight to my code.

I will give an example.

I work on asp.net, heavy sql backend application. Sometimes while I am working on a big task, I skip a few things as I develop and hone in on my ultimate solution. Then I go back and tidy things up. I would sometimes mock data that I would have had to write onto real sql tables into temporary tables and at the end, I would go and turn those temp tables into real tables. ChatGPT has been very good at say turning those temporary (staging) work into real work

e.g. Hey ChatGTP, here's my settings table which I have defined as a temporary table, can you write me a script that turns this into the real table, and another script for the data import script

e.g. Hey chatGTP, I need to output this xml from this sql, can you have a go at turning this into something like this, here's the table schema I'm working with

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

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Post by themoonisachees »

rliy001 wrote: post #237

I have been using it as a code companion getting it to do some dirty work that I would have had to ask Google and wade through results and find a "similar example to what I'm trying to achieve, then having to apply it to my situation. Instead I can describe my precise situation to ChatGTP and get something that is almost 95% ready to plug in straight to my code. I will give an example. I work on asp.net, heavy sql ba…

My use case as well. Job requires us to be very careful about what info we give it so most of the time is spent crafting plausible but anonymized example inputs though.

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

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Post by MattPalmer1086 »

jarek83 wrote: post #156
sgt wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using 3.5

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

I must have a play with GPT4 at some point. For me, 3.5 generates working code more often than not and rarely hallucinates.
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