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

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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…

Perhaps that is because you haven't used my top ten prompts for software devs who are worried about losing their jobs! But also yes, it is not the greatest thing ever. It is mostly mediocre for me as well. And lots of the most exciting things, like DMing a dungeons and dragons campaign, is actually mostly terrible because it recreates the same scenarios over and over and it never remembers any of the information that…

Please share your top 10, or for that matter top 20 prompts of ChatGPT.

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

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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…

Perhaps that is because you haven't used my top ten prompts for software devs who are worried about losing their jobs! But also yes, it is not the greatest thing ever. It is mostly mediocre for me as well. And lots of the most exciting things, like DMing a dungeons and dragons campaign, is actually mostly terrible because it recreates the same scenarios over and over and it never remembers any of the information that…

I don't want to come off as self-promoting, but the DnD DM problem is exactly what we're working on solving. If you build the infrastructure around the ruleset and leverage the AI for the story telling then it becomes much better than the vanilla ChatGPT experience, i.e it can reference your character sheet, ask you to roll for skill checks, do combat, etc.

It's far from perfect but we're continually working on improving it and you can check it out here if you're interested: https://www.fables.gg/

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

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There are so many useful tools, that I keep an Awesome list up to date with openAI API, as well as open LLM tools. Especially the up to date list of open LLM models might be of interest to some, in case someone wants to be independent of OpenAI: https://github.com/underlines/awesome-marketing-datascience/...

I don't like those lists... too much things. No idea what is actually usable / usefull in there.

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

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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.

Careful with the therapist part.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/430098/belgian-man-commits-sui...

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

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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…

This is awesome. I started messing around with it yesterday. I'm building a similar tool that interacts via Github issues and PRs, but being able to interact directly on the CLI is super cool. Some ideas (I may experiment with these on my own fork, and make a PR if I have success): 1. The main prompt is pretty long ( https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/blob/main/aider/promp... ), but I suspect that it could be abb…

Sorry, just noticed this reply.

I have explored the "line ranges" concept you describe a fair amount. I took another run at it again last week. I still haven't unlocked a formulation that GPT-4 can reliably work with.

It's really hard to get GPT-4 to stop trying to edit parts of the files that we haven't shown it yet. It frequently hallucinates what's in the missing sections and then happily starts editing it.

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