I've been regularly using ChatGPT for translating technical documents. It does a great job, definitely better than Google Translate.
Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?
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#22Don't use it.
I tried using it for coding but it made up APIs constantly or had subtle errors. I don't know what people mean when they say it works for them. I can see it help as an icebreaker though. It just helps me get in the mood sometimes.
Other factual stuff ex nutrition questions, health stuff, historic events etc it's quite useless.
I am an LLM skeptic. I think there're a lot of people who're claiming that they find it valuable just like crypto was claimed to be valuable
Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?
#23I am not using it, never have. I use open models.
Which are the best you've used?
This is my favorite model as of now - https://huggingface.co/Open-Orca/Mistral-7B-OpenOrca
It's not top on the Open LLM leaderboards but it's worked well for me. Haven't had a chance to look at Mixtral but this is the one I'd try first - https://huggingface.co/Open-Orca/Mixtral-SlimOrca-8x7B.
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#24I found it has replaced a large percentage of google searches for me - particularly programming related. I can literally put the same keywords in ChatGPT that I used to put into google, and I'll get answers from various programming language docs, with examples I can follow-up on, with no SEO spam / ads.
I wonder how long it will take for advertising to get injected into LLM replies?
Wow. That's actually a great idea. Although, I know you didn't intend it as such. Haha.
But, now that you mention it, that's pretty much the future.
It will be better at serving ads than Google ever was.
So that's how Google fell...
Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?
#25I sometimes use it when I'm lacking inspiration to craft polite LinkedIn or email response.
Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?
#26Generally I use it to try and waste as much of Open AI and Microsoft's money as I possibly can. I try and get it to use the absolute maximum number of tokens as I possibly can for free doing pointless tasks, I use the image generation to produce the weirdest art I can without triggering the censorship and when I'm bored I just tell it as many lies as possible and make it treat them as truth. I don't know if this is f…
Sounds like they're living rent-free in your life.
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#27No, I guess I'm a luddite that way.
But I may get into it from a SaaS perspective eg. get into the hype since there are customers.
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#28Pretty similar to how a lot of people in IT are using it:
- Generating boilerplate code for a process - saving time and then just customizing basic code after feeding it an idea and some basic requirements
- Troubleshooting - especially on systems I'm not familiar with - this often gets me 95% of the way to a solution. Obviously not just copying & pasting scripts it spits out, but it's been very good at figuring out some obscure linux issues, oracle config issues, even 3rd party integration software.
- Meal prepping - give it a list of ingredients and preferences and have it spit out a plan on how to portion it out, make each different meal roughly equal nutrition-wise, plan out when and how to cook each piece on a day to make it the most efficient, and even generate a shopping list. Output it into a nice table and the hardest part is done.
Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?
#29Generally I use it to try and waste as much of Open AI and Microsoft's money as I possibly can. I try and get it to use the absolute maximum number of tokens as I possibly can for free doing pointless tasks, I use the image generation to produce the weirdest art I can without triggering the censorship and when I'm bored I just tell it as many lies as possible and make it treat them as truth. I don't know if this is f…
Is this not acting in bad faith? What is driving you to do this, is it not better to simply let it be and focus on something else?
Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?
#30As a junior developer to sketch scripts or simple methods. If often knows things that I don't know, because it read all the manuals and all of SO. It stops to be useful after the second or third iteration on the code when it becomes apparent that it knows the syntax and the examples but it doesn't understand the purpose.