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Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?

#41
post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

....So that's how Google fell... their enemies that stood before them

With the power of its Gemini - Google was able to inject product ranking placement tokens into any prompt sent through its tentacles to the deep blue datacenter where, beneath the North Sea sits a kraken of subliminal advertising.

The new concept is to put secret subliminal ads in the responses AI makes across the board in order to secretly drive sentiment while the users believe they are educating themselves, they are secretly indoctrinating themselves to be the clickslaves Google sees them to be.

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I just installed this last night on my laptop:

https://github.com/lllyasviel/Fooocus

Highly recommend:

>"Looking up from the deck of golden gate bridge at the towers and metal work, the towers rise and arch back in an ominous and foreboding manner. more artistic, like an alphonse mucha propaganda poster - slightly fish-eye feeling" -- https://i.imgur.com/vyNg79f.jpg

the local UI and 1.27.0.0.1 - https://i.imgur.com/wRwghuN.jpg

Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?

#42
post #34

Whenever I have to write boilerplate code in a language or library I don't know well. For example, "Give me a quick Python script that opens a window with PyQt5", or "Split a string on spaces in Emacs Lisp". It's pretty much flawless for basic stuff like that.

This. Also writing boilerplate in a language I _do_ known.

Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?

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post #34

Whenever I have to write boilerplate code in a language or library I don't know well. For example, "Give me a quick Python script that opens a window with PyQt5", or "Split a string on spaces in Emacs Lisp". It's pretty much flawless for basic stuff like that.

heh - my final question in a months long panel interview for a position at google ~2007

Interviewer: "Quick, how to do a global search and replace in VI!"

ME, blanking: "...I'd.... google it..."

Interviewer: "best answer!"

(wound up not getting job for not having a degree, and Sergey was still personally signing off on all hires, according to them... (after they told me they were sending me an offer in the morning))

Just having a memory for a sec - some other notable interview moments:

Google: "What kind of company do you think Google is? (2007)

Me: "People think you're a search engine, but youre really just an advertising company."

And at twitter: "What kind of company do you think twitter is?" (~2011?)

Me: "I think you are a global sentiment engine"

(Didn't get the job allegedly because "I didnt read enough industry news" (seriously made what I read a big deal in the interview - and I fumbled trying to think of all the various things I read - this interview seemed to be looking for what physical publications I read, like DataCenter rags and such (I was a pretty successful datacenter design-team consultant at them time))

Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?

#45
Outside of the the usual programming stuff that’s posted:

* cooking questions, like clarifying steps in recipes, asking for simple recipes

* conversation starters for long car rides

* games/activities for date night, family gatherings, kids

In most of these, it can occasionally be “wrong” (save maybe cooking, but I can use “common sense” to validate) and that’s perfectly acceptable.

Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?

#46
post #5

besides coding, data analysis and creating my presentations an awkward chrismas card generator https://chat.openai.com/g/g-yzSEhwyJM-awkward-sweet-christma... Christmas Dev Support https://chat.openai.com/g/g-4AoVA5xhf-christmas-free-dev-sup... My Personal Doctor https://chat.openai.com/g/g-2v2gNkuad-doctair-free-medical-a... My Yoga Buddy https://chat.openai.com/g/g-SpeE49i2D-swami-vivekananda-gpt

Love the Christmas card generator! That was awesome.

Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?

#48
post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Why would anyone use a LLM with ads injected when there are alternatives?

Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?

#50
I took the list my wife gave me of her Christmas present requests and asked it to extrapolate other ideas. It did so quite successfully.

I used it to generate a balanced list of who gets to open which advent calendar because we have five kids and stupidly bought five advent calendars. It worked really well until the littles started stealing candy. I use to it check the tone of messages to my ex wife to ensure I’m not being too aggressive or combative. I use it to help generate basic letters to people I don’t really care about but want it to be formalish. Ie the landlord of my exwife who threw out a bunch of the kids stuff when asking permission to get it from the trash after exwife had been evicted. I’ve used it to help come up with silly ideas for kids story time at night. I use it almost everyday at work to check my code, emails, and any bullets I have to write about coworkers or myself.

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