Being able to talk to the model has been awesome for my conversational Spanish. I’m holding conversations and getting live corrections on my grammar.
Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?
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Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 .
This was a favorite of mine some months ago but it has been surpassed by other Mistral finetunes.
To me the best one right now is neuralhermes 2.5, check out how I was able to teach it basic function calling in the system prompt: https://huggingface.co/mlabonne/NeuralHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B/...
Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?
#53I made a custom GPT and uploaded my books to it, and now use it for: * A story bible (asking questions about characters, timelines, plot points, etc that I might have forgotten) * A brainstorming tool that uses existing themes and characters for new ideas * A rudimentary developmental editor or critic (does not replace my human dev editor, however) * A character and environment art generator (this one is hit and miss…
Do you have any links on how to make your own? Interested in the same use case.
I'll write up a quick post on my blog for this with screenshots, but I hope the following can get you started:
So assuming you want the super low barrier to entry ChatGPT way, you'll need GPT Plus ($10/month). From there, you will go to this page: https://chat.openai.com/gpts/mine
This will list your custom GPTs. You will click on "Create a GPT". The GPT Editor will ask you for some information about your GPT. Keep in mind that GPT Plus comes with an hourly rate limit, and the creation conversation itself uses your GPT 4.0 quota... So you can _also_ just go to the "Configure" tab on that creation page and put in your prompts directly (this does not use your GPT 4.0 quota). Here's mine, for example:
"Description: A sci-fi romance writing assistant."
"Instructions: 'Assistant-Name' is a specialized writing assistant and professional developmental editor for the 'Series-Name' series, focusing on elements like steamy romance, dark themes, space exploration, power plays, sensuality, futuristic technologies, and aliens. This GPT will provide insights and suggestions aligned with these themes, ensuring that discussions and brainstorming sessions enhance the unique character of the series. It will avoid veering into unrelated genres or themes. The assistant is designed to recall specific details from the series, assist in developing plotlines and characters, and provide creative ideas that align with the established universe of 'Series-Name.' It will adopt a tone that resonates with the series' themes, being insightful, a bit edgy, and deeply engaged with the elements of dark sci-fi romance."
On that same "Configuration" tab, you can upload your knowledge base. In my case, that is each book in the series in .docx or PDF format. Tick the box that says "DALL-E Image Generation" and optionally "Web browsing" if desired.
Under the "Additional Settings" (hidden by default) config options, I unticked the "Use conversation data in your GPT to improve our models" checkbox. Just personal preference.
You can try out the assistant before saving.
Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?
#54I built a GPT[1] and fed it tons of information about Go[2], and use that to help me code and, most of all, write tests. Been a huge help and increased my productivity in a significant way.
I also built a couple of tools using the API, allalt[3] being the most important, which I use to generate alt tags for images. I suck big time at describing images, so GPT-4V helps a ton. I'll probably extend it to use ollama[4] soon, so I can use uncensored models to describe NSFW images as well[5].
Speaking of notes, I also built brane[6], which is a command-line notes application I use to log what I do throughout the day. It integrates with GPT's API, so you can ask questions about your day or week; quite nice for reminding me of what I did that week, helps me a lot in therapy sessions.
Overall, GPT and ChatGPT improved my life quite a bit. Really happy with it and looking forward to a GPT-5 kind of thing and local models that can rival GPT-4.
[1] https://chat.openai.com/g/g-PAHVE3a64-moss-the-go-expert
[2] https://git.sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/moss
[3] https://git.sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/allalt
[5] I do nude art photography on the side.
Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 .
This was a favorite of mine some months ago but it has been surpassed by other Mistral finetunes. To me the best one right now is neuralhermes 2.5, check out how I was able to teach it basic function calling in the system prompt: https://huggingface.co/mlabonne/NeuralHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B/...
Each model varies and it's highly dependent on the use case. It's best to try a few to see what works best. Definitely isn't a universal answer.
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#56I 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?
"I would like to roast a leg of lamb. Kindly provide instructions"
You'll need:
> A 2kg leg of lamb from Bob & Mary's Finest Cuts [Maps Link]
> A bottle of Yarden Merlot [Buy Online] or [Maps link]
> Four organic red onions from [Maps link]
> ...
> [Click here] to order all the ingredients and have them by 6pm, after checkout I'll provide the cooking instructions.
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Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?
#571) Helped me write a very quick and dirty python program to figure out all the possible combinations of 'little letters after a name' (phd, mba, ms, md, esq, etc) that make up a real word in English. Turns out, there's this whole fuzzy matching library in python that does most of the hard work for you. (Warning, this dumb idea is a big nerd snipe, spend your Xmas vacations on something fun)
2) Writing a novel. Newer (as in last month), versions of Claude and the like will now take in whole documents. For work, these are used to help generate better boilerplate. So, I can just upload a style guide and then an old manual to make a new manual to better conform to the style guides we've updated (>99% accuracy, really good actually!).
So, now I can just upload a working draft of a novel/movie script, the character dossiers, the overall plot (quite detailed scene by scene format though). It reads them all, and then spits out the next scene I ask it to. About an hour of polishing the results with the AI, and you have a whole act completed. I'm still going finding all the little tricks, but it's taken the work load down by at least 50x. You can get a B- level novel/script out in under two weeks, ready to send to out for review.
Idea for HNers out there: Take this new version that can read uploaded documents and sell it as a writing aide for all us needy-twitchy-worrywort-small-bit writers out there. Put some auto-incorporation into AO3 publishing too. At the very least, these things get rid of writer's block like nothing I've ever seen!
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#58So many things...
- Write complex SQL queries
- Write Python GUI apps
- Write songs, heikus, and Christmas rhymes
- Write Delphi Object Pascal functions
- Write PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS code
- Create SVG files and ASCII art
- Find bugs in PHP code, Kotlin code, and HTML syntax
- Create HTML/CSS layouts
- Write SEO outlines and blog posts
- Write synopsis of a potential fictional novel
- Write titles for user content in an AI mobile app
- Create UI layouts for Delphi Object Pascal
- Create strategic marketing plans for clients
- Create recipies for a list of ingredients
- Write bash scripts, PHP CLI commands, WinSCP CLI commands
- Write haproxy and Dockerfile configs
- Orchestrated a 70 server CPU/GPU cloud in programming languages I don't know
- Write Python Stable Diffusion image model pipeline code with Diffusers and PyTorch
- Researching romance novel tropes, driveway maintenence, eminent domain, Waldorf, treasury bonds
- Writing professional sounding emails
- Text summarization and analysis
- Stock and real estate data summarization and analysis
- Psuedo scaling algorithms
- Marketing copy
- Code conversion between languages (like C# to Delphi)
- Cost comparisons between signing a Cloudflare enterprise contract and not over 12 months
- Naming a novel brainstorming
and many many other things. A huge productivity multiplier. It's like having 1000 domain experts and junior devs on tap 24/7 that you don't have to hire off Upwork. Also have to be able to recognize when it produces trash.
Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?
#59Coding, debugging, random questions I would have searched on Google.
Re: Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?
#60A few use cases... -I use it to clean up emails for work (paste in email, ask it to formalize it or make it more clear) -My wife used it yesterday to create a rhyming scavenger hunt for the kids -create Chrome extensions (tip, make sure it uses manifest version 3) -I use it to create themed Teams video backgrounds -Used it to create survey questions for Work From Home feedback for my staff. Lots of other random uses…
Care to elaborate on the extensions? I just started building an extension this past week and have been heavily relying on ChatGPT for help getting going. Just curious on your idea. My first extension is effectively a real time cheater for Wordle in the browser. I will have it published by the end of the month and fingers crossed I can make this cross platform as well as iOS app. If nothing else, I just want to learn…
I'd say it's incredibly easy to build a basic extension, and if you know a little programming (at least to know what to say to ChatGPT) then you can get more complicated with your extensions.
I mostly get my results by simply conversing with it like I would a person. Tell it what you are seeing and what is wrong (ex "The font displayed on the screen should be larger and centered on the screen."). You can also ask it to start logging errors to the console, then simply copy and pasting the error and ask GPT what is wrong and how to improve it. Another tip is to provide some custom instructions in your profile and ask it to always provide the full code when updating particular sections. Without this, it will just give you the small snippet you need to update and you have to figure out where that goes. Probably not a bad idea to tell it to always use manifest V3 when creating extensions (there are some structural changes which would brick your extension when the migration occurs in June 2024. When you are done, you can also ask it for instructions on publishing your extension in addition to creating your icon set with Dall-e for example. If you want to charge for your extension, I think there is a tool called ExtensionPay which provides an API. ChatGPT might be able to incorporate that code (I haven't tried that yet though).
My email is in my profile if you want to chat more.