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Re: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

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Post by walthamstow »

suddenlybananas wrote: post #64
walthamstow wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the other, vastly more complex, stuff? Btw, it's the third sentence.

Haydari is a type of yogurt dish similar to a thick cacık, made from certain herbs and spices, combined with garlic and yogurt.[1] It differs from cacık in that the recipe contains no cucumber and calls for strained yogurt or labne.[2] it is in the second sentence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haydari

The third sentence is where it tells me how they taste different and what they are ordered for (meze vs accompaniment) which is what I wanted.

My answer from ChatGPT was much better, and I didn't have to gamble on it being in the Wikipedia article, or which one to search for (cacik has nothing).

So, anyway, about that other complex stuff?

Re: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

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Post by therobot24 »

m3h wrote: post #22

Perplexity - for search (Google replacement), summarization and rewriting, basic research and making presentations (using Perplexity apps) Granola - transcription and meeting notes, searching across notes, recalling action items I've played around extensively with ChatGPT, but Perplexity now covers my use cases. I'm looking to test Claude, primarily because Perplexity does not currently support MCP servers, and I nee…

Have you tried google deep research? i'm curious how well perplexity compares to it.

I've been using Gemini Deep Research to replace my Google search since it does a web search and provides links you can check yourself to any citation that the resulting report uses.

Re: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

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Post by suddenlybananas »

walthamstow wrote: post #71
suddenlybananas wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haydari is a type of yogurt dish similar to a thick cacık, made from certain herbs and spices, combined with garlic and yogurt.[1] It differs from cacık in that the recipe contains no cucumber and calls for strained yogurt or labne.[2] it is in the second sentence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haydari

The third sentence is where it tells me how they taste different and what they are ordered for (meze vs accompaniment) which is what I wanted. My answer from ChatGPT was much better, and I didn't have to gamble on it being in the Wikipedia article, or which one to search for (cacik has nothing). So, anyway, about that other complex stuff?

I just think you're impressed by stuff which was already available and portraying it as stuff that is through chatgpt. Like a Tagalog phrasebook? That's been around a long long time.

Re: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

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Post by walthamstow »

suddenlybananas wrote: post #73
walthamstow wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The third sentence is where it tells me how they taste different and what they are ordered for (meze vs accompaniment) which is what I wanted. My answer from ChatGPT was much better, and I didn't have to gamble on it being in the Wikipedia article, or which one to search for (cacik has nothing). So, anyway, about that other complex stuff?

I just think you're impressed by stuff which was already available and portraying it as stuff that is through chatgpt. Like a Tagalog phrasebook? That's been around a long long time.

Everything in an LLM was already available, that's how they work.

Short of hiring a human, there has never been a phrasebook I can talk to out loud and it talk back. That's what I did that day in Manila, earbuds in, walking and talking, acting out scenarios like ordering food in Tagalog with the assistant.

Re: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

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Post by nunez »

hexomancer wrote: post #24

Something never thought I would say: google AI previews. They actually helped me a lot during Iran's internet shutdown last week. I wrote a blog post about it: https://ahrm.github.io/jekyll/update/2025/06/20/iran-interne... .

damn; this article triggered my dormant frustration over Google sunsetting Webcache. Unbelievably useful feature that went away kind-of suddenly for weak reasons.

Re: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

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Post by rajkumarsekar »

yogini wrote: post #2

1. ChatGPT I use it mostly to dump quick ideas and then expand them later by using it as my thinking partner. Also I use chatgpt for brainstorming ideas for marketing campaigns, writing copies etc. I have few custom GPTs created for my every use case 2. Claude I use Claude projects for writing articles and for SEO optimisation 3. Cursor I use Cursor for coding daily. Now quite used to the flow it creates and makes my…

How’s your experience been with Cursor compared to GitHub Copilot?

Re: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

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Post by rajkumarsekar »

rcarmo wrote: post #18

I have an actual rubber duck on my desk, which means I only use AÍ for stuff like “refactor and write tests for this stuff Ducky and I designed”. But I think your question is fundamentally flawed—-we all use AI in phone and editor autocomplete, searching, summarization and whatnot on a daily basis now in office tools. It is using it for actual useful output that counts, and for that it is still below what I deem acce…

Fair point. AI is everywhere now, even when we don’t notice. I was aiming more at tools people actively choose for real output. Love the rubber duck method, by the way!

Re: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

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Post by rajkumarsekar »

m3h wrote: post #22

Perplexity - for search (Google replacement), summarization and rewriting, basic research and making presentations (using Perplexity apps) Granola - transcription and meeting notes, searching across notes, recalling action items I've played around extensively with ChatGPT, but Perplexity now covers my use cases. I'm looking to test Claude, primarily because Perplexity does not currently support MCP servers, and I nee…

Granola sounds super handy for recall and meeting notes.

Re: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

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Post by rajkumarsekar »

walthamstow wrote: post #28

Travelling with ChatGPT is incredible. Translate this Japanese menu into romaji (latin character Japanese) and English. Explain the difference between Turkish yoghurt dishes haydari and cacik. Walking around Manila with voice mode talking me through some basic Tagalog phrases I might need.

That’s an awesome use case, feels like having a multilingual travel buddy in your pocket.
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