Robot vacuum is the most useful for sure.
Nice! I haven’t tried one yet, but you’re making me curious, might be time to test if AI can finally tackle real-world dust :)
Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?
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#82NotebookLLM. Load in technical manuals and datasheets, then ask it questions and check the parts it references instead of searching tens of thousands of pages across dozens of diferrent documents. It's the most useful AI tool I've tried so far for embedded work.
Isn't Claude (i.e. general LLM) enough? I seem to have luck having it interpret datasheet PDFs for me.
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#83Travelling 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.
>Explain the difference between Turkish yoghurt dishes haydari and cacik wow something that you can find literally in the second sentence of the wikipedia article for haydari.
> literally in the second sentence of the wikipedia article for haydarI and cacim
It's impressive that you know where things are and how long it take to find the infomation even BEFORE hitting search, trully.
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#84NotebookLM to explore sources in bulk, prepare vacations etc
Claude Code for coding and as basis for my AI assistant/ghostwriter (productivity, planning, prioritization, writing articles, newsletters, social media posts, etc
Gemini & Sora for images, also replicate and Flux (much less now)
Veo 3 for video (tests)
code2prompt to create AI Mega prompts out of my notes
LM Studio and ollama for local LLMs
Dockmaster for installing/running MCP servers. Hopefully soon Desktop Extensions
Various Obsidian extensions for AI
Oh and tons more stuff
Re: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?
#85i find grok far superior to chatgpt and copilot, but none of them worth more than $10/m. I am about to switch to agents and pro subscription level because I've heard good feedback about those. AI is perfect at small and easy tasks
are you paying for any of them or only using the free versions? and which models specifically are you using?
my contractors provide me paid versions and it's my choice which one to use. Most of the time I use them as a sanity check and autocomplete. Anytime I get to anything complex like writing rust - every AI is useless to different levels
PS. Maybe I am a bad example, since I don't even track with model was where. I tick different boxes and see which one works better. In general, not a good experience