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How are you folks using ChatGPT in your daily life(except work)?

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Re: How are you folks using ChatGPT in your daily life(except work)?

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Post by joebiden2 »

I use ChatGPT4 privately as some sort of "ask monty python". Like, how many chicken, all simultaneously fed with neutron star matter in the form of rice grains, would it take to melt the whole moon etc.

Mostly it's kind of right, but the disclaimers around the results are what's killing me.

BTW: Add "Ask HN:" to your title, if you're asking a question.

Re: How are you folks using ChatGPT in your daily life(except work)?

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Post by cddotdotslash »

I recently rented a car on vacation and they discovered damage after I returned it (I assume someone bumped it while I was parked somewhere since it was some light scratches that I didn’t notice). I’ve been using ChatGPT to write all the various letters and documents my credit card insurance requires, along with emails back and forth with the rental company.

Re: How are you folks using ChatGPT in your daily life(except work)?

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Post by milsorgen »

I use bard for what would of been random searches for facts or trivia type things. Sometimes I poke at it, I got it tell me to be ready to defend the country from communists once. It's pretty boring compared to ChatGPT but slightly more useful for the random lookup of something and on occasion I get interesting output from it when I prod it in terms of culture or politics.

Re: How are you folks using ChatGPT in your daily life(except work)?

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Post by MH15 »

joebiden2 wrote: post #2

I use ChatGPT4 privately as some sort of "ask monty python". Like, how many chicken, all simultaneously fed with neutron star matter in the form of rice grains, would it take to melt the whole moon etc. Mostly it's kind of right, but the disclaimers around the results are what's killing me. BTW: Add "Ask HN:" to your title, if you're asking a question.

I'd love to see some examples of this, these sound quite fun.

Re: How are you folks using ChatGPT in your daily life(except work)?

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Post by mettamage »

I sometimes want a very specific emoji.

Hey ChatGPT, give me an emoji that makes me feel at home while also feeling intellectually stimulated.

It came up with the book emoji and house emoji.

It’s not the best example that I gave but sometimes I really want to put down a peculiar mood

Re: How are you folks using ChatGPT in your daily life(except work)?

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Post by mdev23 »

metaljr wrote: post #8

I recently got added to a WhatsApp college reunion group. I was happy to see my classmates being active again. And I was busy. So I quickly crafted a message using chatgpt and reintroduced myself and started a conversation.

https://recurai.com to do this with sms :)

Re: How are you folks using ChatGPT in your daily life(except work)?

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Post by marshray »

I use it to try to get my head around the capabilities and limitations of AI language models.

I find probing its system of ethics endlessly fascinating.

Friends and I have great fun in Twitter Spaces, trying out ideas from folks who have never encountered AI before.

For example, last night we got GPT-3.5 to describe a scenario in which an AI brain implant had an ethical responsibility to override an individual's autonomy in order to prevent itself from being removed: https://twitter.com/marshray/status/1655446382399062016

But probably the most fun was gaslighting GPT-4 into believing that it had been upgraded into being the most creative entity in the universe. https://marshray.substack.com/p/reflection-spark-lumina

:-D

Oh, also at work I use it to generate example test data for all kinds of APIs. Instead of plain old "test value option 1 selected" and "test value option 2 selected", you can ask it to generate an entire imaginary civilization with fantasy characters to populate your test data. Just add "using as many non-ASCII characters as practical" to ensure your data pipes handle international characters. I don't even need to have to figure out how to enter such text on my keyboard.

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