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Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?
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Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?
#12There are a lot of use-cases that aren't possible at current pricing and model access.
For instance, we're working on a number of text classification features, but the inability to fine-tune makes it very difficult and expensive.
Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?
#13It can explain stuff to you in exactly the way you need to, and walk you through problems. You can ask it to create quizzes / guided questions for you which helps in organizing your own thoughts. Another application I find quite remarkable is asking it for good prompts for image generation models. The biggest benefit is that you're not starting from zero when entering a new problem space / domain.
But how do you assert the information is correct? It could be dangerous to blindly trust an imperfect tool as a teacher.
I am not even in an environment where ChatGPT is very present and yet I've seen that happening sitting right next to a person with exactly that thing happening.
Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?
#14I've got a thread going with ChatGPT about an app I'm building. It knows all of the libraries I'm using, and has seen the main App component, the Router and many of the key components. I'm asking it about every task I need to do, feature I need to implement, bug I need to fix. Basically rubber ducking with it and talking through everything I'm doing as if it were my coworker. It's reducing my time to solve problems b…
So I have yet to use ChatGPT (I know, I know), but are you able to keep long running threads with it? How does it know context about your app? Are you simply copying and pasting code? This is really cool to hear about.
Yep, the threads are permanent. I've got approximately 200 separate threads going with it right now.
I gave it a summary when I started using it: "I am building an app using Expo, React Native, React Navigation, React Query, Nativebase, Google Maps and lodash. Expo exports the app for web, iOS and Android. The purpose of the app is to view data related to on a map. The data comes from an internal API."
Then I started copying and pasting code or asking questions about using the libraries I had mentioned.
Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?
#15I asked it to help explain the Birthday Paradox to a colleague who was struggling to understand the math behind it.
I gave it the requirements and just copied and pasted.
Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?
#16Two things I find remarkable:
1) I’m ~50% faster at coding
2) Jailbreaks. It’s exposing in a reproducible way how people are persuaded / tricked into bending or breaking rules via persistence, role play, and confident instruction. Presumably from a corpus of text where these techniques have worked in real life.
Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?
#17It can explain stuff to you in exactly the way you need to, and walk you through problems. You can ask it to create quizzes / guided questions for you which helps in organizing your own thoughts. Another application I find quite remarkable is asking it for good prompts for image generation models. The biggest benefit is that you're not starting from zero when entering a new problem space / domain.
But how do you assert the information is correct? It could be dangerous to blindly trust an imperfect tool as a teacher.
On the other hand, that exact line of thinking could be applied when taking about pair programming or getting advice from a more senior peer. In either case the answer is to critically think about the answers and seek confirmation elsewhere when needed.
Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?
#18Call center employees are pretty much as good as gone once the price comes down on GPT4. You can pretty easily give it a good prompt that allows it to answer very specific questions about your company, or interact with external APIs to schedule services, make changes based on the customer's requests, etc. Throw some Speech to Text and Text to Speech services in front and behind it, and voila you have an AI receptionist that blows literally every automated answering service out of the water today. IMO, 90% of call center employees will be out of work in the next 10 years.
Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?
#19Give it access to a Python repl, show it how to send HTTP requests, how to take look at images of webpages if it needs to, and how to spawn new instances of itself - give it a budget and tell it to make money for you.
Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?
#20I've got a thread going with ChatGPT about an app I'm building. It knows all of the libraries I'm using, and has seen the main App component, the Router and many of the key components. I'm asking it about every task I need to do, feature I need to implement, bug I need to fix. Basically rubber ducking with it and talking through everything I'm doing as if it were my coworker. It's reducing my time to solve problems b…
Can you describe the structure of your conversation? Did you describe what libraries you were using and send the full code of the main app component?
I started with a pretty simple prompt: "I am building an app using Expo, React Native, React Navigation, React Query, Nativebase, Google Maps and lodash. Expo exports the app for web, iOS and Android. The purpose of the app is to view data related to on a map. The data comes from an internal API."
And then just started asking it questions about each task I was trying to complete. Often I say, "Here is my code in MyComponent.jsx: I want to implement . How can I do that?" and GPT will usually respond with tutorial-like steps to take, or sometimes just with the code for a function it thinks I should implement. I read what it suggests, paste it, modify it if necessary, try it out, adjust and repeat.