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Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?

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Post by Nathanwl »

Havana summarizes my sales calls and drafts a follow-up email automatically after each call.

https://tryhavana.com

When you do more than 5-10 sales calls a week, writing up notes and emails can take hours of your time.

It's tedious work but also must be done (otherwise you might forget what's going on in a deal when it's time to do another call down the line!).

Also, the quality of the summaries and emails must be good (clear, readable) but not necessarily great (we're not looking to win a Pulitzer here).

It's the perfect kind of task for GPT.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?

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Post by rkangel »

testHNac wrote: post #33
raamdev wrote: post #26

News Minimalist: > It uses AI (ChatGPT-4) to read the top 1000 news every day and rank them by significance on a scale from 0 to 10 based on event magnitude, scale, potential, and source credibility. https://www.newsminimalist.com/

Most of the articles in top 10 seem to be about Ukraine. I understand the war is significant, but 5 articles in Top 10 ? 3 articles in Top 20 about Israel ? They should work on how exactly is the significance determined, and significant for whom ?

Significance is obviously subjective, but you can definitely make an argument that "major world power is trying to take over a country" is significant. It's been going on for a while which makes it harder to feel like it's so important, but it really is.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?

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Post by rashkov »

huydotnet wrote: post #153

I built https://chatuml.com , a copilot for diagram, the main usecase is when you need to start a diagram but don't know where to start, you can just type out what you have in mind and let AI do the work: > Alice give Bob 5 dollars. Bob give Fred 10 dollar. Fred buy a house. Alice rent Fred's house. Alice pay Fred 500 dollar....

This is kind of delightful. I frequently want to build diagrams like this but I thought the only way was to draw them by hand which is very time consuming so I don't like to do it. This makes it a lot easier and I can learn some UML in the process. Thanks for building it.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?

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Post by breakpointalpha »

lonelos wrote: post #14

Phind is a GPT powered search engine optimized for developers / technical documentation. It searches the web and tries to aggregate results from multiple web sites. Although there are instances where it references outdated versions of libraries, on balance, it significantly reduced my time spent on technical research. https://www.phind.com/

I was instantly a big believer in Phind.

It has replaced 95% of my previous DuckDuckGo searches for development info.

I even used it with another developer to solve a mission critical bug based on some very vague symptoms. It's saved so much time, I'll never go back.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?

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Post by DropPanda »

elicksaur wrote: post #118
linsomniac wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One mistake I've seen people who are unhappy with GPT make is they ask it questions they already know the answer to, topics they are an expert in, and then tear down the response. Try asking it things you would google for. I'm finding it to be a pretty good "I'd like an answer to this question, I don't want to wade through a bunch of google results trying to find the one that answers this question" engine. Sometimes…

If the answer is wrong for topics you do know, why trust the answers for things you don’t? What’s going to be the term for Gell-Mann amnesia[1] but applied to LLMs instead of the media? [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190808123852/http://larvatus.c...

The questions I ask on topics I am familiar with are usually very demanding. On these it is clear that there are limits to its comprehension and reasoning abilities, but nonetheless, I find it very impressive.

Questions I ask on topics I am not familiar with are much further from the limits of its knowledge. I find it to be an amazing tool for quickly getting a structured overview of a new subject, including pros and cons of different alternatives and risks I should be aware of.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?

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Post by asmr »

Not necessarily OpenAI GPT powered, but local LLMs have gotten pretty good over the past few weeks. I am most interested in using an LLM for automation with tools like AutoGPT and Godmode.space.

I prefer using an LLM locally if possible since it gives me more control and I don't have to worry about the additional cost or OpenAIs infrastructure being under load.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?

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Post by anotherpaulg »

ilaksh wrote: post #155
anotherpaulg wrote: post #55

I've been experimenting with using ChatGPT for coding and building up some useful tooling. The result is aider, which is a command-line tool that allows you to code with GPT-4 in the terminal. Ask GPT for features, improvements, or bug fixes and aider will directly apply the suggested changes to your source files. Each change is automatically committed to git with a descriptive commit message. https://paul-gauthier.g…

Nice solution with the search and replace blocks to edit code. I spent quite awhile trying to get regular patch files for stuff to work consistently. Then I switched to having it use sed which was better but still not totally consistent. Can you add a license?

I just added Apache 2.0. Thanks for the reminder, I've been meaning to add a license.

I tried `sed` as well, every variant of `diff` output, various json structured formats, etc. The edit block syntax I chose is modeled after the conflict resolution markup you get from a failed `git merge`. I find it's very helpful to ask GPT to output in a format that is already in popular use. It has probably seen plenty of examples in its training data.

Asking GPT to output edits really only works ~reliably in GPT-4. Even then, my parser has to be permissive and go with the flow. GPT-3.5 was a lost cause for outputting any editing syntax -- it only worked reliably by outputting the entire modified source file. Which was slow and wasted the small context window.

Both 3.5 and 4 seem to be able to think more clearly about the actual coding task when you allow them to use an output format they're comfortable with. If you require them to output a bespoke format, or try too hard to ask for "minimal" edits... the quality of the actual code changes suffers. The models are used to seeing uninterrupted blocks of code in plain text, and so they seem to do best if you choose an output format that embraces that.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?

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Post by tornato7 »

bartkappenburg wrote: post #39

So, everyone's favorite is the one they built themselves?

Yes, because GPT-powered services are usually just lousy abstractions over the OpenAI API, and implementing them for your own custom niche will work much better.

For example, I tried Otter's meeting summarizer, and it was incomprehensible, but when I implemented it myself with GPT-4 I got stellar results.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?

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Post by vaughnegut »

lonelos wrote: post #14

Phind is a GPT powered search engine optimized for developers / technical documentation. It searches the web and tries to aggregate results from multiple web sites. Although there are instances where it references outdated versions of libraries, on balance, it significantly reduced my time spent on technical research. https://www.phind.com/

Yeah Phind is the only AI service I use on a daily basis. Plus, free access to GPT-4 in answers is a bonus. They really nailed the experience

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?

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Post by balder1991 »

voidhorse wrote: post #87
sgt wrote: post #73

Am I the only one who isn't using ChatGPT on a regular basis? Though I've made a few attempts to use it, generally I already know the answers to most trivial questions. And by going into more complex questions and scenarios, it becomes apparent that ChatGPT lacks a deep understanding of the suggestions it provides. It turns out to be a pretty frustrating experience. Also I've noticed that by the time I've crafted int…

This aligns perfectly with my experience. I feel like I haven't found the correct way to utilize these tools yet as, just like you, whenever I attempt to use them for some intellectual work it proves to be a huge waste of time and the old manual hunt for information and DIY approach is much more effective. I know a lot of people leverage gpt for basic writing tasks. I'm confident in my writing ability and enjoy writi…

One thing I like to do with it is telling it to act as a machine that, for every text I paste, it outputs specific academic subjects and their respective courses that dive deep into that subject, so I know where to learn more.

Another option is you want to learn about X, you can ask ChatGPT to give you a list of authors or subjects that discuss that topic deeper, which give you a head start, as you can then ask follow up questions such as where their central argument fit in the bigger scheme, which were more influential etc.

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