Live data from Hacker News

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

news.ycombinator.com

171–180 of 266 posts

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

#171

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 go…

Havana's summarization is actually pretty good - we're using at Pylon as well!

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

#175
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…

I have used it at the very beginning but I've been mostly disappointed aside of few examples. Things it proved useful for: - learning new programming languages and solving hackerrank or codewars katas in languages I didn't know. It sped up and lowered my learning curve. - writing recommendation letters based on my inputs ("write a recommendation letter for X, knowing those are his strengths and what he's good at). Th…

Try w 4

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

#176

Besides ChatGPT, I'm getting enough added value from CoPilot and Grammarly to make them worth paying for. https://www.perplexity.ai/ is favourite "search" tool (ironically beating GPT enhanced Bing) for outright speed and quality of results.

Thanks for this. I just tried it and I am impressed. Bookmarked.

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

#177
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 Although there are instances where it references outdated versions of libraries, on balance, it significantly reduced my time spent on technical research.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've used it many times for things that aren't technical. It's fantastic. I love that it provides references.

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

#180
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…

I use it extensively. For example I was getting an error that no variable X was on an object. I could see the object in the debugger and could see the variable.

I put the section of code into chat gpt and the error and it said that the function I was using returned a collection of the object and I was using it as if it was the actual object. Obviously I had not noticed the punctuation that the debugger used to indicate a collection.

I recently was looking for the melting points and hardness of various materials. Obvious ones were easily available, but what is the melting point of brick or granite? I put in a big list of materials and chat gpt got them all.

Finally today I had a shopping list and I asked chat GPT to organize by aisle for the store I was going to. It did a bad job, but it was mostly correct. I could easily fix the mistakes myself.

I think for many things chat gpt gets 90% of the way there and the 10% you have to fix is no big deal.

I really like it for generating sql queries and regular expressions. Two things that take me a lot of time that I do infrequently enough that I can never remember how it works.

A friend of mine said he feels like chat GPT will enable a resurgence in the generalist programmer. Im a solid developer but I dont do enough to be completely immersed. Chat GPT is amazingly productive for new areas or areas I dont do that often. Recently Ive used it for linux networking, oauth, some reasonably complex SQL queries, ruby threading, and working with the Ruby 2D API.

Post reply on HN