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Re: Show HN: I built a better UI for ChatGPT

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Post by itsuka »

singularity2001 wrote: post #21
Loeffelmann wrote: post #14

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Ohh man I wanted to publish my own electron app today :( It's basically doing the same thing. I found that using API keys is also significantly cheaper than using the subscription with moderate usage. Congrats on the release.

Don't worry there are only about 10,000 people working on similar apps right now ;)

I'm also building a personal ChatGPT client for a similar reason as the OP, which is to address the issues of buggy and slow UX, among others. As you mentioned, many people are currently working on projects using ChatGPT API. In fact, in the past 24 hours, around 12 new apps that have been showcased on OpenAI Discord channel alone. Some of these apps are open source, which makes them a great source of learning and inspiration for me.

Re: Show HN: I built a better UI for ChatGPT

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Post by TeMPOraL »

lordnacho wrote: post #28
trungdq88 wrote: post #18

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Yep, I was surprised I about the response time too. I'm not sure what's going on under the hood, maybe OpenAI did something with the stream output that causes the slowness.

Perhaps it is simply a way to limit the number of queries? If you force people to wait 10s for an answer they aren't writing new questions all the time.

For me it's been consistently the case that after 2-3 messages, the animation would start to visibly lag, and eventually (on 3rd or 4th reply) slow to a halt, sometimes mid-sentence, completely bricking the session. It's been like this since ChatGPT was first opened to public. I initially assumed it's just the usual case of a bloated SPA, but now I think maybe I'm being throttled on purpose?

Re: Show HN: I built a better UI for ChatGPT

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Post by throwaway86530 »

Very neat. I am already using it.

One feature I would love is passing a prompt (or even a conversation) using queryparams. It would help for the integration with other tools.

Another feature I'd love is to exploit the 'system' agent. From the documentation, there are three possible agents : User, Assistant and System. My understanding is that system can be exploited to drive the expected general behavior of the assistant and seems very useful to that regard.

Last thing, if it was open-source I could clone it and that would dismiss any fears from having my API key stolen. But that's up to you of course.

Re: Show HN: I built a better UI for ChatGPT

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Post by Tostino »

lowefk wrote: post #30
vlovich123 wrote: post #29

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Isn’t ChatGPT itself closed source?

I mean, - ChatGPT's UI is closed-source, so I implemented a UI that looks almost identical to ChatGPT, - While ChatGPT's AI model is closed source, it can be accessed through the OpenAI API.

Not to mention, there are already OpenAI API clones which handle running against any of the open-source models. When they get more powerful and act as an actual competitor, it'll be very nice to have open-source components throughout the stack.

Re: Show HN: I built a better UI for ChatGPT

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Post by behnamoh »

itsuka wrote: post #31
singularity2001 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't worry there are only about 10,000 people working on similar apps right now ;)

I'm also building a personal ChatGPT client for a similar reason as the OP, which is to address the issues of buggy and slow UX, among others. As you mentioned, many people are currently working on projects using ChatGPT API. In fact, in the past 24 hours, around 12 new apps that have been showcased on OpenAI Discord channel alone. Some of these apps are open source, which makes them a great source of learning and in…

> Some of these apps are open source, which makes them a great source of learning and inspiration for me.

Do you then reference those open source apps?

Re: Show HN: I built a better UI for ChatGPT

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Post by trungdq88 »

101008 wrote: post #23

Looks amazing - congrats! I haven't checked the API in detail but how do you keep the context of the conversation (awareness of previous questions and answers)? Do you send back the whole conversation on every request?

yes, each new request contains the whole conversation.

Re: Show HN: I built a better UI for ChatGPT

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Post by dmw_ng »

Can anyone recommend a UI clone as close to the regular ChatGPT as possible, but built on the API? The API traffic is sent directly into Azure while the regular UI is sent via CloudFlare. Vastly prefer the former reading my conversations than the latter
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