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Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?

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Post by [deleted] »

dandelany wrote: post #25
woeirua wrote: post #18

Call 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 receptioni…

I am dreading the inevitable future day when I have to argue about a denied health insurance claim on the phone with a fucking robot prompted to make it as difficult as possible for me to win.

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Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?

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Post by SuoDuanDao »

Zealotux wrote: post #5
juvvel wrote: post #3

It 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.

executing the code it's recommending tends to cut the bullshit pretty quick.

Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?

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Post by cyrialize »

saklani wrote: post #27

1. Quick code reviews. 2. Generating tests. 3. Good for dumb questions, that I'd hate asking a person. I'm generally just faster coding.

How are you using it for code reviews?

Are you copy-pasting code that you are working on or code others are working on from you company into ChatGPT?

Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?

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Post by bilsbie »

woeirua wrote: post #18

Call 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 receptioni…

Most call centers aren’t about answering questions though.

It’s more about putting the ability to make changes to your system behind a phone wall and an employees judgement.

AI can still do that role but it’s nowhere as easy as a question answering bot.

Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?

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Post by realusername »

Filligree wrote: post #22

Unlike 3.5, GPT-4 is competent at translation. Not just competent; it's better than most human translators. We might not want to leave it to its own devices yet , but there's a large number of novels that were never translated, or were only translated badly. Personally, I've been setting things up to have it translate a series of light novels from Japanese to English. Experiments through the chat interface show it's…

Text translation is basically solved with DeepL, at least on the languages it supports, it's indistinguishable for my native language.

This is not talked much right now but language learning will become a hobby at this point between the increasing quality of speech recognition, translation and speech synthesis.

Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?

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Post by karmasimida »

woeirua wrote: post #18

Call 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 receptioni…

I think call center is already a job that nobody wants.

Yes it is a job and it brings bread, but it can be something people really want to avoid and consider as a last resort.

Also, at least for peak time, current call center technology is NOT adequate to elastically scale up. The call center UX is basically a huge collection of anti-patterns, to persuade you NOT to talk a human.

All in all, as a user, I want to see the way the current call center being handled, gone.

Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?

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Post by Arnehuang »

yosito wrote: post #14
cjdoc29 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Wow thats incredible. How are you managing the 200 threads - are you using the api for that? Or just using their chat interface on chat.openai.com and scrolling to the relevant one to continue the converstaion

Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?

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Post by johnfn »

I think GPT4 isn't amazing (that is, better than excellent humans) at any specific task, so I doubt that many things it does, in isolation, are remarkable. Where they shine is that GPT4 and ChatGPT are really good at doing lots of menial tasks really quickly. e.g. I can ask it to refactor my code, rewrite it in a different style, add a new function etc and it'll happily do that all day.

Probably the best use case was for learning about things I didn't understand. I asked GPT4 questions about CSS Grid yesterday. With GPT4 I could drill directly into areas I was curious about and get a pretty uniformly good explanation, e.g. "explain to me more about the layout algorithm". Doing that with google is possible, but it's annoying to have to continually bounce between various shoddy articles on different websites in order to get a patchwork of understanding.

Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?

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Post by jacknews »

yosito wrote: post #2

I'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…

Would love to read a blog post showing this in detail.
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