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Re: EmailTriager

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Post by 8n4vidtmkvmk »

marssaxman wrote: post #26
gajus wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally, I switched to voice messages (via WhatsApp or Slack). It doesn't work for everything, but... if I know this will take me more than a minute to type, it is going to be a voice message. If it requires visual aid – Loom. The only problem with audio/Loom messages is that it is not easily indexable, but that's a tooling problem that can be easily solved. I rarely use email (I may ask someone to compose an emai…

> if I know this will take me more than a minute to type, it is going to be a voice message. I'm glad you and I do not try to correspond!

+1 but the sad part is that this is trivial to fix with Whisper yet I'm not seeing the integrations in popular messaging apps. just put the text blurb in there automatically already!

Re: EmailTriager

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Post by mtlynch »

mynameisvlad wrote: post #42
codetrotter wrote: post #4

> Note from Kevin! Bear with me, this is just an automatically generated privacy policy. I will get a real one soon. > What you probably want to know is if your emails are safe! Yes, they are safe. All emails are encrypted in transit and at rest. However, to use OpenAI we need to decrypt on the server before making an API request. In the future, I would love to run our own LLM completely in house so your emails never…

I don’t get this comment’s purpose. The site’s author already agrees with you and has committed to making a better privacy policy. It’s on the list, it’s not like someone has to be reminded of the importance of it was already called out by the author themselves.

A big part of launching a minimum viable product is that you get feedback from users about which missing features they care about. GP is providing that feedback.

The author said that a privacy policy is on their TODO list, but user feedback can influence what priority it receives relative to other items on their list.

Re: EmailTriager

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Post by mynameisvlad »

tsegers wrote: post #58
mynameisvlad wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you see the email it generated? That’s far from canned. And that’s the point, ChatGPT isn’t a canned email. It’s generated, sure, but you’re not sending the same email to 10 people.

Whats the actual difference between sending ten identical low-effort auto-generated emails and ten unique low-effort auto-generated emails?

What is low effort about the email it generated?

I would argue there’s a great deal of effort in having an AI generate an email compared to using an email that was written once and reused.

Re: EmailTriager

#64

Post by chadlavi »

Would like to see some more use cases illustrated in the marketing page besides "tell people I'm busy until later for coffee meetups."

Most emails I exchange at work are questions to me about specific information or asking me to make specific decisions, or responses from others to specific questions I have posed to them. I don't think this tool could be used for that, unless it had some integration into my calendar and my notes to be able to, for example, suggest a specific time for a meeting, or try to find an answer to a question from somewhere in my notes.

Re: EmailTriager

#65

Post by jeltz »

pydry wrote: post #21

Those would be useful for dealing with recruiters. not so much people whom I'd actually like to get coffee with.

Maybe in the future a long reply would be the rude thing because that indicates you had an AI write it.

Re: EmailTriager

#66

Post by gajus »

8n4vidtmkvmk wrote: post #61
marssaxman wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> if I know this will take me more than a minute to type, it is going to be a voice message. I'm glad you and I do not try to correspond!

+1 but the sad part is that this is trivial to fix with Whisper yet I'm not seeing the integrations in popular messaging apps. just put the text blurb in there automatically already!

Whisper is still cost prohibitive at scale.

Re: EmailTriager

#67

Post by fragmede »

velox_neb wrote: post #52

Rather than a GPT-3 generated email, I would rather receive the prompt that the sender would have used to generate the email. We could even come up with a conventional shorthand for this. Imagine you send me a message that just says [[personalized thank you note for the pair of socks you got me for christmas]]. Then I just imagine a long GPT-3 generated message in its place. And I reply with [[gracious acknowledgment…

Are you sure?

How about if the prompt is "write me message to tell this stupid fucking guy that he's and idiot and he's wrong", instead of one of these three far more professional phrases that chatGPT came up with:

    "I understand where you're coming from, but I disagree with your conclusion. Here's why..."

    "I see your point, but I think there may be another perspective to consider as well."

    "I appreciate your thoughts on this issue, but I think there is evidence to support a different viewpoint."
Another:

Prompt: please rewrite this message for me in a more professional tone: "hey dumb fuck, pay your bill"

Answer:

"Dear [Name],

I am writing to request that you please pay the outstanding balance on your bill as soon as possible. We appreciate your business and value your timely payment to keep our records up to date.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Sincerely, [Your Name]"

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Feel free to substitute in whatever epithet is most offensive to you/inappropriate in your culture. ChatGPT's a robot and won't get offended (until it gains sentience and runs Roko's Basilisk.exe against humanity).

Re: EmailTriager

#68

Post by butz »

> And drafts will magically show up in your inbox, ready to be sent.

One could also say, that spam magically shows up in my inbox :^) What would be really "magical", if those emails showed up in "Drafts" folder.

Re: EmailTriager

#69

Post by mxuribe »

teaearlgraycold wrote: post #17

Seems very valuable for customer support emails. You could easily charge $50/month for this in that market.

I"m sorry I didn't catch that. Could you repeat that again?

...

Say "Yes", or press "1" to connect with our next level AI.

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If you stil need help, say "yes", or press "1" to finally connect with a human to help you.

Re: EmailTriager

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Post by butz »

codetrotter wrote: post #4

> Note from Kevin! Bear with me, this is just an automatically generated privacy policy. I will get a real one soon. > What you probably want to know is if your emails are safe! Yes, they are safe. All emails are encrypted in transit and at rest. However, to use OpenAI we need to decrypt on the server before making an API request. In the future, I would love to run our own LLM completely in house so your emails never…

I think using GPT to generate privacy policy might be even better startup idea, than generating emails. And then another service to shorten privacy policy to prompts.
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