Curious to see how others have leveraged ChatGPT in unique ways to support or enhance their daily routines (beyond the usual coding support etc).
Ask HN: What are some non-obvious ways you've used ChatGPT to improve your life?
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#2I found it is pretty good at generating work-out routines, especially with some conditions. For example "Give me a workout routine I can do at home with minimal equipment and with a sore hamstring" or "Give me a weekly running workout plan to prepare for a 5k, with no long runs"
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#3I asked it to interview me with a series of 5-10 questions in an effort to identify what new subjects I might like to learn or hobbies to enjoy. That worked pretty well.
I also asked some vague medical questions, the sort that aren't urgent enough to go to the doctor over, and that was helpful too and led to me making a couple of choices that actually improved my quality of life.
I find it really helpful as a creative writing assistant, too, not to generate text, but side research questions. That's not so unique though.
Re: Ask HN: What are some non-obvious ways you've used ChatGPT to improve your life?
#4I found it is pretty good at generating work-out routines, especially with some conditions. For example "Give me a workout routine I can do at home with minimal equipment and with a sore hamstring" or "Give me a weekly running workout plan to prepare for a 5k, with no long runs"
It is also amazing at forming a diet plan when you give it macros and micros. It doesn't get it perfect but it's close.
I have a gym at home and it will spit out workouts for me based on a past script. It's great for that.
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#5I asked it to interview me with a series of 5-10 questions in an effort to identify what new subjects I might like to learn or hobbies to enjoy. That worked pretty well. I also asked some vague medical questions, the sort that aren't urgent enough to go to the doctor over, and that was helpful too and led to me making a couple of choices that actually improved my quality of life. I find it really helpful as a creativ…
Got that prompt for the hobby one?
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#6I'm using it to write short stories where my 3 year old kid is the hero (a custom GPT sets the proper context (name, age, location, interest) so the prompts can be short like "a story about learning to read with a new dragon friend")... and doing so bilingually, with each paragraph available in both languages
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#8Mine is a chrome plugin (available on github and store) which sends selected text to chatgpt (with your own predefined prompt) for answers. Use it frequently to understand jargon. Used it today translate a japanese tweet about some new exciting development in speed of stable diffusion.
Re: Ask HN: What are some non-obvious ways you've used ChatGPT to improve your life?
#9I asked it to interview me with a series of 5-10 questions in an effort to identify what new subjects I might like to learn or hobbies to enjoy. That worked pretty well. I also asked some vague medical questions, the sort that aren't urgent enough to go to the doctor over, and that was helpful too and led to me making a couple of choices that actually improved my quality of life. I find it really helpful as a creativ…
Got that prompt for the hobby one?
It wasn't anything special, I'm sure I just said something like the above. I remember making it clear that I didn't want it to ask the questions all at once; and that I wanted its followup questions to be based off of my answers along the way.
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#10I told it to make a user persona. I described myself, and told it about things I'm into (youtube channels, forums, blogs etc). It made a full profile.
Then I asked it questions like "where does this person spend time online?" or "what do they enjoy doing in their free time?".
I actually discovered a few new places like this, e.g. r/depthhub