Re:Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
by pama on Saturday March 25, 2023 @11:39AM
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Successful uses so far:
Cook with it. It can mimic Michelin style chefs, suggest replacements, adjust to your level, style, ingredients, and tools. No major mistakes; some spice mixes sounded odd at first but were worth it.
Sommelier: ask it for wine pairings and you’ll be happy. Can also pick best choices for a particular meal from your existing stock. I’ve found that cheap but spot on wines are often surprisingly good.
Planning tours and trips. It knows major sights in known cities and makes mostly correct rough walking paths.
Movies for the family. Adding detail during conversation and helping it go off the beaten path improved the recommendations (even generic guidance, like we’ve seen most good movies, but especially feedback on things it suggests.) We saw Pan’s labyrinth yesterday (I had seen it before, the other two in our party had not.)
Book recommendations. Discuss the options based on past experiences.
Showing friends that Emacs configuration can be simplified with it. (I don’t mind it, but some people don’t want to get deep into elisp.)
Gift recommendations. Adding personalized notes helps get those creative juices flowing.
It can do OK in some boilerplate coding as well, but I can’t use it for work projects so these tests were limited to simple hobby examples so far. I like that it knows many esoteric library interfaces and things like AppleScript that I’d not want to learn myself.
Cook with it. It can mimic Michelin style chefs, suggest replacements, adjust to your level, style, ingredients, and tools. No major mistakes; some spice mixes sounded odd at first but were worth it.
Sommelier: ask it for wine pairings and you’ll be happy. Can also pick best choices for a particular meal from your existing stock. I’ve found that cheap but spot on wines are often surprisingly good.
Planning tours and trips. It knows major sights in known cities and makes mostly correct rough walking paths.
Movies for the family. Adding detail during conversation and helping it go off the beaten path improved the recommendations (even generic guidance, like we’ve seen most good movies, but especially feedback on things it suggests.) We saw Pan’s labyrinth yesterday (I had seen it before, the other two in our party had not.)
Book recommendations. Discuss the options based on past experiences.
Showing friends that Emacs configuration can be simplified with it. (I don’t mind it, but some people don’t want to get deep into elisp.)
Gift recommendations. Adding personalized notes helps get those creative juices flowing.
It can do OK in some boilerplate coding as well, but I can’t use it for work projects so these tests were limited to simple hobby examples so far. I like that it knows many esoteric library interfaces and things like AppleScript that I’d not want to learn myself.