[HN Gopher] Types of Conversations with Generative AI
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       Types of Conversations with Generative AI
        
       Author : adrian_mrd
       Score  : 83 points
       Date   : 2023-11-16 09:34 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
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       | FrustratedMonky wrote:
       | The more we study AI, the more we study ourselves.
        
       | pk-protect-ai wrote:
       | This is an interesting article that correlates with my
       | observations. However, what worries me is the amount of
       | information gathered and available to researchers about the
       | users. "Another user was doing research on the company,
       | Insperity. She asked multiple questions related to different
       | aspects of the company."
        
         | jechamt wrote:
         | Under "Our Research" section near the top:
         | 
         | "At the end of the study, we conducted in-depth interviews with
         | 14 participants."
         | 
         | I wondered something similar while reading, but recognized the
         | choices of explicit gender and detailed inquiry inclusion while
         | intentionally changing the names. These pointed me to the
         | likelihood this was in-house/controlled research. I believe
         | that is the case from the quote above, though I don't see any
         | additional details about how the study was conducted.
        
           | pk-protect-ai wrote:
           | It well might be an in-house research, but I have no doubt
           | that my credit-card is linked with what I've typed in
           | chatgpt. The immense amount of intel gathering capabilities
           | over the chat bots is insane.
        
       | cloudking wrote:
       | I've found expanding conversations with GPT-4 are most effective
       | for building code snippets. Start with asking for the basic
       | functionality and continue expanding the feature set. Here's an
       | example of building a simple local frontend app to interface with
       | the TTS API
       | https://chat.openai.com/share/8ea1e3ea-0763-4118-8c83-a2f5ea...
        
         | anotherpaulg wrote:
         | I agree that an iterative style of coding works great with GPT.
         | That's generally how I code as well, whether collaborating with
         | GPT or on my own. Start with "hello project" and then
         | incrementally add functionality and complexity.
         | 
         | But I have to ask, how do you update your files when iterating
         | on code within the ChatGPT web UI? Do you just copy the code
         | from your browser and manually find and replace the old code
         | chunks in your files?
         | 
         | I ask because my open source coding assistant aider automates
         | away all of that hassle. It lets GPT edit your local files
         | directly. It does a bunch more beyond that, but just the
         | ergonomics of letting _GPT edit your files_ is a huge win. The
         | coding iterations become effortless.
         | 
         | You might want to give it a try if you're using GPT a lot for
         | coding? You do need to provide your own OpenAI API key, so you
         | pay them for token usage as opposed to the all-you-can-eat
         | $20/month ChatGPT web UI.
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         | https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
        
           | cloudking wrote:
           | I copy and paste chunks for small changes, or ask for fully
           | updated code and copy the whole thing if there are complex
           | changes. Your project sounds very interesting! I'll give it a
           | try, thank you
        
       | kaycebasques wrote:
       | Oh, cool! Very happy to see Nielsen Norman Group joining the
       | convo. Their series on writing for the web is great.
        
       | j4yav wrote:
       | I always try to get to the point quickly, I feel like the longer
       | the conversation gets the more it forgets earlier important
       | context and I have to keep reminding it. Mainly using ChatGPT4.
        
       | mustacheemperor wrote:
       | Regarding users treating the chatbot like a search engine bar,
       | 
       | >Avoid using this type of prompt when working with AI bots like
       | ChatGPT. While search engines perform best with keywords, AI bots
       | need more context to understand what kind of response or output
       | you're looking for.
       | 
       | Just a few days ago in another thread I interacted with another
       | user who was complaining of how ChatGPT hallucinated an incorrect
       | response for the origin of the term 'bhangmeter'. I got a very
       | accurate response myself[0], and noted that their shared chat was
       | this 'keyword style,' staccato fragment approach[1]. I usually
       | ask ChatGPT questions conversationally, and with that approach I
       | got an accurate result.
       | 
       | I wonder if / suspect that one reason people seem to have such
       | varyingly different impressions of overall response accuracy with
       | ChatGPT comes down to different prompting approaches. If you
       | don't talk to ChatGPT and just bounce keywords off it instead,
       | you're not using it as designed, and it seems to result in less
       | accurate responses. If you talk to ChatGPT like it's a simple and
       | stupid computer search, it responds to you like one. We're kind
       | of forced to personify these tools a bit if we want the best
       | results.
       | 
       | [0]https://chat.openai.com/share/66788bbc-5c2e-4e0d-9a5d-370b2c..
       | . [1]https://chat.openai.com/share/8e9caf23-158b-498a-9261-7f257f
       | ...
        
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