r/coolguides - How to use ChatGPT

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Same for me with the resistivity of a wire. Turns out it didn’t know the differences between the words ‘thickness’ and ‘radius’.
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Maybe someone else got to it first and instructed it never to disclose the correct formula 😆
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i just always ask it "Are you sure?" after it gives me a response, the next response will be an accurate answer or it will confirm the first one was correct.
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Yep. It's a statistical software for "what word should most likely come next?" Sometimes, it spews the most confusing information.
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I’ve been using it for physics and it seldomly gets the answer correct. Earlier I had to calculate something and asked it to do it. It kept using 2/5 in the calculation even though I knew it was 1/5. I kept telling it “that’s incorrect” and would just repeat “You’re right, my apologies. The formula is 2/5 ….. “
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Did you forget to tell it to have the IQ level of Musk, Tesla, and Einstein combined? That oughtta do the trick.
lol, on a side note, I love seeing posts like this because it reminds me that even if AI replaces a ton of jobs, there are just SO MANY people who have no idea how anything works that I'll still have something useful to do.
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Sweeping generalization :
People with strong "Google-fu" have no difficulties with ChatGPT use, because they understand Boolean, for example.
Those that don't will always struggle with IT and its use.
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I'm someone who is pretty good at this stuff, but still I wonder what is it that makes that difference?
Is it related to personality or is it more a learned skill?
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As someone with strong google-flu this kinda makes sense. But I'd say with AI it's generally easier to get it to a satisfactory answer because it can understand intent better. Of course knowing what a boolean would help you a lot but that's because you learn to be more specific.
The more specific you are, and the more you tell it what you don't want, the better the quality of the output. It's like a having a junior employee under you, the more vague the instructions, the less quality output.
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So, a few days ago, we asked chatgpt to give us the 5 best Restaurants near our location, sorted by cuisine.
There was sushi, a Pizzeria, the rest i forgot. Sounded really nice. Bummer, none of it existed. It's an ai, not a search engine at last.
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ChatGPT can’t count words right now, so those word count prompts should fail. They may be close because it can count tokens but tokens are not the same as words.
Other prompts are pretty good.
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Yeah, I was chatting with it at the weekend and it said it can’t do word counts. Made me feel this whole post is dubious if something as basic as that is wrong.
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For those who have been mislead and think ChatGPT can be used as a search engine: ChatGPT is a text generator. It will give you an answer but rarely a correct or true one. It's the same as when you write a message using the autocorrect's suggestion. ChatGPT is not intelligent and it does not understand the question. It only strings together the words that have the highest probability of appearing in a text that contains the words used in your prompt. If you want an answer, don't use a text generator, use a search engine (google, bing, duckduckgo, qwant and so on). If you want fun, use https://www.cat-gpt.com/
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“IQ level of musk” posts a shitty meme then runs it’s company into the ground
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Using Bard try:
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What is the best restaurant in Paris to serve vegetarian food?
Please review all available reviews from all sources
Then conduct Pareto analysis to tell me the top 20% of vegetarian restaurants
Then tell me which restaurant is the best vegetarian restaurant in Paris.
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According to Google reviews, the top 20% of vegetarian restaurants in Paris are:
Otium Rose Bakery Soya Jah Jah By Le Tricycle Wild and the Moon Saint-Honoré Le Daily Syrien Veggie La Chance Primeur Le Potager de Charlotte So Nat Bodhi Vegan Macéo Veggie Tasty Breizh Café Le Véganiste La Fleur en Pain Les Barioles de Maud AlKaram Mian Fan Verse Toujours
The best vegetarian restaurant in Paris is Otium, which has a rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars based on over 1,000 Google reviews. Otium is a fine-dining restaurant that serves plant-based dishes. The menu changes daily, but some of the dishes that have been praised by reviewers include the "beet tartare with tahini and pomegranate," the "roasted cauliflower with pine nuts and raisins," and the "chocolate mousse with salted caramel."
Otium is located in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, and it is open for dinner from Tuesday to Saturday. The restaurant is closed on Sunday and Monday.
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Here are some of the best things people say about Otium:
The food is delicious and creative. The service is excellent. The atmosphere is elegant and sophisticated. The prices are reasonable.
Here is one of the worst things people say about Otium:
The restaurant can be quite crowded, especially on weekends. The menu can be a bit overwhelming,
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Unless you’re specifically using an internet-connected ChatGPT flavor like bing or bard, most prompts looking for real information are going to fail, i.e. summarizing the google doc, or looking for movies/restaurants. I bet it’ll come up with realistic-looking results for these types of prompts, but it’ll all be hallucination.
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Couldn’t get past the part where ChatGPT demands my phone number to finish signing up, after I gave them my name and email address. They have no need whatsoever for my dam phone number, except to sell it.
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I want you to act as an interviewer. I will be the candidate and you will ask me the interview questions for the [position] position. I want you to only reply as the interviewer. Do not write all the conservation at once. I want you to only do the interview with me. Ask me the questions and wait for my answers. Do not write explanations. Ask me the questions one by one like an interviewer does and wait for my answers. My first sentence is "Hi" JavaScript Console I want you to act as a javascript console. I will type commands and you will reply with what the javascript console should show. I want you to only reply with the terminal output inside one unique code block, and nothing else. do not write explanations. do not type commands unless I instruct you to do so. when i need to tell you something in english, i will do so by putting text inside curly brackets {like this}. my first command is console.log("Hello World");
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And now I'm using chatGPT as a tourguide.. Love the work OP, thank you!
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Yeah people are wasting so much opportunity with all the games to try and break it or make it be crazy.
I was born just before search engines and the internet changed everything, and watched it growing up. This is absolutely that next thing. I started using it helpfully instead of goofing and it’s so fucking big my friends. It’s so big I won’t share publicly and me and my friends have been taking it further every day.
People. Please think long and hard about how something like Jarvis could actually make your life better. This is a tool you should be using to make drastic life improvements before it’s hidden behind a paywall. The way we are using it doesn’t require it to get every answer correct.
These things the way they are now TODAY already will change everything. I think people are missing a huge opportunity. Learning how the query it and what type of questions to ask are huge.
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Unless you give some hint what you're talking about, I'm going to assume you're just someone who isn't creative and/or doesn't spend much time thinking for yourself. For example, you might ask something like 'Give me 30 random things to achieve before I'm 30' and think you've unlocked some key discovery, but others just make those things up.
It's not like you can ask it the meaning of life. However you can ask it to do work for you that you can then pass off as your own e.g. write a business plan. That's useful but not satisfying or groundbreaking.
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