ChatGPT - Interesting Things You’ve Used It For

[Gadgetmac]

Well I have both ChatGPT and Bard and aside from a couple of basic light hearted questions I fired at it and then asked it to reply again in poetic form and then in poetic form but with each verse starting with the letter Y, I’m really at a lose for how to use it for more sophisticated outcomes that I can’t do myself using google.

So, anyone found a great use for it?

The best I’ve heard so far is to create an Email script for making somebody redundant but in a compassionate way. I was hoping for more TBH.

[CharlieCrocodile]

I've used it for powershell scripts, 200-300 word SEO friendly blogs of which it wrote a year's worth in less than an hour, bicep scripts.

[NuckyThompson]

Tried signing up for it but keeps saying signup unavailable? I thought those issues were a few weeks ago?

[Gadgetmac]

NuckyThompson said:

Tried signing up for it but keeps saying signup unavailable? I thought those issues were a few weeks ago?

Go here: https://chat.openai.com/chat

Or download the Nova app

[Rollin]

Job advert. Boring, but did a good job.

[BlindedByTheLights]

Got it to rewrite my cv personal statement and it did a good job. I also used it as a demo to create an emergency scenario for training.

[InformationSuperHighway]

I asked it to write a LinkedIn recommendation for someone.

By the time i refined the prompts and edited the output I probably didn't save much time on writing it myself.

[king arthur]

I asked it how I can execute an ffmpeg command in PHP as a background task in such a way so that I can display a progress bar during transcoding, it got halfway through the answer and crashed.

[S100HP]

[mph999]

I needed a Linux shell script today, I could write it myself but it was a bit tricky in places and I needed it asap.

GBTs first attempt was close, but not correct, re-phased what I wanted and bingo.

Allowing for testing to be sure it was correct - 15 mins

It would have taken me as a guess 2-3 hours.

[Chimune]

That is fascinating to me. Was it a custom script or has it gone and searched for it?
Is the script it produced available somewhere- coz as i understand it, its a chat front end for the Internet with some added ml. It didnt take a course linux scripting.... did it ?

[Puzzles]

I signed up and asked a few questions and found the answers to be verging on terrible. Certainly unusable.

Maybe it’s user error

[mph999]

Chimune said:

That is fascinating to me. Was it a custom script or has it gone and searched for it?
Is the script it produced available somewhere- coz as i understand it, its a chat front end for the Internet with some added ml. It didnt take a course linux scripting.... did it ?

Custom script, it wrote it from scratch.

I have another task, also a script that it is struggling with, although I think that is because I may have hit the limits of what awk can do. When I get time I'll give it a description of what I need, and ask it to produce it in Perl.

Edited by mph999 on Thursday 30th March 01:34

[Tycho]

king arthur said:

I asked it how I can execute an ffmpeg command in PHP as a background task in such a way so that I can display a progress bar during transcoding, it got halfway through the answer and crashed.

If it just stops, click submit again and it'll carry on from the same place.

mph999 said:

Chimune said:

That is fascinating to me. Was it a custom script or has it gone and searched for it?
Is the script it produced available somewhere- coz as i understand it, its a chat front end for the Internet with some added ml. It didnt take a course linux scripting.... did it ?

Custom script, it wrote it from scratch.

I have another task, also a script that it is struggling with, although I think that is because I may have hit the limits of what awk can do. When I get time I'll give it a description of what I need, and ask it to produce it in Perl.

Edited by mph999 on Thursday 30th March 01:34

I've used it for quite a lot of Python scripts and it is usually about 90% correct. It is also useful to transform data, I had a load of excel data to put into Python lists and it did it really well.

Edited by Tycho on Thursday 30th March 08:26

[Jimmy No Hands]

I'm doing a degree at the moment (game dev) and I've used it extensively to write fairly simple C# scripts for me to use in Unity. They have a 90% success rate, with a little prompt engineering. Most of the time I encounter issues is when we're not quite on the same page in terms of what I want. (I'm not a programmer) Even when they don't work I can mostly de-construct them and use them as a template. It's changed my work flow.

[NuckyThompson]

Gadgetmac said:

Go here: https://chat.openai.com/chat

Or download the Nova app

still get the same message

[TimmyMallett]

This is what it's designation is. You do all realise the more you get it to write code/script/algorithms the more the machines are likely to kill us?

Edited by TimmyMallett on Thursday 30th March 09:35

[DaveTheRave87]

I got it to rebook World Championship Wrestling from 1999. Did 5 Monday Nitros and an unspecified Pay Per View.

It got all the wrestlers and feuds right but ended up with Hogan losing to Sting on Pay Per View. Any fans of that era of wrestling would know that idea would get the "that doesn't work for me, brother" treatment backstage.

[king arthur]

Chimune said:

That is fascinating to me. Was it a custom script or has it gone and searched for it?
Is the script it produced available somewhere- coz as i understand it, its a chat front end for the Internet with some added ml. It didnt take a course linux scripting.... did it ?

Do bear in mind that Microsoft, who have invested large sums of money into it, also own Github where rather a lot of coders place their code repositories.

[maffski]

Actually it reads Stack Overflow - https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/38660/was-c...

Just like a flesh and blood coder