Ask Lemmy

I use bing chat/copilot to help me with writing powershell scrpts

I use it a lot for random memes and shit, like rewriting All Stars to be about hot dogs.

I also use it to edit my creative writing, mostly just tone and grammar

Well, I've tried using it for the following:

• Asking questions and looking up information in my job's internal knowledgebase, using a specially designed LLM trained specifically on our public and internal knowledgebase. It repeatedly gave me confidently incorrect answers and linked nonexistent articles.

• Deducing a bit of Morse code that didn't have any spaces in it, creating an ambiguous word. I figured it could iterate through the possible solutions easily enough, saving me the time of doing it myself. I gave up in frustration after it repeatedly gave answers that were incorrect from the very first letter.

If I ever get serious about looking for a new job, I'll probably try and have it type up the first draft of a cover letter for me. With my luck, it'll probably claim I was a combat veteran or some shit even though I'm a fat 40-something who's never even talked with a recruitment officer in their life.

Oh, funny story--some of my coworkers at the job got the brilliant idea to use the company LLM to write responses to users for them. Needless to say, the users were NOT pleased to get messages signed "Company ChatGPT LLM." Management put their foot down immediately that doing it was a fireable offense and made it clear that we tracked every request sent to our chatbot.

Literally the only time I've used one, I was upset about something and just wanted somebody to talk to. Sooo I vented to chat gpt. ¯⁠\⁠(⁠°⁠_⁠o⁠)⁠/⁠¯

It felt sorta like talking to a therapist, except its tone was very formal/polite and every once in a while it asked you to choose between two different responses (for training or whatever), which would be pretty strange for a human to do.

I use it as my travel agent. It planned my trip to one of a big US cities (did a really good job) and to advise me what I should know as a European driver driving on American roads for the first time.

Edit: Also, Claude by Anthropic is great at re-writing passages of generic text in the style of Donald Trump.

I know this is a work example, but it's pretty good at writing Excel formulas. Helpful because my brain works in Python, not spreadsheet.

Also, when I have a word on the tip of my tongue (I know someone said this already), beyond helping me get the word it can help me out context around how it is used.

Coding.

The other day I needed to set up a node service with an HTML front-end that allows me to upload files from a browser that end up on my machine hosted in a docker container. Something like this would take me the better part of a day to complete. Through a series of prompts I got what I needed deployed in less than an hour.

Then unit tests. Sometimes all I need is good code coverage and since it's just tests you can verify the quality of the generated code if it runs and covers the lines you want. I've saved a ton of hours of tedious code coverage work this way.

I don't.

And it's not really useful for work either, but that's not stopping my employer from blowing tons of money trying to shoehorn it into everything.

I would love a local one to use for the same things as CharGpt only I want to control the knowledge training dataset so only quality data is in it.

I do not have the resources or knowledge to pull this off but it would be really nice to not worry about garbage-in-garbage-out.

Helping me break down annoyingly long/poorly formatted code segments so I can think more clearly about how to troubleshoot them.

Generating meal plan ideas (I generally do my own thing but having it pick out proteins for any given day of the week helps me to mix things up)

Assisting me as a GM in games for the reasons other people have already mentioned. I also have my hands on a module that lets an LLM pose as an NPC and give dialogue when spoken to that is absolutely fantastic when my players want to talk to some random NPC I don't give a shit about.

Those are the biggest and most every day things.

Sometimes I ask it for music recommendations.

But mostly I tend to just use it like a fancy thesaurus when I'm low on mental energy.

It's pretty nifty for software development.

It also comes in clutch when I have a word on the tip of my tongue, and a Google search isn't taking into account the nuances you know that this word has. It might take some follow-up, like "that's close, but the word I'm thinking of has negative connotations, and I know that it's used in [INSERT CONTEXT]"

I use ChatGPT to tell me how to pronounce obscure words.

I use GitHub Copilot as code completion tool

Drop-in replacement for stack overflow, letting ChatGPT modify my RCode to do simple things, rephrasing text and extracting equations from PDFs as Latex code. I also used Stable Diffusion to make some absurd Christmas cards last year.

I use it for a jumping off point creating an itinerary for trips. Asking to create a 3 day itinerary with a mix of recommended restaurants, bars and cafes in between has been really helpful. The google maps links usually don't work but you need to confirm the places still exist anyway, and adjust as needed.

Help me make fancy html for my personal website lol 😂