Ask HN: How was your ChatGPT Experience?

1 pointsjacobkg3y ago3 comments

Despite all the news coverage, the several times I have attempted to use ChatGPT it has been down.

Have many folks here successfully been able to use it? (as opposed to just reading about it like me). What was your experience like? Any big surprises?

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ackatz3y ago

I use it every day. It is really good at succinctly explaining concepts that might require a Google search and sifting through things to find what you're looking for. It is imperfect, but still incredibly useful to me.

If you go into it without the mindset that you're out to discredit it and nudge it along with the prompts to find what you need, I think that is the most effective way to use ChatGPT right now.

metadat3y ago

How are you able to consistently access it, though? Short of paying $42/month, I can't consistently reach it.

ackatz3y ago

Not sure – I would say 85%+ of the time it is available to me to use. If not, I just try again in 15-20 mins if I must use it. Sometimes there are network errors with generating large responses, but I find that if I just reload the site and try again it works. I'm in the Pacific timezone.

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Ask HN: How was your ChatGPT Experience?

1 pointsjacobkg3y ago3 comments

Despite all the news coverage, the several times I have attempted to use ChatGPT it has been down.

Have many folks here successfully been able to use it? (as opposed to just reading about it like me). What was your experience like? Any big surprises?

3 comments

ackatz3y ago

If you go into it without the mindset that you're out to discredit it and nudge it along with the prompts to find what you need, I think that is the most effective way to use ChatGPT right now.

metadat3y ago

How are you able to consistently access it, though? Short of paying $42/month, I can't consistently reach it.

ackatz3y ago

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