Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
Mostly just asking stuff directly on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chat.openai.com&#x2F;chat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chat.openai.com&#x2F;chat</a>. Last 8 requests were (all successful):<p>- Asked it to improve a HN comment I wrote.<p>- Asked about an idiom I couldn&#x27;t remember, by saying it in other words.<p>- Asked it to dumb down some things about options (finance) I didn&#x27;t understand.<p>- Asked it if I could use the eBay API to list my purchase history (you can, and it knew how).<p>- Asked it to generate pretty standard Terms of Service for an app I&#x27;m working on.<p>- Asked it to generate a moderately complex Prisma (ORM) query that I described in natural language.<p>- Described what I wanted Nginx to do in natural language (e.g. &quot;the index file will be served whenever no file is found&quot;) and asked it to output a configuration file.<p>- Asked it what the &quot;XDG&quot; in &quot;XDG_CONFIG_HOME&quot; stood for.<p>Also, occasionally ask it to generate shell commands using a CLI I wrote[0].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;clevercli&#x2F;clevercli">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;clevercli&#x2F;clevercli</a>