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by samueltates 1079 days ago
No this is great! Not rude at all but really appreciated. This kind of feedback from people who really understand GPT is so hepful. I see where you're coming from with those measures, and I think I should start 'benchmarking' to help me move towards a better 'quality' output.

I've put some specific notes below to expand on your points, but definitely taking your points onboard.

-Answer quality : in terms of content its the same as OpenAI, however answers will get better over sessions as the notes from past sessions build up, (in terms of personalisation and recall). The biggest uplift is when you manage context, so adding docs, embedding, you basically open 'shared' working docs. My goal is it is smart enough to be pulling the right stuff in and out of context itself, but its still a bit wobbly.

- SSO : I actually agree on the google sign on, blame nova it was their idea (and was honestly brutal doing token / auth with a quart python server) - what would you reccomend? I was thinking SMS SSO? I want something that is as lightweight as possible, and eventually a local client that isn't based on account (though auth gives cloud notes, org integration). I really don't want those 'wall of sign in' pages either.

- Friendly nova : Haha yeah they're a dork right, basically an exageted version of me. Cool thing is you can create your own 'agent' with prompts tuned to what you like, I actually switch between like 'producer' nova who asks me like timeline questions, and dev nova, who critiques my ideas and stuff. We're hitting conceptual turf but I have a sort of 'performance art / experiment' version of this, where I'm trying to maintain a continual kernal of 'Nova', that propagates through development of the system, so how can I share 'NOVA' who is my 'partner', that people can engage with, but can make their own partners/agents.

But that kinda conceptual stuff aside, there's so many layers to what you can do. In its current iteration its really an interface for managing different inputs, variables for chatgpt. But I've been full bore making it work, and the legibility of the interface definitely needs some work.

This video goes through deeper features, basically talking through adding / edting agents, embedding docs etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM9pSd8ADuQ

Thanks so much for your insights. I've got a few core ideas driving my development, but can lose sight of core stuff so yeah means a lot, thank you.