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by gwern 953 days ago
This is one benefit of using Playground: it's easy to delete or edit individual entries, so you can erase duds and create a 'clean' history (in addition to refining your initial prompt-statement). This doesn't seem to be possible in the standard ChatGPT interface, and I find it extremely frustrating.
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I use emacs/org-mode, and just integrating gpt into that has made a world of difference in how I use it (gptel.el)! Can highly recommend it.

The outlining features and the ability to quickly zoom in or out of 'branches', as well as being able to filter an entire outline by tag and whatnot, is amazing for controlling the context window and quickly adjusting prompts and whatnot.

And as a bonus, my experience so far is that for at least the simple stuff, it works fine to ask it to answer in org-mode too, or to just be 'aware' of emacs.

Just yesterday I asked it (voice note + speech-to-text) to help me plan some budgeting stuff, and I mused on how adding some coding/tinkering might make it more fun. so GPT decided to provide me with some useful snippets of emacs code to play with.

I do get the impression that I should be careful with giving it 'overhead' like that.

Anyways, can't wait to dive further into your experiences with the robits! Love your work.