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by yosito 892 days ago
It will be interesting to see if anyone has made any worthwhile custom GPTs. I've tried making custom GPTs and, to be frank, I found the functionality extremely basic and barely more effective than just copy/pasting a custom prompt.
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I'm made a few that I find _incredibly_ useful to me, personally.

The one with the most usage by people other than me (posted it on twitter) is https://chat.openai.com/g/g-MGIdYisxl-small-answer

It's called "Small Answer". It's exactly what it sounds like. It gives very short and concise answers, which means it's very fast. Very useful when there are load problems or you just want it to be short and to the point.

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I made another that is ridiculously niche, but has been useful to a few others. https://chat.openai.com/g/g-thBmRjljk-ffmpeg-build-script-cr...

"ffmpeg Build Script Creator" - it generates a build script for you to build a custom build of ffmpeg with only the features you need on the platform you need it on (to minimize binary size etc. probably for embedding in an application).

This is the kind of thing I'm looking more forward to on GPT store. Incredibly niche use cases that someone took the time to prompt / provide sample data / 3rd party information for it to work properly.

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The most useful by far to me is "The Full Imp". It does a much better job building full implementations of things you tell it to. I find it much higher quality than Grimoire and GPT-4.

https://chat.openai.com/g/g-7k9sZvoD7-the-full-imp

AutoExpert[1] is indispensable to my use of ChatGPT now, and I’ve found that the GPT release is ‘better’ now than the custom instructions based release. If you haven’t used it I highly recommend it.

[1] https://github.com/spdustin/ChatGPT-AutoExpert

I’ve seen a few of these floating around. I think one was called professor synapse. I honestly couldn’t discern an improvement when I tried it. Is this one better? Can anybody comment on whether this approach has merit or if it’s mostly hype?
I'm building Choir. Choir humanizes ChatGPT, augmenting the AI response with messages from humans that are relevant to your prompt. Each prompt you write into Choir gets saved to our database, so the more usage Choir gets, the smarter the Choir collective intelligence becomes.

Check it out at https://choir.chat — it redirects directly to the Choir custom GPT.

What is that useful for?
It’s useful if you want a more creative output. Good for brainstorming, thinking out loud, and refining ideas.