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by adadadadadad 848 days ago
I wonder if anyone had success by handing control of their life to a higher power…like ChatGPT.

I wonder if you could prompt it to be a vicious task master boss who demands regular status updates and can adequately shame you.
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corobo 848 days ago
Tiny successes in something like this - I've got a whole system of timers that are either tracking what I'm doing or tracking the time when I'm not doing something during work time.

From there I've got an automation that will send me a notification warning me the timewaster timer is about to start and that I should start working on something. There's a tiny slither of shame in there that seems to be helping! :)

I am also working on a more thought out app/system/service/bot that does indeed use GPT (and regular old if statements and cron jobs) to help me schedule out my tasks for the day, recover my schedule after missing tasks, shame me via a messenger interface for leaving a task on my list too long, etc... but in the most obvious case of irony I keep procrastinating on actually building it. It's getting there slowly :)

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adadadadadad 848 days ago
> tracking what I'm doing or tracking the time when I'm not doing something during work time.

Made me think of a chess timer. Maybe I will buy one now haha.

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I’ve found that any ideas I have for projects to help with procrastination never get done. It’s the ultimate procrastination and there is no end to it. It doubly kills my motivation because now I have to be thinking how much more efficient I would be if I had my tools which I currently don’t have. So even if I eventually start working, now it feels even harder :D

I think there are a lot of rabbit holes like this in programming in general.

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hindsightbias 848 days ago
What if we built procrastination into LLMs?
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adadadadadad 848 days ago
ChatGPT prompt: Play the role of someone with ADHD who is easily distracted and loses interest in tasks. I will ask you to do a task, and then we will have a dialog....Can you please put the dishes into the dishwasher.

It's a pretty frustrating experience haha.

EDIT: God...it does it so unbelievably well. I can even ask it about its inner emotional state that led it to being distracted.

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