AskHN
AI
question answering bot
SHOW HN2023
How HN took it
9 positive, 38 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 21 critical, out of 69 comments about the project. Thread score -0.12.
Execution: 2 for, 7 againstIdea: 4 for, 5 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 5 againstDocs: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful for finding related HN posts and includes sources
From 2 comments
Love that it includes sources — this makes it much more valuable because you can tell if it's giving useful information or just blowing smoke.
gnicholas on HNInstead of being summarize tool, this bot is really useful if you want to search related hn post based on abstract thinking imo.
wastu on HN
Pleasantly surprised by answer quality
From 1 comment
I'm quite pleasantly surprised by this response: Question: what are the biggest fallacies of people that post on hackernews? Answer: One of the biggest fallacies of people that…
flappysolutions on HN
Objections
Bot writes in generic GPT style, not HN voice
From 1 comment
It seems to write in the generic "style" of GPT, instead of in the style I would recognise as a HN poster. Is that because of something baked into how the training process works?…
have_faith on HN
Description of training is misleading; it summarizes search results rather than being trained on HN
From 2 comments
I agree, that language could be very improved. This is not a GPT-like LLM whose training corpus is HN comments, which I found to be an extremely interesting idea. Instead, it…
stnmtn on HNAh got it. Perhaps they should edit the intro then, it's misleading.
btbuildem on HN
Answers contain nonsense that sounds plausible
From 1 comment
As is often true of GPT responses, there's some nonsense interspersed here, e.g. the claim that R has "a more mature package universe" than Python. I think this is false, but if…
setgree on HN
Requests
Writeup on specializing an LLM with HN data
From 1 comment
Am I correct in understanding that this doesn't actually generate answers based on HN, but instead finds semantically-near comments and sends them verbatim to GPT to summarize?…
georgelyon on HN
Clarify cost of embedding comments
From 1 comment
I like the project. Had been wanting to do this myself for a long time, because HN has become the first place I go to nowadays for answers, and I value the intelligence and…
leobg on HN
Questions
Is user data opted out of use
From 1 comment
Is there a way to opt out of one's comments being used for this?
egypturnash on HN
Is this fine-tuned or standard GPT-3 API
From 2 comments
Just to be sure: This is NOT a finetuned GTP model, but rather standard GPT-3 API, used to summarize search results of a HN Comments DB, based on user input. Right?
underlines on HNMy own experiments made me think that the impact of finetuning is comparable to that of a molecule in a drop in a bucket. > “AskHN” is a GPT-3 bot I trained on a corpus of over…
btbuildem on HN
Who pays the API costs
From 1 comment
Seeing a ton of projects utilizing chatgpt nowadays. Are the project owners basically paying the API costs out of pocket ? Think it would add up pretty quick especially if front…
jaequery on HN
Alternatives named
Algolia HN search
From 1 comment
This is nice! The official algolia search is useless. Otoh, did I miss something or is it only on discord?
dalmo3 on HN
Appending reddit or hackernews to Google searches
From 1 comment
I love this! I used to append "reddit" to my Google search queries to get best results, but the quality of dialog over there has really dropped in recent years. These days I've…
MikeTheRocker on HN