YakGPT
AI
chatbot frontend
SHOW HN2023
How HN took it
19 positive, 26 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 11 critical, out of 60 comments about the project. Thread score +0.16.
Idea: 5 for, 1 againstDesign: 3 for, 2 againstDocs: 2 for, 3 againstExecution: 1 for, 2 againstPerformance: 2 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fast and accurate speech-to-text
From 2 comments
BRO. Your transcription is SO fast. I've hacked at a similar project passing to the Whisper API and honestly I was already blown away with its speed an accuracy (as was anyone I…
computershit on HNCool! I tried out the speech to text and it was instant and accurate, i had no idea whisper was that good. Do you know their privacy for our voices? Do they train on it, hear it,…
user- on HN
Clean, responsive design
From 2 comments
I absolutely love this! The UI is nice and responsive and this is the first chatGPT UI that has voice recognition that works outside of chrome! I kind of want to throw this up on…
Karunamon on HNThis is very well made and designed. I will likely use this instead of the actual Chatgpt UI since their API is a lot cheaper than the 20$/month pricing for my usage amount.…
chenxi9649 on HN
Cheaper than paid ChatGPT subscription for API usage
From 1 comment
This is very well made and designed. I will likely use this instead of the actual Chatgpt UI since their API is a lot cheaper than the 20$/month pricing for my usage amount.…
chenxi9649 on HN
Objections
'Run locally' wording is misleading since calls go to OpenAI
From 3 comments
> Run locally on browser – no need to install any applications That's not what "run locally" means. This isn't any more "local" than talking to chatgpt directly, which is never…
teawrecks on HNIn that case you're basically offering a browser-based client. 'Locally' strongly suggests this is running entirely on the machine (vs. making API calls). Going to break a lot of…
NBJack on HN> Run locally on browser – no need to install any applications This seems to be a contradiction. Am I running it locally, or is it running on someone else's server?
yosito on HN
Asking users to enter an API key on a website is a security risk
From 2 comments
It's pretty bad to ask people to enter e private secret key in a web site (any, I mean)
oriettaxx on HN> Run locally on browser – no need to install any applications > Please enter your OpenAI key ... Do people just not get it? I would in fact rather give all my company secrets to…
meghan_rain on HN
Build fails due to Google Fonts dependency
From 2 comments
It wasn't so smooth for me. I gave up at Creating an optimized production build ...TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'useRef')
xupybd on HNOh, my install failed at: ``` Failed to compile. pages/index.tsx `next/font` error: Failed to fetch `Inter` from Google Fonts. > Build failed because of webpack errors ```…
johnchristopher on HN
Requests
Text-to-speech output
From 2 comments
Love the idea of prompt dictation. Taking that idea a step further, would it possible to have a feature where ChatGPT responses are spoken back to the user?
asow92 on HNThis is fast. And talking to it is a nice touch. Consider adding text to speech too :) One feature I am missing from all these front ends is the ability to edit your text and…
smusamashah on HN
Editable conversation history with branching
From 2 comments
In official UI the chat history is like a tree. If you edit a message, it branches off the conversation from that point. You can always go back to any message in the tree and see…
smusamashah on HNIn official UI, if you edit a message and get a new response, you can still always go back to any of your previous messages and continue from there on. Basically the history is…
smusamashah on HN
Screenshots in README
From 2 comments
could you please add some screenshots of how it looks
jerrygoyal on HNTesting YakGPT right now, excellent work! I would recommend adding some screenshots to the GitHub README so that people can get an idea of how it looks before entering their API…
connorgutman on HN
Custom prompts and personas
From 2 comments
Editing the prompts (which are currently submitted via the system message similar to your linked app) is a great idea. I'll add it to the to-do list :)
kami8845 on HNI've been playing around with your Idea Generator persona for the last 15 minutes and have been absolutely blown away. Excellent prompt engineering. As mentioned by others, it…
fudged71 on HN
Hosted server with authentication
From 2 comments
I absolutely love this! The UI is nice and responsive and this is the first chatGPT UI that has voice recognition that works outside of chrome! I kind of want to throw this up on…
Karunamon on HNThe only thing I'd suggest to consider to add is some sort of authentication. If I deploy this on a server so I could reach it with my mobile, on the go, and it has my API…
illuminated on HN
Questions
How does pricing compare to ChatGPT Plus?
From 2 comments
I’d love to see a comparison of the average cost to use this with the OpenAI API versus subscribing to chat-gpt plus. Maybe I’ll have to try this for a month and see if it end up…
agotterer on HNGPT-3.5 is really cheap (prompt and completion = $0.002 / 1K tokens), but GPT-4 is around 20 times more expensive (prompt = $0.03 / 1K tokens + completion = $0.06 / 1K tokens).…
qwertox on HN
How is the audio privacy handled by Whisper?
From 1 comment
Cool! I tried out the speech to text and it was instant and accurate, i had no idea whisper was that good. Do you know their privacy for our voices? Do they train on it, hear it,…
user- on HN
How does it compare to Vocode?
From 1 comment
Given that Vocode (realtime audio, llm, etc) came out a few days ago, could you speak to how yours compares to it? https://github.com/vocodedev/vocode-python
throwaway675309 on HN
Alternatives named
chat-with-gpt
From 1 comment
Chat-with-gpt has that, we use it in our org as an alternative chatgpt Interface: https://github.com/cogentapps/chat-with-gpt
danielbln on HN
bettergpt.chat
From 1 comment
Looks cool! Are you planning on adding more customization to be able to influence the AI? See https://bettergpt.chat/ (it's also open source and uses API in the browser).…
Tiberium on HN
ChatPad
From 1 comment
Very cool. I use a custom local UI as well, based on a fork of a similar project called ChatPad (https://github.com/deiucanta/chatpad). That also uses Mantine UI, and lets you…
ilovepuppies on HN
Vocode
From 1 comment
Given that Vocode (realtime audio, llm, etc) came out a few days ago, could you speak to how yours compares to it? https://github.com/vocodedev/vocode-python
throwaway675309 on HN