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If I'm bored I like to have it explain things in various ways. E.g

• Explain ____ in the style of Douglas Adams
• ... without using the letter T
• ... in cyberpunk style but Elizabethan English
• ... as if it were an episode of Family Fued

With PiHole, you can block it from your network. That's pretty cool.

My favorite use was to create a Discord bot where you could say any card title for a made-up MtG Card, and it generates the card for you, using DALL-E for the card image.

For example, here's one of my personal favorites using the input "Barney the Dinosaur":

With the right prompt GPT4 can make a decent DM if you want to play a solo story of DnD. I tried this quite a while ago and it was pretty good, probably better now with the bigger context window.

It can also be useful for suggesting recipes based on what you have on hand or what you feel like eating.

Use it to have low risk conversations to trick your brain into getting extroverted energy

Ignore it.

A friend at work had it rewrite the lyrics of Apple Bottom Jeans in the style of Soviet propaganda. One of the lines came out to “shawty is a true socialist hero”. Having it rewrite lyrics in an incongruous style never gets old.

Its a pretty good teacher because you can ask the same question over and over until you understand.

I use it to get ideas and run numbers for my homebrew Pathfinder campaign. That and midjouney and I feel like a real GM.

ChatGPT is good in writing regex

I use it to make alternative reality art.

Shit like that. Weird crossovers. Very specific memes that only apply to a single person just to fuck with em.

Whenever I'm doing public speaking, I just load my speech into it to rewrite with a specific fog index to make sure everything comes across in an easily digestible format. Similarly, for things that are too dense for me to understand from subjects I'm not well versed in, I'll load those lectures into it to make it understandable for me.

I let it rate my day in hundreds and propose some ideas for making it better

It's great for writing simple scripts, if you know what you want you can get it to give you a pretty good base, save starting from scratch

I also kinda want to make "sentient" chess where you have to talk the pieces into moving where you want them and they resist sacrificing themselves

You can give it a website layout made in ms paint and it'll try to turn it into html and css

I use it for soooo many things:

• help with learning a new programming framework/language
• questions about basic home repair and issue prevention
• when I feel anxious or vaguely depressed but can't put my finger on exactly why or what's causing it, it's a great sounding board
• nutrition questions about specific foods or meals
• things to add to a simple meal to make it more interesting / complete
• weighing pros and cons for an important decision, getting ideas I may have not thought of
• conducting a mock interview for me when I give it a job description and my resume
• random *nix commandline recipes where I don't want to spend 10 minutes googling and inevitably landing on SEO garbage blogs and just need a quick snippet
• running AI art contests on Lemmy... 😆 https://lemmy.world/post/8173373

I use it to summarize city council meetings so I don't have to sit through 3 hours of people talking in circles

It's pretty good at writing limericks and poems.

It's great to use for troubleshooting Linux. It usually gives you the commands to paste into command line. It saves you from going to forums where people expect you to have advanced baseline knowledge already.

I'm a fan of the SCP Foundation, and sometimes when I'm bored I'll go to ChatGPT and tell it "Please write an SCP entry for an anomalous \ that does ." If the resulting SCP entry is interesting I will "explore" it by asking "Write an exploration log in which an MTF team climbs down the giant toilet bowl" or "Write an interview log with the woman who turned into a snail." And so forth.

I'll have it explain complicated topics using familiar frameworks. As an example, I had it run through various superheroes and villains and match them up with appropriate philosophers. This conversation was how I settled on the idea that Lex Luthor has a lot more in common with Ayn Rand than Friedrich Nietzsche.

Homework.

Have intellectual conversations.

Any time I am cursed with a blank page it can give me something to fix instead of pulling fully formed thoughts out of my head. Personal favorite is work reviews. Brain dump my goals and accomplishments and have it format it up then edit for accuracy and tone.