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Amanda Jeanne's avatar

I’ve so loved using ChatGPT the last few years, for exactly these reasons. I’m in the midst of a potential switch to Claude and the jury’s still out if it’s going to be up to the job.

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Dave Conrey's avatar

I don’t have much experience with Claude, but what I do know about it is that it’s great for deep research topics, potentially even more so than ChatGPT in some circumstances. But it doesn’t have the same adaptability for more casual conversations or topics that require creative nuance like ChatGPT does.

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Amanda Jeanne's avatar

Oh lord never mind I’m back on the ChatGPT. I need my LLM to remember me.

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Dave Conrey's avatar

It’s memory can be selective sometimes because it can in,y store so much, and will drop off anything that doesn’t seem relevant or hasn’t been mentioned in a while, but mine can definitely remember most of what in doing.

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Paula's avatar

Well, that's a use of AI that I can definitely get behind of! As someone who's super critical of AI it's refreshing to see people actually using it as a tool to make their life easier and not as something to replace artists or avoid thinking themselves.

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Dave Conrey's avatar

That’s my entire goal behind this publication. Let’s use these tools in ethical ways to improve our lives and take the things we struggle with or don’t enjoy off plate so we can get back to our creative work.

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Jen Mayer | Makeist's avatar

Do you start a new chat for each new prompt or topic in ChatGPT? Does it cross-reference/remember other chats as reference to carry through your preferences and voice?

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Dave Conrey's avatar

This is a great question and one I’ll definitely follow up on in depth soon because it’s a complex answer. The short answer is that I believe it’s important to establish memories within the app, but that requires the paid version of it. If you want to stick with the free version, I highly recommend creating a swipe file that has key information about the different topics that you might want to speak about.

That swipe file would contain bits about the nature of your work, the nature of any projects that you’re working on, or specific ones that you want to address, and then any nuanced details that you want to be consistent whenever you create an AI query. So you copy and paste that into every New chat you want so that it has a context.

Also, another approach is to create project folders within the app, and then inside that project folder you can add the swipe file details and it will apply that idea to any of the chats that you create within that project folder

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