• Alex Standiford

    Today so many of my messages with Claude resulted in it saying “would you like me to do x?”

    To which I respond with “yes, please do x”

    Then it gives me a bullet point list of things it will do, and says “would you like me to do x?”

    Repeatedly, and now I hit my Claude limit from wasted messages. Annoying.

  • Alex Standiford

    This prompt yielded some really solid copy for Novatorius’ About Page:

    The attached document is a conversation I had with ChatGPT about Novatorius’ website. In this, we talk a little bit about how to create the about page for Novatorius.

    Some rules:

    You must not refer to this as “mine” or “I”. This is is a “we” and “us” thing. This is a business I run, but it’s not “me”.

    This should use the golden circle (Why, How, What)

    It should keep the nautical themes minimal. It’s tempting to use them but I think in this context it’ll be tacky.

    Avoid saying “status quo”

    I really want you focus heavily on what we believe. This page should capture the “about us” mostly through those beliefs. Nearly everything in this page should talk about beliefs, tenants, and values.

    I do not want you to mention anything that even remotely suggests what we do. That is not the purpose of this page. This should be all about encapsulating the spirit of what Novatorius is.

  • Alex Standiford

    Settling into a routine.

    Use ChatGPT to have a conversation and get the stuff out of my head.

    Use Claude to discuss that discussion, disseminate key details, and extract what I need from it.

  • Alex Standiford

    Loving Claude’s “Projects” feature.

  • Alex Standiford

    One thing I really like about Claude is that it extracts long responses as documents. Makes it a lot easier to extract key things from the conversation.

  • Alex Standiford

    The most powerful AI prompt I have in my arsenal:

    “I want you to interview me, asking one question at a time about {thing}. I have the information about {thing}in my head, but need your help extracting and organizing it.”

    Then, after all questions are asked, I ask Chat to put it into a report.

    It’s such a powerful way to get info out of your head, and you can do it with voice chat while walking.

  • Alex Standiford

    Today I learned that there’s a whisper-based transcription plugin for Audacity. This is great! No longer need to use the command line when transcribing my audio.

  • Alex Standiford

    One of my favorite prompts:

    “Talk me out of x”

    Make ChatGPT try to talk you out of something.

  • How I’m Approaching Siren’s Support

    How I’m Approaching Siren’s Support

    This post explores how I’m tackling the support system around Siren, and how I think it’s going to stand out as top-tier support.

  • Alex Standiford

    Holy crap, GPT-4o is WAY faster than GPT-4.