What do you use AI/LLMs for in your personal life?

The only thing I've found them actually useful for is generating random lists for my D&D games.

When it comes down to needing some mundane descriptions, its great having an LLM brainstorm for you. "Give me 10 examples of weird things I might see in jars in a witch's hut." This works well because you can just cut the 5 you don't like and use the other 5 to brainstorm your final list.

I feed it TOS, Service Agreements, etc and have it simplify and summarize them so i can have a general idea of what is in them without 10 minutes of reading.

Brainstorming ideas; it's something to bounce ideas off and see what can be tweaked.

Single-player D&D. Can setup multiple players/characters and a DM and just play D&D by myself, which is rad.

Having conversations with fictional characters. Like Data from Star Trek.

Among other things: Cooking. They're really helpful in those situations where I have a bunch of ingredients lying around in my pantry but I lack concrete recipes that can make a proper meal out of them.

None. I avoid them when ever possible which thus far is most of the time.

Messing with a win11 laptop recently, I asked copilot how to disable copilot. After a couple of tries it told me.

That's about it.

I mostly just use them to help write Python scripts.

Absolutely nothing, because they all give fucking useless results. Hallucinates, is confidently wrong, and isn't even grammatically competent (depending on the model). Not even good for a draft, because I'd have to completely rewrite it anyway.

LLMs are only as good as the guys training it (who are mostly morons), and the raw data they train on (which is mostly unaudited random shit).

And that's just regular language. Coding? Hah!

Me: Generate some code to [do a thing].
LLM: [Gives me code]
Me: [Some part] didnt work.
LLM: Try [this] instead.
Me: That didn't work either.
LLM: Try [the first thing] again.
Me: ... that still doesn't work...
LLM: Oh, sorry. Try [the second thing again].
Me: ...

Loop continues forever.

One time I found out about a built-in function that I didn't know about (in LLM generated code that didn't work), and read the manual for it, and rewrote the code from scratch to get it working. Literally the only useful thing it ever gave me was a single word (that it probably found on Superuser or StackExchange in the first place).

I used openAI/whisper to transcribe several thousand .wav files full of human speech (running locally). Much faster than trying to listen to them myself. It wasn't perfect but the error rate was within acceptable levels.

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Instead of reading a manual file for the badrillionth time, I ask it how a shell command should be formated. If it is easy, it gets it right away and I say "oh, yea, that's right". If it is hard, I still get a starting point and can correct it fairly quickly. I ask it for translations when learning a new language, which I've been doing lately. This it excel at. Even languages that conventional machine translation fails at. I asked chatgpt for Minecraft blocks with some specific set of desirable redstone properties that I didn't want to dig through a wiki to find. This one had varying success. It is not aware of every odd redstone secret, but it can spit out something useful if you are lucky. I had a quick poem made for one of my rp characters. We had a 5 minute break and I wanted something that made sense for the next scene. Some quick directions to the LLM and a little shoveling paragraphs around and there you go.

I also have tried some light rp with the ai for entertainment. I tried merging harry potter and star trek once. It was mildly entertaining.

If you know how they are dumb and where they kinda work, you can get stuff done. Especially if the answers are easily verifiable. That about summs up how I use them.

Nothing. Remember that bartender from the original Star Wars?

I use Chatgpt 3.5 both personally and at work for tip of the tongue questions, especially when I can't think of a word. Sometimes as a starting point when I have trouble finding the answer to a question in Google. It can sometimes find an old movie that I vaguely remember based on my very poor descriptions too.

For example: "what is the word for a sample of a species which is used to define the species" - tip of the tongue, holotype. "What is the block size for LTO-9 tape" - wasn't getting a clear answer from forums and IBM documentation is kind of behind a wall, needed Chatgpt to realize there was no single block size for tape.

It's excellent for difficult to search things that can be quickly verified once you have an answer (important step, as it will give you garbage rather than say it doesn't know something).

Friend, code, search engine, writing, cooking ideas, sexy time, exploring psychology, therapist, etc.

I occasionally use LLMs to generate a set of characters for a TTRPG, if I don't have the time to prepare and/or know we'll play a very limited scenario in terms of who my PCs are able to meet. This is especially true for oneshots where I just don't want to put too much work in.

I recently built a scenario for a cthulhu themed scenario, that was set in a 1920s Louisiana prison and planned for two to three sessions. I just had an LLM do a list of all the prisoners and guards on the PCs block, with a few notes on the NPCs look and character. This drastically reduced the time I had to put in preparing the scenario.

Homework for my 7yo: Please, write a short story, around 300 words. I want a prince named Anna on it, and a unicorn, a castle and a treasure must be mentioned too. At the end, write for questions related to the tale.

Nothing. Never used.

I use Gemini often for writing thank you notes.

Maybe unethical, but I have mine participate in Twitch chats to see if it passes as human and surprisingly it does. People ask it questions and it randomly responds to users with either agreeable or disagreeable responses.

Nothing because it sucks and isn't worth the effort if you have an Internet connection and any knowledge on how to use a search engine.

I used ChatGPT this morning to create a Firefox extension for my favorite website (to allow me to speed up audio playback as desired.) just a few minutes’ back-and-forth and it works perfectly. If you’ve got a favorite site with a UI that you r always wanted slightly tweaked, you could try making a browser extension to do that!

I use Google Translate and DeepL almost every workday for translation stuff.

ChatGPT I use rarely. When I have trouble wording something, I does provide a good starting point though. For example I had to write a birthday card for a business relationship and it helped me greatly with that.

No need for generation so far. No pics, videos in my line of work and coding it always just produced garbage for me. I'm faster on my own and the usual googling. Is that a GPT 3.5 issue? I don't have a paid plan.

Sometimes I have it re-write emails for me if I feel like my tone is off. Once in a blue moon I'll use an LLM to write a trivial AHK script. I also use AI art bots for throwaway character art for NPCs in my D&D campaign.

Beyond that, almost never.

if I wanted access to a constant stream of confidently-stated misinformation I would simply open Reddit

I have a GUI to interface with locally-run image generators that I sometimes use when I need art for D&D.

I use it to consume huge quantities of energy because I despise the human race and life on earth.

Playtesting ttrpg campaigns, mostly. Can be more helpful than just playing it through solo, but LLMs tend to be really fucking uncreative.

There's not really any use for them. There are really no tasks they can help a normal person with in their everyday. I guess you could talk to it like it's a person, but that's sad, and is probably unhealthy, and you should probs just talk to a real person instead.

Now if you do some specialized tasks, like programming, but aren't very good, I guess I can see some use for them.

I'm having trouble seeing any uses for them beyond those though.

I find the state of the art models are finally getting good enough they are wonderful for rubber ducking abstract ideas.

Also code generation.

I use LLMs all the time for work and hobbies, but my work and hobbies are well suited for LLM assistance.

Writing boilerplate documents. I do this for work. I hate it. LLMs are very good at it.

Writing boilerplate code. I do not like writing docstrings, making my code more maintainable, enforcing argument types, etc. I do a lot of research code and I need to spend my time testing and debuging. I can feed my spaghetti into an LLM and it will finish out all the boilerplate for me.

I use it all the time to help simplify long excerpts, giving me an introductory gist of what something says.

Inspiration. Specially when they hallucinate crazy stuff, it makes for good paintings.

I've been using one to write cover letters for job applications. It takes a bit of wrangling to get anything, and then a bit more to get it to actually say things that aren't total bullshit, but I find it less tedious than writing them myself.

The only use I have for AIs is to translate from my mother tongue into English, to chat online. I could write directly in English, but it hasn't been worth it for a few years.

Lots of stuff but primarily code generation, code explanation, comment generation, and simplification of technical medical documents to plain English.

I know this is a work example, but it's pretty good at writing Excel formulas. Helpful because my brain works in Python, not spreadsheet.

Also, when I have a word on the tip of my tongue (I know someone said this already), beyond helping me get the word it can help me out context around how it is used.

I use GPT 4 for checking Physics Problems quickly. It's much better than education forums nowadays where you have to sign up and probably pay a subscription to be able to view questions

I would love a local one to use for the same things as CharGpt only I want to control the knowledge training dataset so only quality data is in it.

I do not have the resources or knowledge to pull this off but it would be really nice to not worry about garbage-in-garbage-out.

Coding.

The other day I needed to set up a node service with an HTML front-end that allows me to upload files from a browser that end up on my machine hosted in a docker container. Something like this would take me the better part of a day to complete. Through a series of prompts I got what I needed deployed in less than an hour.

Then unit tests. Sometimes all I need is good code coverage and since it's just tests you can verify the quality of the generated code if it runs and covers the lines you want. I've saved a ton of hours of tedious code coverage work this way.

I use bing chat/copilot to help me with writing powershell scrpts

Sometimes I ask it for music recommendations.

But mostly I tend to just use it like a fancy thesaurus when I'm low on mental energy.

Literally the only time I've used one, I was upset about something and just wanted somebody to talk to. Sooo I vented to chat gpt. ¯⁠\⁠(⁠°⁠_⁠o⁠)⁠/⁠¯

It felt sorta like talking to a therapist, except its tone was very formal/polite and every once in a while it asked you to choose between two different responses (for training or whatever), which would be pretty strange for a human to do.

I use it a lot for random memes and shit, like rewriting All Stars to be about hot dogs.

I also use it to edit my creative writing, mostly just tone and grammar

I've had pretty good luck getting cocktail recipes out of chatgpt. They sometimes need a little tweaking but it hasn't steered me horribly wrong yet.

I'm also going to be officiating a wedding for a friend in a few months, so I've been using it to work out what I want to say for the ceremony.

I have a coworker who's been taking some college classes. He struggles a bit with writing papers, he knows all the material just doesn't quite know how to get started putting things down on paper. I told him to give it a try, with some strong warnings to rewrite and fact-check everything it spits out, and so far it's been working out great for him and he's been heeding my warnings, he pretty much punches in some prompts and bullet points and then goes through and rewords everything it spits out and fact-checks it as he goes.

Helping me break down annoyingly long/poorly formatted code segments so I can think more clearly about how to troubleshoot them.

Generating meal plan ideas (I generally do my own thing but having it pick out proteins for any given day of the week helps me to mix things up)

Assisting me as a GM in games for the reasons other people have already mentioned. I also have my hands on a module that lets an LLM pose as an NPC and give dialogue when spoken to that is absolutely fantastic when my players want to talk to some random NPC I don't give a shit about.

Those are the biggest and most every day things.

I use it as my travel agent. It planned my trip to one of a big US cities (did a really good job) and to advise me what I should know as a European driver driving on American roads for the first time.

Edit: Also, Claude by Anthropic is great at re-writing passages of generic text in the style of Donald Trump.

Well, I've tried using it for the following:

• Asking questions and looking up information in my job's internal knowledgebase, using a specially designed LLM trained specifically on our public and internal knowledgebase. It repeatedly gave me confidently incorrect answers and linked nonexistent articles.

• Deducing a bit of Morse code that didn't have any spaces in it, creating an ambiguous word. I figured it could iterate through the possible solutions easily enough, saving me the time of doing it myself. I gave up in frustration after it repeatedly gave answers that were incorrect from the very first letter.

If I ever get serious about looking for a new job, I'll probably try and have it type up the first draft of a cover letter for me. With my luck, it'll probably claim I was a combat veteran or some shit even though I'm a fat 40-something who's never even talked with a recruitment officer in their life.

Oh, funny story--some of my coworkers at the job got the brilliant idea to use the company LLM to write responses to users for them. Needless to say, the users were NOT pleased to get messages signed "Company ChatGPT LLM." Management put their foot down immediately that doing it was a fireable offense and made it clear that we tracked every request sent to our chatbot.

I don't.

And it's not really useful for work either, but that's not stopping my employer from blowing tons of money trying to shoehorn it into everything.

It's pretty nifty for software development.

It also comes in clutch when I have a word on the tip of my tongue, and a Google search isn't taking into account the nuances you know that this word has. It might take some follow-up, like "that's close, but the word I'm thinking of has negative connotations, and I know that it's used in [INSERT CONTEXT]"

I use ChatGPT to tell me how to pronounce obscure words.

You can use it for anything that requires a little logical multi step thought (anything single fact based is a straight web search with your search engine of choice)

For example,

• Rewrite your CV.
• reply to a letter
• write some code for a particular task.
• debug your computer problem.
• form a legal analysis to a situation ( https://www.legalcheek.com/2024/09/over-40-of-lawyers-now-use-ai-to-accelerate-their-work/ )
• have a conversation about a topic to help you understand yourself or a thing better. ("How do I build a ceph storage cluster in Kubernetes on Talos Linux with a raspberry pi, a mini pc .."). Then you can ask about alternatives solutions or whatever.
• come up with a business idea and talk it through with some'one'. Pricing etc.
• summaries of text.

At the moment they don't always spit out correct answers to factual questions; they'd rather give crap than say they don't know (without anthropomorphisising). When I asked Claude for equivalent sections in another jurisdictions legislation I got crap back on several occasions rather than the correct answer, but the false 'facts' were easy to check. However, the analysis was correct. ChatGPT gave the correct answer (to the original question). And I've had it the other way around too. So for the moment, pair them with Google or something similar for any fact output requested.

They're excellent tools for analysing situations and providing feedback. The code it writes is pretty good.

Hopefully they never get trained on social media.

Help me make fancy html for my personal website lol 😂

I use GitHub Copilot as code completion tool

I use it for a jumping off point creating an itinerary for trips. Asking to create a 3 day itinerary with a mix of recommended restaurants, bars and cafes in between has been really helpful. The google maps links usually don't work but you need to confirm the places still exist anyway, and adjust as needed.

Drop-in replacement for stack overflow, letting ChatGPT modify my RCode to do simple things, rephrasing text and extracting equations from PDFs as Latex code. I also used Stable Diffusion to make some absurd Christmas cards last year.