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Comment by duringmath | Hacker News Reader

Bard is only a week old and has a large "experimental" sticker on it. Besides its UI is better and the answers are succinct which I prefer.

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They literally copied the Chatgpt UI, lol, only it looks like a dated Google UI. How do you prefer answers with less data?... that's crazy.

I just don't want to be hit with a wall of text every single time, it gets the point across with minimal padding (high signal to noise ratio), ChatGPT feels like it gets paid by the word and they do actually charge by token if you use the API.

As for the UI it's a take on the tried and true chat UI same as ChatGPT's, it spits the whole answer at once instead of feeding it to you one word at a time, it has an alternative drafts button, the Google it button is a nice touch and it feels quicker.

You can combat that in the prompt, I use "just code, no words" which will also remove code comments from output. Bard doesn't respect the same request. You can be more succinct with chatgpt. Half the things I ask for in Bard give me this:

"I'm still learning coding skills, so at the moment I can't help with this. I'm trained to do things like help you write lists about different topics, compare things, or build travel itineraries. Do you want to try any of those now?"

Longer instructions? Which part of "less is more" do you not understand?

What part of succinct do you not understand? Bard provides a bunch of useless text too, only you can't get rid of it. No worries, you don't know how to use chatgpt, have fun with Bard until Google cancels it.

doing a visual diff will show you it's not a literal copy

I'm talking design, not code, lol...

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