Ask HN: What prompts to chatbots surprised you with quality of output?
Did you give the chatbot a prompt that impressed you with output? What kinds of things do chatbots do for you that you think others don't know they can do?
As an example, I'll ask something like "when exactly does a cheap thing become expensive?", and it will point me to the Sorites paradox and imprecise predicates.
Close 2nd: Gemini; best for research, but you have to check everything it does like it's an intern on day one... the "Deep Research" available when logged in is much more reliable, but slow
3rd: ChatGPT; it really is the most hit or miss to me and feels generic and often misleads me to a dead end... but has awesome voice chat
4th: Mistral; useful for a non-US perspective
5th: Perplexity; helpful for lightly looking into something
6th: Copilot; wow, such fail