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omarfarooq··on How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen
Would it be possible to use prompting to change aspects of the voice output? Will the voice respond angrily if you ask to act an angry character in a play?
omarfarooq··on A forged Apple employee badge
That's based on verifiable cryptography.
omarfarooq··on GPT-4o
Isn't it at their cost if they're subsidizing it?
omarfarooq··on Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years
Gleap does this: https://www.gleap.io/in-app-bug-reporting
omarfarooq··on Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]
His TSLA shares are quite liquid.
omarfarooq··on Confirmation of ancient lake on Mars
Prospect of life tease in the headline and intro required to draw in the reader.
omarfarooq··on The $500M Dollar Typo
I think it's more to do with the resilience of the cockroach.
omarfarooq··on The $500M Dollar Typo
I read that part, the language of the article makes it seem like they had to actively debit everyone that was overpaid to get the money back. Underpaying them on the next pay period wouldn't require any debits to the bank accounts where the money ended up ("take it all back"). Article doesn't have really have specifics to the solution. Rather what I mean is it's not clear what "take it all back" means: is that referring to direct debits to where the money ended up in, or is that referring to adjusting what goes out in the next pay periods?
omarfarooq··on The $500M Dollar Typo
Guess it was too difficult to just adjust the pay amount (with a deduction) for the next pay period?
omarfarooq··on Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays?
Definitely, how should I reach out to you?
omarfarooq··on Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays?
Would you know happen to know any persons or businesses seeking UX/UI work on contract? I would be very grateful to be put in touch with someone looking for this service, and have work I can show. Thank you :)
omarfarooq··on Binance and CEO admit financial crimes, billions coughed up to US govt
The very origin of funds being from a mixer taints it.
omarfarooq··on Ask HN: I've spent $1M+ building a fitness app. Now what?
I appreciate the depthful reply. My quote was based on a cursory glance, I'm sure there is much more involved with a detailed spec sheet, as you pointed out.

Seems like you have the product figured out and just need to focus iterating on marketing. I'm actually in a similar position to you but having spent $400K instead of $1M.

I'd like to ask you, what were some factors that propelled you to self rationalize your method of going to market, that in hindsight turned out to be detrimental? Or in other words, what would you do if you were to go back in time and start over? Look, I know that's a painful question to answer since we can't turn back time, but I am asking it for the sake of educating others and for the potential benefits that stem from self reflection.

Appreciate your opening up on this. Thank you.

omarfarooq··on Ask HN: I've spent $1M+ building a fitness app. Now what?
What is the break down of how that $1M was spent? No offense intended to you, but I'd have quoted $50K for the build out of the iOS app and the Watch companion app.

Curious how you spent that money?

omarfarooq··on Show HN: Neum AI – Open-source large-scale RAG framework
Have you guys connected with MemGPT?
omarfarooq··on Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
Precisely why this was all announced into the early morning hours of Monday.
omarfarooq··on Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
The exodus of personnel behind him.
omarfarooq··on Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
Friday was a year ago.
omarfarooq··on Sam Altman Will Not Return to OpenAI as CEO
Non-competes are not enforceable in California.
omarfarooq··on Show HN: Watermelon – copilot for code review
Difference between "copilot" and "Copilot".
omarfarooq··on Truth Social reports $73M net loss since launch
Every one in the 'value' chain at the organization is going to seek to maximally extract funds from it since management from the apex down has no competence to know proper budget and planning on a software product.
omarfarooq··on GPTs: Custom versions of ChatGPT
Maybe it means GPT5 is only 2 quarters away?
omarfarooq··on GPTs: Custom versions of ChatGPT
Not all wrappers are created equal.
omarfarooq··on GPTs: Custom versions of ChatGPT
Are you sure? Both of those went live at 1 PM PST.
omarfarooq··on Telling GPT-4 you're scared or under pressure improves performance
It removes the idiosyncrasies and delivers the stated thoughts in a direct and clear manner. And the specific prompt for the message you replied to also includes a rebuttal, thereby showing an opposing perspective.

Here is a pastebin: https://pastebin.com/DCqgxx8E

omarfarooq··on Telling GPT-4 you're scared or under pressure improves performance
ChatGPT responds: https://chat.openai.com/c/7c4ae31a-3391-4496-8db3-a92a58a4e1...
omarfarooq··on Telling GPT-4 you're scared or under pressure improves performance
ChatGPT explains what this text means to those of us may not readily grasp it: https://chat.openai.com/share/ce79b704-705c-4add-92af-584c20...
omarfarooq··on Justine Bateman's Fight Against Generative AI in Hollywood
There will still be substantial effort required on the part of humans to deliver compelling films using AI.
omarfarooq··on Write PHP Code Within Next.js Components
All these haters of Javascript, you'd think no one actually uses it.
omarfarooq··on Justine Bateman's Fight Against Generative AI in Hollywood
> Even if it got so good I couldn't tell if it was real or Memorex.

Reminds me of a dinner I had with my wife where she ate fried calamari for the first time. I told her it's salmon and she said she loved it. She hated it after I told her it's actually squid.

Of course she didn't turn back time and replace her delight with disgust at point of contact.

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