YHK - yet another hacker news clone

85 points smokel 2 hours ago 22 comments

Here's hoping that it will return soon, as I really liked it.

brumar 1 hour ago | parent

After all, this "mode" was just a system prompt (last time I looked).

tomrod 1 hour ago | parent

Can it be replicated by a user?

shlewis 1 hour ago | parent

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xeb/TheBigPromptLibrary/r...

I think this is pretty much the entirety of study mode. Never used it before but as long as there's no UI changes, yes, it's 100% replicable.

box2 1 hour ago | parent

There used to be a “Custom GPT” feature which basically just creates a prompt wrapper with some extra functionality like being able to call web APIs for more data. Can’t seem to find that menu right now, but it would have easily replicated the study feature. Maybe it was limited to paid accounts only.

alexthehurst 58 minutes ago | parent

It’s still there, but the builder is only in the web UI.

AmmarSaleh50 56 minutes ago | parent

Yeah custom gpts are only for paid users. However u can create a new project under "Projects", name it, then when u create it, you can see on the top right the three dots button, click it, open project settings, and there u can place your system prompt under instructions. Every chat you start in that project would send those instructions as a system prompt to the model you are chatting with. so essentially "Study Mode" could be recreated with this approach, or at least it should.

janpmz 1 hour ago | parent

I was concerned about big players offering the same functionality when building listendock.com, but maybe there is a place for specialized apps like that.

el_io 1 hour ago | parent

Haven't use 'Study Mode' in OpenAI, but can't you just ask it to act as a study coach or whatever you want it to be?

altmanaltman 1 hour ago | parent

I remember videos with titles like "OPENAI CHANGED STUDYING COMPLETELY WITH THIS ONE SUPER UPDATE!" and obnoxious thumbnails on youtube when it was first launched. I guess studying changed it.

danielbln 1 hour ago | parent

You have these grifter videos for everything, from OpenAI features to hot takes on the strait of Hormuz. These are best ignored entirely.

altmanaltman 1 hour ago | parent

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44725764

Also discussed on HN. Yeah I can ignore them, but a lot of people watch those videos and fall for the grift (going by their views) and that's sad. It personally annoys me also when yt recommends them to me because it thinks I'm interested in software

ziml77 46 minutes ago | parent

I make sure to hit not interested the second I see anything I very much don't want pop up in me feed. I don't want mine to drift towards the average feed of the lowest effort, sensationalist garbage.

newswasboring 38 minutes ago | parent

Does this work? I've been doing that for some weeks now, nothing has changed about my home page.

ddtaylor 20 minutes ago | parent

Use DeArrow, it allows you to avoid most of that clickbait farming.

CatDeveloper_ 1 hour ago | parent

they do it with other stuff to i feel like they see how much users actually interact with those features and base their decsisoins kinda like how google owuld remove some features at random..

foundermodus 1 hour ago | parent

What was the Study Mode? I never saw it.

ok123456 56 minutes ago | parent

Gemini still has its study mode.

jegudiel 52 minutes ago | parent

I used to enjoy studying with ChatGPT too. I was on their Plus plan.

m-hodges 40 minutes ago | parent

I tried it a few times and always found it disappointing. It typically started off like a structured "lesson" but as I chatted with it, it would forget the syllabus is had proposed and we never "completed" the thing we set out to learn.

utopiah 20 minutes ago | parent

Before this Sora, and before that large government contracts. I don't think they care so much for the random consumer anymore. They use anything and everyone for PR but they get closer to IPO they are focusing what actually might make them profitable.

TL;DR: bet on stuff being removed

shivang2607 7 minutes ago | parent

Do people even used that ?