clevercli VS gptel

Mostly just asking stuff directly on https://chat.openai.com/chat. Last 5 requests (all successful) were:

- Asked about an idiom I forgot about by saying it in other words.

- Asked it to dumb down some things about options (finance) I didn't understand.

- Asked it if I could use the eBay API to list my purchase history.

- Asked it to generate pretty standard Terms of Service for an app I'm working on.

- Asked it to build a moderately complex Prisma (ORM) query that I described in natural language.

Also, occasionally ask about shell commands using a CLI I wrote[0].

[0] https://github.com/clevercli/clevercli

FWIW I made a CLI utility that does this, it saves some typing / copy-pasting. Only made one for Rust and TypeScript now but more languages can be easily added: https://github.com/clevercli/clevercli#built-in-prompts

Emacs is able to run prompts, just like any other tool that's able to make an HTTP request. E.g., https://github.com/karthink/gptel provides hooks to both OpenAI and local LLMs, and allows you to use them anywhere—since everything in Emacs is a buffer.

There are some pretty great examples in the README.

Also worth checking out for more general use of LLMs in emacs: https://github.com/karthink/gptel

gptel: An LLM chat client for Emacs, supports ChatGPT and local LLMs (via Ollama, GPT4All or llama.cpp)

That would be great, though ChatGPT seems to prefer Markdown even when org is requested. Didn't want to fight it too much. Did you manage to get a reliable prompt, or if I'm understanding correctly gptel converts Markdown to Org?

I use https://github.com/karthink/gptel to talk to GPT in Emacs and, by extension, have a record of all my conversations (unless intentionally removed) as simple Org files in my single Org-Roam network.

It made me a working function on the first try. (sorry, I lost the exact prompt, I just ran gptel from my scratch buffer)