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    Stardock updates DesktopGPT with Template Editor, better UI, and other improvements

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    While Windows users wait for OpenAI to release its official ChatGPT app for Windows, Stardock has something interesting for those who want a bit more. DesktopGPT, the app that Stardock claims offers "the easiest way to bring OPenAI's latest models to your desktop," received a pretty big update. With the latest version, you can create custom templates for uniform outputs based on the initial input.

     

    Template Editor in DesktopGPT is simple: you give your template a name, create a shortcut, and describe how the system should process your requests and generate responses. For example, respond to every question you ask, as Jesse Pinkman from the Breaking Bad series would yo. Or, as Stardock puts it in the update announcement, have ChatGPT talk to you like a pirate every time you invoke the pirate template.

     

    DesktopGPTs template editor
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    Of course, styling the conversation is just one simple response. The new DesktopGPT version comes with a few templates by default, like Summarize, Cover Later, Proofread, etc. The idea is to make using ChatGPT easier by generating output with a consistent format and not typing your custom prompt every time you want to interact with the service.

     

    As an example, I have a template created that takes a body of text and summarizes the information, formats questions based on the text, and then outputs it into a format that can be put into a CSV so that it can be loaded into a quiz tool my daughter uses to prepare for tests and quizzes.

    In addition to the template editor, the latest DesktopGPT update brings a more consistent user interface, code optimizations for better efficiency, and other minor changes that should improve customers' overall experience.

     

    DesktopGPT is available as part of the Object Desktop suite, which includes programs such as Fences, Start11, Groupy, SoundPackager, DeskScapes and Multiplicity.

     

    Disclaimer: Neowin's relationship to Stardock

     

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    The more they develop such apps the faster our civilization will deplete, the desire to ever make more money kills people's brains. They are making everything easy and deceitful.

    Young people needs to make efforts to learn, they need to go through the process of life through trial and error in all aspects of their lives, as long as it isn't life threatening. They need to learn how to seek for information and they need to train their brains to analyze and identify trends and insights.

    We're raising a generation of brain-dead youth, that they are only able to ask machine for whatever they need instead of looking for it.

    Will we wakeup, I'm not very hopeful.

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    SL0TH

    @dabourzannan Agreed, it's like plots of Idiocracy and WALL-E had a bastard-child that we're all are just stuck with now. I've even had the luxury of witnessing this first hand, with people Googling and/or LLM'ing solutions to common problems, not retaining a single bit of it and having to look it up all over again 3 days later. Rinse and repeat at least once or twice a week. We might as well rename the entire field "Artificial Idiocy" because it seems way more accurate.

    It also has the added benefit of using ridiculous amounts of energy and water (for cooling). Which doesn't help the climate issue and only hastens the worst possible outcome on that front.

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    @SL0TH As if we are voluntary committing suicide. You've had a hands on experience, can those people be trust to take responsibility as engineers or physicians? Our politicians should answer this question and start real regulation to this industry, if I may call it this way, specially the use of children.

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