Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

But it can't parse my mathematically really basic personal financial spreadsheet ...

I learned a lot about Gemini last night. Namely that I have lead it like a reluctant bull to understand what I want it to do (beyond normal conversations, etc).

Don't get me wrong, ChatGPT didn't do any better.

It's an important spreadsheet so I'm triple checking on several LLM's and, of course, comparing results with my own in depth understanding.

For running projects, and making suggestions, and answering questions and being "an advisor", LLM's are fantastic ... feed them a basic spreadsheet and it doesn't know what to do. You have to format the spreadsheet just right so that it "gets it".

I dread to think of junior professionals just throwing their spreadsheets into LLM's and runninng with the answers.

Or maybe I'm just shit at prompting LLM's in relation to spreadsheets. Anyone had better results in this scenario?

 help



You can ask the LLM to write a prompt for you. Example: "Explore prompts that would have circumvented all the previous misunderstanding."



Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: