Comment by d4rkp4ttern

4 hours ago

When notebookLM was new, it was interesting to listen to the podcasts. Then the novelty wore off, and I wanted something where I can interact with the podcasters but it was janky as hell.

My current “audio-learning” hack is ChatGPT Live which has become shockingly good after being awful compared to Claude Voice (Let’s not even talk about Gemini voice which is still bad).

I go on a walk and dump a paper or article link in the chat, and ask chatGPT Live to walk me through the content in small nuggets, so I can discuss them interactively. For deeper topics I have it quiz me Socratic style so I’m not just passively listening, and actually thinking through problems or ideas.

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citiguy  3 hours ago

Oh wow, this is a great idea. Can I ask what your prompt looks like?

  • d4rkp4ttern  3 hours ago

    Me:

        Ok so I'm going on a walk. I'll dump a link to a Hacker News   
    discussion about an article. 
    You have to read the article and the discussion and walk me thru   
    all the interesting details, nugget by nugget, and move on when 
    I'm ready for the next piece.

    ChatGPT Live:

        ok, Great show me the link, I'm waiting.

    (I paste the link)

    Me:

        Ok I pasted it. Now go.

    ====

    For the Socratic quiz I say:

        I want to understand this more deeply. So instead of you just telling me
    everything, lay out the problem and a question for me to think about, and 
    I'll try to answer. Even if I answer wrong, you should resist giving me the
    answer, and instead keep digging with more questions, so that I eventually 
    arrive at the answer myself.

    I also have a Socratic quiz skill that I wrote for using in Claude Code or Codex to understand implementations/architecture etc:

    https://pchalasani.github.io/claude-code-tools/plugins-detai...

    • blitzar  1 hour ago

      > You have to read the article

      Nahh - pile in based on the title and what you assume the contents might be.

    • mandeepj  1 hour ago

      To each their own, but for me - that'd be a heavy cognitive load. I ask Claude or ChatGPT to summarize HN comments and the article and provide any takeaways or wisdom nuggets. That's it.

lardosaurusrex  2 hours ago

>hack

>podcast slop

>letting the llm do it for you

there is a very good reason microsoft's ceo got repeatedly dunked on and it was because he literally couldn't stop babbling incoherently about having AI listen to things for him

i cannot imagine just sucking the joy out of life like this.