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Poe: Your One-Stop-Shop for Chatbots — Say Goodbye to ChatGPT Frustration!

Peter Loehide
3 min readApr 11, 2023
Poe: Your One-Stop-Shop for Chatbots — Say Goodbye to ChatGPT Frustration!
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As a self-proclaimed tech novice, I never thought I’d find myself knee-deep in the land of algorithms and machine learning.

But here I am, determined to learn the ins and outs of A.I. and figure out what all the fuss is about.

And let me tell you, it’s been a wild ride so far.

I’ve spent hours trying to wrap my head around the concept of neural networks, only to end up more confused than when I started. And don’t even get me started on trying to decipher the difference between supervised and unsupervised learning.

But hey, I’m not giving up. I’ve got my trusty coffee mug and a can-do attitude, and about an hour spare every day to dive back in.

Who knows, maybe one day I’ll even be able to build my own robot butler to take out the bins. A man can dream, right?

Greetings, fellow future SkyNet worshippers!

So, let’s talk about ChatGPT.

It’s a remarkable piece of technology, no doubt, but let’s face it — it’s a really crappy consumer product. You load up OpenAI’s revolutionary chatbot and what do you get? A long wait and then, most likely, a message telling you it’s over capacity and you can’t use it.

How frustrating is that?

But fear not, my friends. Enter Poe, the chatbot app that’s aiming to make bots easier for everyone to use by bringing them all in one place. And who’s behind this amazing app, you may ask?

None other than Adam D’Angelo, the CEO of Quora.

D’Angelo sees a huge potential in interactive bots, and he’s not alone. He believes that in the future there will be hundreds, thousands, or even millions of different bots for different purposes.

And for almost any company that isn’t a tech giant, “the amount of work it takes to make a high-quality chat experience is just too much.” That’s where Poe comes in.

With Poe, you have access to ChatGPT and GPT-4, Claude Plus and Claude Instant, Sage, and Dragonfly — all in one app.

And the best part? It’s really fast.

Plus, you get to choose which bot you want to use for different purposes. Want a bot to talk like a pirate? Poe’s got you covered. Need a bot to roast you mercilessly? Poe’s got that too. Want to learn Japanese? Well, you get the idea.

But it’s not just about having a variety of bots to choose from. D’Angelo sees Poe as a sort of Swiss Army knife for AI tools, a way to recommend the right bot for the right task.

If you’re doing programming, what’s the best bot to help with that?

If you’re doing the writing, what’s the best for that?

With Poe, you won’t have to spend hours searching for the right bot — it’s all there in one app.

And let’s not forget about Poe’s user-created bots feature. That’s right, you can build your own bot to do pretty much whatever you want. Talk about endless possibilities.

Now, of course, there are still some kinks to work out. For one thing, Poe is still relatively new, and there’s always the question of how successful it will be in the long run. And then there’s the issue of safety and data usage.

But D’Angelo is confident that the good of chatbots vastly outweighs the bad.

So, whether you’re a chatbot aficionado or a curious novice, Poe is definitely worth checking out. And who knows, maybe one day you’ll be able to build your own chatbot empire.

The possibilities are endless, my friends.

SOURCE: https://www.theverge.com/23674656/poe-ai-chatbot-messaging-app

Happy prompt-ing folks!

Peter

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