Perplexity: free AI search engine and chat with citations

https://www.perplexity.ai/

Wanted to share this one because I find myself using it every day—often in place of Google. You can even somewhat replace Siri with it using the app’s Apple Shortcuts:

Note: I haven’t read the privacy policy or terms and do suspect that there is some form of data collection.

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3 Comments

CurlyChopz@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Seems to have that whole sassy thing that Gonk (I really hate that name) is promising, I'll check it out I guess. How is it at answering questions accurately? There's no point if I have to search the validity anyway

silas@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Well in that example I gave it a very exaggerated prompt to give it that sarcasm, then I used RegEx to remove the source citations, but normally you can just click the citation links it includes to verify the info.

CurlyChopz@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2y

That's cool. I've been using this for the past 2 days and wow, it's really capable. Thanks for sharing!