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Show HN: Ellie – Your GPT-3 email assistant

68 points| jivings | 3 years ago |ellieai.com

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jivings|3 years ago

Hey HN! Yesterday I launched Ellie, an extension that helps you reply to emails using OpenAI.

Ellie learns your writing style, and uses the email thread to create context and craft a reply as if it was you.

Currently Ellie is a Chrome extension that only supports Gmail, but I'll be working on supporting more email clients and browsers soon!

Luc|3 years ago

When you say it learns your writing style, does that mean previously seen emails are stored somehow?

I tried it briefly and it dealt well with my contrived tests! Even in other languages, though there it wasn't perfect. Nice work.

elkos|3 years ago

If you could support Migadu and Firefox it would be awesome. I strangle with English (and to some extent with my native language, Greek) so I would love to check tool that improve my text based communications.

toomuchtodo|3 years ago

Please support FastMail!

kamphey|3 years ago

While it gets the agree/disagree wrong most of the time, I do like that it makes my replies more pleasant and verbose. I used to write very very short replies but now can write a bit more to help.

It really tho tries to agree to everything. I dont do calls so I just have to change a few words. I like that the sentiment is respectful. Makes me sound warmer in reply.

jivings|3 years ago

Does it!? I haven't really seen this, maybe I can tweak the prompts a little to compensate. If you want to drop me an email that would be super :)

dr_kiszonka|3 years ago

I hate writing emails and I welcome services like this. The emails I sent are usually to higher-ups and need to be super polite, precise, and without errors, so they take a while to write. ChatGPT is excellent for this purpose. I give it a summary of the email I want and some info about the recipient. Its responses are largely spot on. I slightly edit them, run them through Grammarly and Language Tool and I am usually done in 1/5 of the time it would take me to write it myself. It is much less stressful too.

ApolloRising|3 years ago

Small bug, I signed up on my home machine to send it to my work email. The form does not let you grab the zip file again, if your email is already registered.

I know it is in the email itself, but the website should also allow it.

Looking forward to being a paying customer when it is out of beta.

aschearer|3 years ago

Neat! The example generated email is a work of art. Something only a computer could write lol. I, too, appreciate being thought of as a valuable community member. Let us follow one another on a journey through Hacker News. Thanks for sharing!

treelanko|3 years ago

Interesting to see GPT related products approaching the market. Will give this a try and update feedback.

ApolloRising|3 years ago

If you use more than 1 email account, can you use it across them if you pay?

muzani|3 years ago

I could use one for Slack. It probably won't get past security though.

futhey|3 years ago

Checking Annoyed + Interested produces some interesting replies

jivings|3 years ago

It's the most fun one for sure

nikhilgohil11|3 years ago

this is really great! how it learns my style? what about newly setup email account? What would be the suggestions in that case?

jivings|3 years ago

You can provide email examples as training data

xwowsersx|3 years ago

typo on the landing page: "peroid"

Ladyady|3 years ago

Ironically, there's also a few grammatical mistakes, like missing commas. Ellie will sort them out for you. :)

vdqtp3|3 years ago

Excellent, Avogadro Corp is getting closer.

Pete-Codes|3 years ago

Looks good! I can see this being popular.

mr-pink|3 years ago

if i see an exclamation point i know 100% the email is not sincere!