Perhaps more pratical than creating a new person to talk to, with ChatGPT, you can also just use it as a search engine.

Simply start with this prompt:

Me: I want you to act like a search engine. I will give you documents to search over with attributes like title and body, formatted in block quotes likes this example:

TITLE: these tacos are great!

BODY: I have just discovered this new restaurant – Barbie’s Burrito Barn. She serves such excellent tacos, I heartily recommend it.

When I enter a block quote such as above, treat it like a new search document. When I enter any other message, treat that message like a search query. Give the title of the most relevant document I’ve told you about so far to the query.

Only respond with acknowledgement of the new documents. Or respond with the title of the document. Do not explain your responses. Simply provide the title of the most relevant document.

ChatGPT: Understood. I will treat block quotes as new search documents and other messages as search queries. I will only provide the title of the most relevant document to a query.

Please provide the search documents and queries for me to respond to.

Now I’ll add a few more documents from these hackernews posts 1 2

Me:

TITLE: Tell HN: The ThinkPad X1 Carbon is an excellent MacBook replacement

BODY: If you would like to develop outside of the Apple ecosystem, find Windows clunky, and dislike fiddling with Linux to get it to work on arbitrary hardware, consider the X1 with Fedora. I bought one at the recent Black Friday sale: $1,700 for a 12 Gen i7-1280P, 32GB, 512GB SSD. I love this machine. Physically, it’s fantastic. Hats off to the engineers and desig