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Show HN: Ellie – Your GPT-3 email assistant

68 points by jivings 4y ago

jivings 4y 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 4y 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.
  - jivings 4y ago
    Currently you provide some example emails and the replies you sent to them, and that's used in the prompt. Working on a fine-tune that uses more of your sent items that you can specify. Though it can be crazy good without any training at all!
- toomuchtodo 4y ago
  Please support FastMail!
  - jivings 4y ago
    I use fastmail so probably it will be next :)
- elkos 4y 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.
  - atmosx 4y ago
    > I strangle with English [...] You mean "struggle". You might want to check grammarly: https://www.grammarly.com/ https://www.grammarly.com/ - no affiliation.
longnguyen 4y ago
I gave it a try and it says exactly what I wanted to say. Great works! * I always wanted to opt out of Triplebyte but they never let me go[0] 0: https://twitter.com/daniel_nguyenx/status/1602925072804892672?s=12 https://twitter.com/daniel_nguyenx/status/160292507280489267...
nikhilgohil11 4y 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 4y ago
  You can provide email examples as training data
  - nnoitra 4y ago
kamphey 4y 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 4y 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 :)
Pete-Codes 4y ago
Looks good! I can see this being popular.
vdqtp3 4y ago
Excellent, Avogadro Corp is getting closer.
futhey 4y ago
Checking Annoyed + Interested produces some interesting replies
- jivings 4y ago
  It's the most fun one for sure
aschearer 4y 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!
xwowsersx 4y ago
typo on the landing page: "peroid"
- Ladyady 4y ago
  Ironically, there's also a few grammatical mistakes, like missing commas. Ellie will sort them out for you. :)
muzani 4y ago
I could use one for Slack. It probably won't get past security though.
ApolloRising 4y 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.
ApolloRising 4y ago
If you use more than 1 email account, can you use it across them if you pay?
dr_kiszonka 4y 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.
mr-pink 4y ago
if i see an exclamation point i know 100% the email is not sincere!
ddmma 4y ago
You can include voice and integrate in Outlook as addin. Source code included https://devpost.com/software/amabot https://devpost.com/software/amabot
treelanko 4y ago
Interesting to see GPT related products approaching the market. Will give this a try and update feedback.

68 points by jivings 4y 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 4y 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.
- jivings 4y ago
  Currently you provide some example emails and the replies you sent to them, and that's used in the prompt. Working on a fine-tune that uses more of your sent items that you can specify. Though it can be crazy good without any training at all!
toomuchtodo 4y ago
Please support FastMail!
- jivings 4y ago
  I use fastmail so probably it will be next :)
elkos 4y 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.
- atmosx 4y ago
  > I strangle with English [...] You mean "struggle". You might want to check grammarly: https://www.grammarly.com/ https://www.grammarly.com/ - no affiliation.

longnguyen 4y ago

I gave it a try and it says exactly what I wanted to say. Great works! * I always wanted to opt out of Triplebyte but they never let me go[0] 0: https://twitter.com/daniel_nguyenx/status/1602925072804892672?s=12 https://twitter.com/daniel_nguyenx/status/160292507280489267...

nikhilgohil11 4y 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 4y ago
You can provide email examples as training data
- nnoitra 4y ago

kamphey 4y 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 4y 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 :)

Pete-Codes 4y ago

Looks good! I can see this being popular.

vdqtp3 4y ago

Excellent, Avogadro Corp is getting closer.

futhey 4y ago

Checking Annoyed + Interested produces some interesting replies

jivings 4y ago
It's the most fun one for sure

aschearer 4y 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!

xwowsersx 4y ago

typo on the landing page: "peroid"

Ladyady 4y ago
Ironically, there's also a few grammatical mistakes, like missing commas. Ellie will sort them out for you. :)

muzani 4y ago

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

ApolloRising 4y 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.

ApolloRising 4y ago

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

dr_kiszonka 4y 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.

mr-pink 4y ago

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

ddmma 4y ago

You can include voice and integrate in Outlook as addin. Source code included https://devpost.com/software/amabot https://devpost.com/software/amabot

treelanko 4y ago

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