Ask HN: What's the coolest thing you've gotten ChatGPT to do?

We got it to write a working two player Pong game in minified JS, except you can jump in it like in Mario.<p>It took a lot of iteration as initially it wouldn’t for example put a ground in the game, so you’d just fall forever, but one by one pointing out the mistakes actually resulted in a playable game.

It helped me build a database of around 3000 medieval names for my RPG that I am working on.

- explain rust compiler errors and the fixes. I had never used rust before!<p>- generate sympy for math. Could also probably have it generate mathematica&#x2F;wolfram<p>- convert a small c library to c++ and also have it generate python bindings with pybind11<p>- give it the spec of a simple dsl and have it generate the Lark grammar for the parser

it drew me pictures in SVG. it correctly depicted a triangle and 5 circles in different colors each and also made some flags, although not the ones i asked for.<p>for fish it drew a hollow circle.<p>for heart it drew a red filled circle.<p>failed to separate circles when i asked not to overlap them.<p>it failed to drew &quot;Olympic Games emblem&quot; but gave something nice instead: &lt;svg width=&quot;200&quot; height=&quot;200&quot;&gt; &lt;rect x=&quot;0&quot; y=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; fill=&quot;#0099cc&quot; &#x2F;&gt; &lt;circle cx=&quot;100&quot; cy=&quot;100&quot; r=&quot;80&quot; fill=&quot;#ffffff&quot; &#x2F;&gt; &lt;path d=&quot;M 31.44,45.76 A 48.56,48.56 0 1,1 168.56,45.76 A 48.56,48.56 0 1,1 31.44,45.76 Z&quot; fill=&quot;#ff4f00&quot; &#x2F;&gt; &lt;path d=&quot;M 70.44,65.76 A 29.56,29.56 0 1,1 129.56,65.76 A 29.56,29.56 0 1,1 70.44,65.76 Z&quot; fill=&quot;#ffff00&quot; &#x2F;&gt; &lt;path d=&quot;M 50.44,85.76 A 9.56,9.56 0 1,1 149.56,85.76 A 9.56,9.56 0 1,1 50.44,85.76 Z&quot; fill=&quot;#00b849&quot; &#x2F;&gt; &lt;path d=&quot;M 90.44,85.76 A 9.56,9.56 0 1,1 109.56,85.76 A 9.56,9.56 0 1,1 90.44,85.76 Z&quot; fill=&quot;#000000&quot; &#x2F;&gt; &lt;path d=&quot;M 31.44,65.76 A 29.56,29.56 0 1,1 168.56,65.76 A 29.56,29.56 0 1,1 31.44,65.76 Z&quot; fill=&quot;#00b8e6&quot; &#x2F;&gt; &lt;path d=&quot;M 90.44,65.76 A 29.56,29.56 0 1,1 109.56,65.76 A 29.56,29.56 0 1,1 90.44,65.76 Z&quot; fill=&quot;#ffffff&quot; &#x2F;&gt; &lt;&#x2F;svg&gt;<p>for flags, it often could describe accurately how the flag of a particular country looks like but drew the French one anyways, while claiming it shows this and that color which agrees to the flag I asked for :)<p>Interesting case for the Hungarian flag:<p>&quot;The flag of Hungary is made up of three equal-sized horizontal bands, with the middle band being wider than the two outer bands. The left band is red, the center band is white, and the right band is green.&quot;<p>… and it put the flipped Romanian&#x2F;Andorran flag in the svg :)

Just the fact that it can have an opinion, and that opinion can be argued with is cool.<p>Conversational-style learning and troubleshooting is also cool. Although the troubleshooting of programming issues isn&#x27;t its strong point right now.