Show HN: Ellie – Your GPT-3 email assistant

by jivingson 12/15/2022, 4:11 PMwith 26 comments

by jivingson 12/15/2022, 4:17 PM

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!

by kampheyon 12/15/2022, 6:59 PM

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.

by longnguyenon 12/15/2022, 5:52 PM

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/160292507280489267...

by dr_kiszonkaon 12/16/2022, 4:51 AM

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.

by ApolloRisingon 12/16/2022, 3:53 AM

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.

by ascheareron 12/15/2022, 11:09 PM

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!

by ddmmaon 12/16/2022, 5:36 AM

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

by treelankoon 12/16/2022, 6:22 AM

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

by ApolloRisingon 12/16/2022, 4:18 AM

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

by muzanion 12/16/2022, 12:54 AM

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

by futheyon 12/15/2022, 10:38 PM

Checking Annoyed + Interested produces some interesting replies

by nikhilgohil11on 12/15/2022, 5:53 PM

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

by xwowsersxon 12/16/2022, 12:12 AM

typo on the landing page: "peroid"

by vdqtp3on 12/15/2022, 9:45 PM

Excellent, Avogadro Corp is getting closer.

by Pete-Codeson 12/15/2022, 9:05 PM

Looks good! I can see this being popular.

by mr-pinkon 12/16/2022, 5:36 AM

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