How I Have Been Using ChatGPT at Home

Joy Bose
3 min readSep 23, 2024

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I subscribed to the paid version of ChatGPT 4o today. I was getting tired of running out of the usage tokens for the past few days (in the free version) and being downgraded to the lower model, especially for images. Upgrading to the paid version made things much smoother.

A list of things I have done with Chatgpt so far is as follows.

1. Tracking Health Through Blood Reports
I used it to check my blood test health reports and those of my mother, and inform about any red flags. In my case, I asked it to compare the blood test report from 1 year ago with this year’s report. This was after attaching the PDF of the health reports.

2. As a financial advisor
I gave ChatGPT an excel of my overall assets and liabilities and asked it for advice on where and how to invest and how much returns I can get on retiring.

3. Dietician and exercise coach
I used it to ask dietary and exercise advice, after telling it data about my current health statistics like weight, BMI and lifestyle. It will tell you even the specific yoga asanas to do if thats what you want.

4. As a creative artist
I used chatGPT to generate tons of images, posters etc: and also for better prompts to input to dall-e and other image generators such as OpenArt AI, midjourney, Meta’s AI chatbot etc. Same for prompts for video for InVideoAI.

5. CV and linkedIn checker
Used it to ask for feedback on my CV and linkedIn profile.

6. As a meditation teacher
Used it to ask about how to improve my meditation practice, after giving it my current time of practicing daily, all my distractions and difficulties.

7. For Legal Advice (be careful but!)
I used it for a bit of legal advice even. Both for general legal advice as well as details of a specific court case. It can summarize legal documents and judgements well too. But be a little careful with what it says, and sometimes its safer to go to a professional lawyer.

8. As a counsellor
I used it for a bit of counselling as a psychologist (although Wysa app was probably better, more qualified and friendlier for that).

9. As a marketing guide for a book
I used it to better market a book my father was writing. It will tell you what keywords to use etc, even book design and font size etc

10. As a creative content generator for poems and music
I used it to generate poems for given prompts, in English and Hindi and even sanskrit. Then I asked it to generate tunes for the same poems, thus turning them into songs.

11. As a travel planner
I used it to plan my itinerary for a 2 day sightseeing trip to London, given my time and money and prior appointments etc constraints that I explained to it.

12. As a coding assistant, but be very careful and cross check
Last but not the least, to code for android. But sometimes the code it tells is not accurate enough, or there are some gaps. So better be careful about this. Stackoverflow is probably a lot more useful.

13. As an astrologer!
Just tried this based on a friend’s suggestion: you give it the exact time and place of birth and it will make your exact Indian style kundli or astrological chart and predictions. Also tried the same for Chinese style astrology. The output may or may not be correct, but I found it amazing that it can actually do this!

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Joy Bose
Joy Bose

Written by Joy Bose

Working as a software developer in machine learning projects. Interested in the intersection between technology, machine learning, society and well being.

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