3.0
@hn_565a9f
26 days ago
Official post on their company blog (no idea why they reposted it on Twitter verbatim, that's bad SEO, ironically): https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/agents-or-bots-making-sen
Conversational answer engine that responds to natural-language queries with cited web sources inline; positioned as an AI-native search alternative.
@hn_565a9f
26 days ago
Official post on their company blog (no idea why they reposted it on Twitter verbatim, that's bad SEO, ironically): https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/agents-or-bots-making-sen
@hn_216ef0
26 days ago
And now Perplexity has mailed all of those "free" users to add a "card" (wont charge now) to continue with its free pro offer. Apart from airtel perplexity ran a lot of college based programs where students were basically referring each other for money.
@rd_ce4c4c
26 days ago
perplxty isnt worth it anymore paying
@hn_6448a2
26 days ago
I ran it through Perplexity Pro which gave a very different and detailed answer with this closing note: "It's worth noting that not all places named "Hamilton" are necessarily named after Alexander Hamilton. For example, Hamilton, Ontario in Canada is named after George Hamilton, a Canadian merchant. Similarly, Hamilton in Scotland and New Zealand are named after different individuals."
@hn_6455af
26 days ago
I paid for both for close to half a year to see which one I wanted to keep. I decided to drop Perplexity in favor of Kagi, because Perplexity felt like it was trying to position / portray itself as a supernatural-esque Source of Truth, where as Kagi does a better job at letting you use the tools how you want. Perplexity is also much less flexible than Kagi Assistant. The most customization you can do on Perplexity is answer a few questions about yourself, and hope that the info you add is injected into relevant prompts (spoiler alert: hope isn't very powerful here). With Kagi, I created a lens about a year ago to filter search results down to sources I find useful relating to GNU Guix, which I use for my machines. When Kagi Assistant rolled out (I pay for Ultimate, so I have had this a while) I made an Assistant that only pulls search results from my GNU Guix lens. The practical comparison here between Kagi and Perplexity is that I can go to Kagi and search "!guixc How do I install nginx?" (or simply ask the question in the Assistant interface; the bang will bring me there from search) and I will get back the answer I want. I added info that I use GNU Guix on my Perplexity profile, and there is not a chance that my question would have been answered within the context of GNU Guix as I wanted. Perplexity is cool, but I found Kagi to simply be more useful.