Bing Chat AI now has access to plugins in addition to being able to use GPT-4 for free.
You can even disable web search to use it as ChatGPT.
I'll show you how to access and use the plugins:
1. Accessing plugins
Go to bing .com/chat
A new "Plugins" tab is available next to your conversation history.
Note:
This is currently being rolled out, but you may be able to access it later.
By clicking on it, you can scroll down to see all available plugins.
You can activate up to 3 at a time.
There are 6 at the moment:
- Instacart: get ingredients delivered to your store
- Kayak: plan a trip
- Klarna: compare prices online
- OpenTable: restaurant recommendations and reservations
- Shop: search for products
- Search: give the web access to Bing Chat
More to come (see below).
2. Use a plugin
Check the plugin(s) (up to 3) you're interested in.
Bing Chat will then be able to use it according to the prompt you write (like ChatGPT).
Example with the Klarna price comparison plugin:
Prompt → "Where to buy the cheapest white Nike Air Force?"
The plugin will give you websites to order from and the sizes available.
3. Enable / disable search
Until now, you couldn't use Bing Chat without web search.
Now you can disable it when it's not needed.
One advantage is that it makes Bing Chat faster at answering your questions.
Caution:
1. Dall-E 3 does not work when web search is disabled.
2. The recency of Bing Chat knowledge is limited to the GPT-4 one.
4. Future plugins
In May, Microsoft announced the arrival of plugins for Bing Chat.
Several others are already available in beta (Canary).
Canva, Adobe Express, Calendly or Wolfram could be added soon!
Here's the image that was published at the time of the announcement ↓
Bing Chat now has many of the features of ChatGPT Plus :
So a friendly reminder that OpenAI has released a guide to writing prompts for them.
Few important points and example:
The most important thing is to use delimiters, for example XML tags that look like this:
<context>
Your text...
</context>
You should also nest tags, for example: <outer><inner></inner></outer>
A concrete example below:
Prompt example:
I'm building a simple Python calculator application. It's a command-line interface (CLI) application for now, focusing on basic arithmetic operations. I'm using standard Python libraries and haven't implemented any complex error handling or UI yet.
When I perform a simple addition, like '2 + 2', the calculator sometimes returns '5' instead of '4'. This doesn't happen consistently, but it's reproducible after a few calculations. It seems to be more frequent after performing a division operation.
Identify the cause of this incorrect addition result and ensure that basic arithmetic operations, specifically addition, always return the correct value. I need to find the bug in my logic that's causing this intermittent incorrect calculation, possibly after a division.
Google has just launched an AI feature capable of planning, reasoning and searching the web.
All this is done in a single prompt using Deep Research.
This is literally the first reasoning model that has access to the internet. Game-changer.
How to use it below 🧵
1. Select model
Open Gemini Advanced and select “Deep Research” from the list at the top.
Then type your prompt. Example:
“Research all the possibilities for running a small AI model (LLM/SLM) locally on a Chromebook, without an internet connection.”
2. Edit the plan
You can adapt the plan before launching the research.
Just ask Gemini to delete, add, or modify steps. E.g:
“Add a step after the 3rd one: “Find out if it is possible to install an Android app on a Chromebook and run AI models locally within that environment”.