Hello sailors,

I have been job hunting for a while and I have felt a great disadvantage in my job search due to my lack of access to high-quality LLMs. Writing cover letters is honestly so bullshit. GPT-3 is honestly quite bad nowadays, but as a true pirate at heart I couldn’t quite get myself to cough up the coin for OpenAI’s GPT4 out of principle. I hate them for putting their cutting edge technology behind a paywall, making it inaccessible for their own gain. I feel like this is not what the internet was supposed to be. So today, call me the great emancipator cuz i’m teaching u how to get that shi for free baby

Requirements: Docker

It’s all gonna be based off of this github repo: gpt4free

Installing through docker (there’s also a way to install with Python PIP if that’s more convenient for you. The docker worked for me though)

  1. docker pull hlohaus789/g4f

  2. docker run -p 8080:8080 -p 1337:1337 -p 7900:7900 --shm-size="2g" -v ${PWD}/hardir:/app/hardir hlohaus789/g4f:latest

  3. Open up the webui in your browser at localhost:8080

  4. In the “Provider” dropdown in the bottom look for “Liaobots”

  5. Choose “gpt-4-plus” under the “Models” dropdown

??? Profit

The cool thing about gpt4free is that there’s a lot of providers and a lot of models to choose from! So if gpt-4-plus from Liaobot doesn’t work for you you can switch to something else easily. Do note that some models require you to provide an authentication token or be logged in. Most of them work right out of the box tho.

*this post was not made with any use of an llm I promise ;)

^^list of gpt4 providers

  • AffidavitEnglish
    161·
    8 months ago

    My sister got a job with a primarily LLM-written cover letter. When trying to sway someone to your side, how you say something can matter more than what you say.

    For people who aren’t good at articulating themselves, noting down key dot points about their skills and job history alongside a job description, then asking a LLM to write out a cover letter can be very helpful, even if only to get a rough draft.

    As an aside, out of curiosity, I asked ChatGPT 3.5 to rewrite my comment above and got the following, not sure which is better TBH.

    My sister landed a job using a cover letter mostly written by a language model. When persuading someone, the tone and style of your message can outweigh its content.

    For individuals who find it challenging to articulate themselves, outlining key skills and job experiences alongside a job description, and then seeking assistance from a language model to compose a cover letter, can prove highly beneficial, even if only as a starting point.

    • Kribensis@lemm.eeEnglish
      91·
      8 months ago

      It would sound snarky to say correlation is not causation so let me say instead: just because your sister got a job with that cover letter doesn’t mean it’s the reason.

      Hiring managers and HR don’t always read cover letters. Most never do. All your applications go into a applicant tracking system (ATS) anyway and your info gets extracted. Lately, folks uses LLMs to query that stuff: “find me all the candidates who went to top colleges,” or “which of these candidates can bend a steel beam with their bare hands,” etc.

      It’s not the right sub for this, but spending a bunch of energy on cover letters won’t do much. Better cover letters won’t hurt and BAD cover letters might hurt, but there are many other reasons someone doesn’t get call-backs.

      I have zero clue what field OP works in, but they’re actually free to DM me for advice if they like.