The Daily Index — Thursday, September 21, 2023 · TLDR Index

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PROMPT FIDELITY

DALL-E 3, OpenAI’s latest text-to-image generator, will be available to ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise customers in early October. OpenAI has yet to release any technical details about the model. DALL-E 3 refines small details like hands more effectively and can create engaging images without hacks or prompt engineering. Examples of images generated with DALL-E 3 along with their prompts are available in the article.

arstechnica.com · 6 min

TLDR AI

OPENAI LAUNCHES DALL·E 3

DALL·E 3 understands significantly more nuance and detail than previous systems, allowing users to easily translate your ideas into exceptionally accurate images. It will soon be integrated natively into ChatGPT.

openai.com · 4 min

TLDR Web Dev

GET ALL THAT NETWORK ACTIVITY UNDER CONTROL WITH PRIORITY HINTS

There’s a lot of activity going on in a browser’s network tab. The browser is very good at prioritizing resource requests, but not always great. For example, a payment request should have higher priority over an analytics request, but the browser has no way of knowing this priority without explicit specification. Priority hints can be used to provide explicit instructions to decide which requests to favor over others when resources are limited. This article looks at how and when to use four different types of priority hints.

macarthur.me · 8 min

TLDR Crypto

MIRROR: REALTIME ON-CHAIN DATA, SYNCED DIRECT TO DATABASE

Goldsky has launched Mirror, a data pipeline solution for real-time streaming of on-chain data to off-chain databases. Mirror allows developers to merge data from multiple chains into one repository, generate advanced dashboards, and effortlessly combine on-chain data with off-chain data. It provides broad support for various database connectors and is powered by Goldsky's indexing coverage on major EVM-compatible chains.

goldsky.com · 2 min

TLDR Design

BARD CAN NOW CONNECT TO YOUR GOOGLE APPS AND SERVICES

Bard can now find and show relevant information from the Google tools we use every day — Gmail, Docs, Drive, Maps, YouTube, Flights, and Hotels — even when the information needed is across multiple apps and services. Integration with other Google apps will make using Bard a more seamless experience, always at users’ fingertips, ready to help.

blog.google · 3 min

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AMAZON IS SET TO SUPERCHARGE ALEXA WITH GENERATIVE AI

Amazon unveiled an all-new Alexa voice assistant powered by a large language model during its fall hardware event on Wednesday. The new Alexa can understand conversational phrases and respond appropriately, interpret context more effectively, and complete multiple requests from one command. It could take home automation to the next level. Amazon will roll out the new assistant slowly to customers in the US through a preview program in the coming months.

theverge.com · 9 min

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INTRODUCING RUNES

Svelte 5's runes unlock universal, fine-grained reactivity in JavaScript. They use function syntax to achieve the same things and more as let, =, the export keyword, and the $: label. Svelte 5 is not yet in production, but developers can test its new features through an interactive playground on its preview site.

svelte.dev · 6 min

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UNTIL MARKETS TURNED LAST YEAR

Apple and Goldman Sachs were working on an investing feature that would let customers buy and sell stocks in 2020. The project was canceled as the markets went south last year. It was meant to roll out in 2022 and allow iPhone users to put money into Apple shares. The infrastructure for the feature is mostly built and ready to go, should Apple eventually decide to move forward with it.

cnbc.com · 5 min

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LANGUAGE MODEL UXES IN 2027

This article explores what large language model-powered software might look like in the medium-term future. LLMs are going to significantly shift how we interact with computers. The current state of the technology seems rudimentary and it's increasingly clear that generative AI can't quite replace the other UX innovations that have been introduced over the last several decades. LLM UXes will likely evolve to have a memory of past interactions in order to provide more relevant responses.

vishnumenon.com · 13 min