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)
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docker pull hlohaus789/g4f -
docker run -p 8080:8080 -p 1337:1337 -p 7900:7900 --shm-size="2g" -v ${PWD}/hardir:/app/hardir hlohaus789/g4f:latest -
Open up the webui in your browser at localhost:8080
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In the “Provider” dropdown in the bottom look for “Liaobots”
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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
Oh, man. I hope you won’t take this poorly, but I can promise you that setting up some kind of GPT4-based LLM to wrote cover letters won’t help you find another job. Not ever.
I’m not sure if you’re trolling (if you are, LOL), but this is not the tree to bark up. Good luck though. The job market sucks at the moment.
Cover letters are about showing you are willing to put the effort in to writing a cover letter, nobody actually reads cover letters. LLMs are great for them until companies realize everyone is just using LLMs.
They already know that and have since people started using LLMs.
Also, if you write a cover letter with an LLM and don’t tweak it, it’s obvious to anyone who knows what to look for.
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.
It would sound snarky to say
correlation is not causationso 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.