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Close, but it's a bit more specialized to just work on HN:

- Examples of unwanted content

- Then I give a large numbered list of comments and ask which numbers should be filtered

- The plugin then just deletes those comment nodes from the DOM. If HN ever updates their HTML I will have to tweak this code.

The reason to send a large list of comments is just to save on costs. It's cheaper to do it this way than one comment at a time.

So the main difference from what you've proposed is GPT never sees the HTML. My code enumerates the comments in the HTML and splices them in to the prompt in a nice numbered list, then does the reverse translation from list number to DOM element in the other direction.



Oh that’s clever! Thanks for answering!




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