A script that can run in the background and listen to hotkeys, then uses a Large Language Model to fix the text. Less than 100 lines of code.
Inspired by this tweet:
https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1725553780878647482
"GPT is surprisingly good at correcting minor typos, so you can write really really fast, ignore mistakes and keep going, and it comes out just fine." - Andrej Karpathy
Ollama Installation: https://github.com/ollama/ollama
Run ollama run mistral:7b-instruct-v0.2-q4_K_S
Mistal 7B Instruct works well for this task, but feel free to try other models, too :)
pip install pynput pyperclip httpx
- pynput: https://pynput.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- pyperclip: https://github.com/asweigart/pyperclip
- httpx: https://github.com/encode/httpx/
Start the assistant:
python main.py
Hotkeys you can then press:
- F9: Fixes the current line (without having to select the text)
- F10: Fixes the current selection
Note: The code works on macOS. The underlying shortcuts in the code like Cmd+Shift+Left, Cmd+C, Cmd+V might have to be changed for Linux & Windows (e.g. Key.cmd -> Key.ctrl).
Hotkeys, prompt, and Ollama config can be easily customized and extended in the code.
For example, here are some prompt templates you can try:
from string import Template
PROMPT_TEMPLATE_FIX_TEXT = Template(
"""Fix all typos and casing and punctuation in this text, but preserve all new line characters:
$text
Return only the corrected text."""
)
PROMPT_TEMPLATE_GENERATE_TEXT = Template(
"""Generate a snarky paragraph with 3 sentences about the following topic:
$text
Return only the corrected text."""
)
PROMPT_TEMPLATE_SUMMARIZE_TEXT = Template(
"""Summarize the following text in 3 sentences:
$text
Return only the corrected text."""
)