Hupreter
Dev tools
natural language programming
SHOW HN2021
How HN took it
2 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score -0.31.
Performance: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 2 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Upload-a-table feature is neat
From 1 comment
This is really interesting! The upload-a-table functionality is really neat > On the more UI side, there's a guy named Sharif Shameem who released a somewhat-similar tool (during…
valgaze on HN
Conversational app building is compelling
From 1 comment
This is really interesting! The upload-a-table functionality is really neat > On the more UI side, there's a guy named Sharif Shameem who released a somewhat-similar tool (during…
valgaze on HN
Objections
Natural language is ambiguous; vague terms like 'a little taller' will break it
From 2 comments
I can imagine this will end up creating more problems than it solves, for example depending on where you're from you might use various colloquialisms in speech which no AI will…
offtop5 on HNI mean what does a little bit taller than 6ft mean? A human would ask to clarify or supply a sane default. Using the Star Trek example characters would often ask the computer to…
foxes on HN
Non-programmers will get frustrated when it doesn't do what they need
From 1 comment
If you're not, you're going to endlessly frustrate yourself when this doesn't do exactly what you need it to. I guess I'd be more interested if the tool generated python code or…
offtop5 on HN
Looks like a programming language with a complex syntax
From 1 comment
I don't really know if I understand this. How is this not a programming language with a longer and more complex syntax structure? It would seem to be just as confusing to…
andiareso on HN
Failed on basic prompts like calculating primes
From 1 comment
I don't really understand this. I tried going at this as described with treating it as a natural language processor. I tried every iteration of 'calculate every prime number…
grawprog on HN
Requests
Allow editing of the generated Python code
From 1 comment
If you're not, you're going to endlessly frustrate yourself when this doesn't do exactly what you need it to. I guess I'd be more interested if the tool generated python code or…
offtop5 on HN
Support iterative refinement from feedback
From 1 comment
I mean what does a little bit taller than 6ft mean? A human would ask to clarify or supply a sane default. Using the Star Trek example characters would often ask the computer to…
foxes on HN
Questions
Does it use the OpenAI API?
From 1 comment
Is this built off the OpenAI API?
dennisy on HN
Will wording like 'show me' or 'display' cause syntax errors?
From 1 comment
Cool project, will I get syntax errors if I use “show me” or “display” instead of “print”. What if I actually want the computer to print on a piece of paper? “Print on the…
twobitshifter on HN
Alternatives named
Wolfram Alpha
From 1 comment
How does this compare with Wolfram Alpha? It looks like this project understand more sentences in English, but I guess the data that is preloaded is smaller.
gus_massa on HN
Sharif Shameem's GPT-3 UI generator
From 1 comment
This is really interesting! The upload-a-table functionality is really neat > On the more UI side, there's a guy named Sharif Shameem who released a somewhat-similar tool (during…
valgaze on HN
Jordan Singer's Figma plugin
From 1 comment
This is really interesting! The upload-a-table functionality is really neat > On the more UI side, there's a guy named Sharif Shameem who released a somewhat-similar tool (during…
valgaze on HN
Inform7 and HyperTalk
From 2 comments
I don't really understand this. I tried going at this as described with treating it as a natural language processor. I tried every iteration of 'calculate every prime number…
grawprog on HNCool project, will I get syntax errors if I use “show me” or “display” instead of “print”. What if I actually want the computer to print on a piece of paper? “Print on the…
twobitshifter on HN