[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":766},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-34509335":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":29,"sentiment":30,"stance_mix":31,"scored_comments":36,"aspects":37,"strip":50,"post_text":52,"what":53,"said":84,"maker_in_thread":230,"shape":240,"grid":244,"attempts":723,"same_week":728,"maker_shows":51,"maker_hidden":758,"reader_version":759,"card":760},"34509335","Konjer","Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3","title","Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.konjer.xyz\u002F","konjer.xyz","mnkm",1674590302,2023,261,173,187,3109,7,"legend","learning_science","book question answering","web_app",[24,25,26,27,28],"gpt-3","chatbot","book summaries","reading companion","ai reading","mixed",-0.063,{"positive":32,"neutral":33,"mixed":34,"critical":35},18,40,3,28,89,{"idea":38,"pricing":41,"performance":43,"execution":45,"design":47,"docs":49},{"positive":39,"critical":40},13,5,{"positive":42,"critical":42},0,{"positive":42,"critical":44},8,{"positive":42,"critical":46},12,{"positive":48,"critical":42},1,{"positive":42,"critical":42},[34,34,42,40,48,40,34,51,48,48,34,34,48,48,48,40,34,42,34,48,34,34,34,48,51,40,48,51,34,34,40,34,48,34,34,34,34,40,34,40],2,"So far I've used it to reference ideas from books I've read before.\n\nI've also used it to explore books I have not read before by asking the bot questions.\n\nSome people have told me they use it like a reading companion. They pause while reading the book if they have a question, and use Konjer to answer it.",{"problem":54,"audience":60,"pricing":67,"motivation":68,"time_to_build":67,"stack":73,"openness":82,"stage":83,"team_size":82},{"value":55,"source":56,"evidence":57},"Lets readers ask questions about books and get answers based on their contents","maker",[58],{"id":59},"post",{"value":61,"source":56,"evidence":62},"Readers who want to explore or revisit books interactively",[63,64],{"id":59},{"id":65,"by":11,"text":66},"34510905","If you click the emoji there are some sample questions for each book.",null,{"value":69,"source":70,"evidence":71},"Use GPT-3 to help people engage with books","inferred",[72],{"id":59},[74],{"value":75,"source":56,"evidence":76},"GPT-3",[77,78],{"id":59},{"id":79,"by":80,"text":81},"34510250","Kiro","How does this work? I thought there was some kind of limit in the size of the prompt and the API calls.","unknown","launched",{"praise":85,"objections":117,"requests":167,"questions":187,"alternatives":211},[86,106],{"value":87,"source":88,"evidence":89},"Novel, useful use of GPT-3 for reading","commenter",[90,94,98,102],{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},"34513948","56friends","Interesting. This is, perhaps, the most novel and innovative use of a GPT model I have encountered so far. It feels like you have invented a new product category. Maybe…",{"id":95,"by":96,"text":97},"34510005","notesinthefield","Funnily enough, asking Common Sense Investing \"why are ETF's bad\" yields an honest answer. Not that gpt could lie but I found that book unable to find faults at all! This is a…",{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"34514327","hnand","Great job! Really enjoyed asking questions about Hitchcock. When technology is there, it can be integrated with a speech engine so that we could get the answers in his own voice.",{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},"34515072","blooalien","That is a very cool use of GPT-3!",{"value":107,"source":88,"evidence":108},"Slick, well executed launch",[109,113],{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"34511515","otoburb","Congratulations on the launch -- this looks super slick and well executed. I commend your approach on avoiding religious texts, or really any domain that has numerous doctrinal…",{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},"34511554","princesse","Congrats on the launch. Once I submit a question I can see the answer but the question is gone. I think it'd be nice to keep the question around in the UI (or a log of questions?)",[118,137,156],{"value":119,"source":88,"evidence":120},"Answers sometimes drift from book content or hallucinate",[121,125,129,133],{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"34510066","xg15","You can see some of the usual GPT consistency problems. I chose Alan Moore's Writing for Comics and asked it how I should start best when writing a comic. It suggested first…",{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},"34510688","nathias","very cool, there are some discrepancies where it veers off into a more general context, it would be good if it could be made more consistent to the work ...",{"id":130,"by":131,"text":132},"34514469","hithereagain","This was interesting, but for the Stephen King On Writing Book, when I asked it what Chapter 5 was about, I got a different answer each time.",{"id":134,"by":135,"text":136},"34515869","DoryMinh","I asked the same question and it gives the same answer for every book. What's the point?",{"value":138,"source":88,"evidence":139},"Copyright and legality of using book content",[140,144,148,152],{"id":141,"by":142,"text":143},"34510771","jrochkind1","This is really interesting and neat, and also is, I think, a use of GPT-3 that seems, unfortunately, almost optimized for losing a USA copyright claim by the owners of the…",{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"34510372","ericra","Very interesting project. Nice work! I'm curious if you have copyright concerns since GPT-3 may presumably quote portions of the book back to you in some instances. I still don't…",{"id":149,"by":150,"text":151},"34510081","moneywoes","What's the legality of this? Redistributing content for paid books for sale? Edit: can this data be sold?",{"id":153,"by":154,"text":155},"34513126","jameswlepage","This is really interesting, and idea that I have been considering building for a while. I think this is better than anything I could've whipped up in that time. I'm interested in…",{"value":157,"source":88,"evidence":158},"Service often at capacity or erroring under load",[159,163],{"id":160,"by":161,"text":162},"34512001","eecc","How do you get a chance to use the chat? For me it’s constantly “at capacity”",{"id":164,"by":165,"text":166},"34517541","macbem","Did you get the HN hug of death? I've tried asking it some questions about Atomic Habits, but I just get an infinite spinner after submitting a message and a HTTP 500 response.",[168,176,183],{"value":169,"source":88,"evidence":170},"Support fiction books",[171,175],{"id":172,"by":173,"text":174},"34509986","_justinfunk","I wonder why the books are all non-fiction. I could imagine it would be entertaining to chat with large works of fiction.",{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},{"value":177,"source":88,"evidence":178},"Allow real back-and-forth chat rather than single questions",[179],{"id":180,"by":181,"text":182},"34512541","afro88","Great concept! I was a bit disappointed that I couldn't actually chat with the books (like ChatGPT), but rather only ask isolated single questions. Is this on your roadmap?",{"value":184,"source":88,"evidence":185},"Keep submitted questions visible in the UI",[186],{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},[188,200],{"value":189,"source":88,"evidence":190},"How the book text is loaded and processed for GPT-3",[191,195,196],{"id":192,"by":193,"text":194},"34510271","TomatoTomato","How are you getting the book text into gpt3?",{"id":79,"by":80,"text":81},{"id":197,"by":198,"text":199},"34513936","pyinstallwoes","How do you \"turn books into chatbots with GPT-3\", as in, what is the process you performed to find the usability you desire?",{"value":201,"source":88,"evidence":202},"Whether the model is fine-tuned or uses prompting",[203,207],{"id":204,"by":205,"text":206},"34518554","graiz","Is this a general prompt on top of GPT or is this a fine tuned model? Since all these books are well known and popular it could be a GPT prompt... \"I want you to act as if you're…",{"id":208,"by":209,"text":210},"34510405","low_tech_punk","Could you share your ML architecture? Curious if you did it via fine-tuning or other tricks. It is amazing.",[212,223],{"value":213,"source":88,"evidence":214},"ChatGPT",[215,219],{"id":216,"by":217,"text":218},"34512293","personjerry","Yeah you can just do that with ChatGPT. In fact ChatGPT is able to summarize books you don't have for you; Try it with Atomic Habits for example.",{"id":220,"by":221,"text":222},"34516907","egorfine","I have asked the Stephen King's book: \"What happened during the very first millisecond after the Big Bang\". Then I have asked plain ChatGPT the same question. And similar…",{"value":224,"source":88,"evidence":225},"Perplexity.AI",[226],{"id":227,"by":228,"text":229},"34513672","ProllyInfamous","I have discussed extensively with it about Vonnegut's entire intertexuality. I have learned so many incredible things. The neatest prompt I have crafted is this: \"What would the…",{"comments":32,"answered":231,"key":232},11,[233,234,237],{"id":65,"text":66},{"id":235,"text":236},"34510124","agreed -- slowly integrating fiction. if you're interested there are two fiction books up there right now. The Alchemist and Where the Red Fern Grows…",{"id":238,"text":239},"34510840","It has more to do with people's expectations of fiction books being different for this format. With non-fiction it's more straight forward. 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