5 comments

  • dintech 1 hour ago
    For those that love the idea of this kind of child-friendly media consumption but maybe don’t have the time, consider Yoto. You can make your own cards that can contain one track or playlists of mp3s that you drag and drop onto a web interface. The yoto then downloads and stores those files, playing them whenever that card is inserted. You can also use the ipad app to browse and play the same content.
    • didgeoridoo 1 hour ago
      Yeah Yoto is our family’s iPad alternative to avoid exposing the kids to too much screen time. On car trips or when they’re just being wild we break them out and the kids love trading story cards and then zoning out and listening. Highly recommended.
  • Disposal8433 25 minutes ago
    The C++ code is bad. Do you have any experience with that language? Why did you decide to use it as is?
  • x______________ 3 hours ago
    >The HN community may find the context of the prompts, organized by each turn in each session, the most useful.

    So cool! I'll review fully later but was curious as something caught my attention, do you need to say please and thanks in your prompts for better outputs or is this just anthropomorphism taking over?

    • nick__m 40 minutes ago
      I do the same! To me it's a semi sarcastic hedge against the robots uprising and Roko's basilisk.

      But more seriously I remember reading somewhere the LLM produce better output with question starting with please, supplementary politeness was not improving results. Probably because the training corpus include many samples where politeness in request produce better response. That apply to the original GPT-3.5, how it applies to newer models your guess is as good or better then mine...

      The thanks are unnecessary but I guess they are useful to reinforce his son politeness habits.

  • xandrius 5 hours ago
    Great way to allow your kid to play the Frozen song on repeat every hour of the day :D
    • didgeoridoo 1 hour ago
      In my experience there is no way to avoid this short of eliminating every trace of copper and silicon from your home.
  • Tade0 7 hours ago
    I love the user story descriptions.