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Show HN: My tool to rewrite Wikipedia stories for kids

23 points by ckrapu 4y ago

ckrapu 4y ago
I’m about to have my first child and I want to read to my baby. I only have so much patience for kids books, and I want to tell my kid about the real world. This site is a light UI over some prompt engineering to parse and rewrite Wikipedia articles. I’m open to any feedback! I’m not trying to market or monetize anything - I just want to get parents to read more to their kids.
- mikelnrd 4y ago
  Hey great idea! Would you mind sharing the prompts you used? I'd like to try it with my little one and play around with the prompts further.
flucosemonitor 4y ago
Is this meant to be educational? How about adding a feature to customize the length (in words or minutes) of the story?
- ckrapu 4y ago
  That’s not too much of a lift aside from working around the maximum tokens limit on the GPT API. Wikipedia articles are long enough to eat up the total token count just with the prompt.
expectant 4y ago
I am also expecting my first child (hence the username). Love this idea!
duckbills 4y ago
Giving you a vote because I like that duck image. Is that AI-generated?
- ckrapu 4y ago
  Yes! It is from DALLE-2.
bacchusracine 4y ago
Wow...I love that this exists. While I would need to check it before reading to a child for bias (Wikipedia's NPOV has been a joke for a long while now) this is an excellent idea for those seeking to both entertain and inform their children.
- ckrapu 4y ago
  Oh man, I’ve tried so hard to figure out how to prompt engineer the subtler things out. One of the hardest topics I came across was Mardi Gras. No matter what I did, GPT always wanted to (1) comment on how women like to flash while drunk in the streets and (2) how sternly it disapproved of this practice, violating instructions I had for sexual or vulgar content AND moral prescriptions.
_the_inflator 4y ago
What I really like is the Vocabulary section under a story. Really cool, even for adults.
fluidmech 4y ago
Neat and lightweight, I like it. Glad there’s a tool for more interaction between parents and kids. Seems like every other app or device out there is meant to keep kids quiet so parents can go do other things.

23 points by ckrapu 4y ago

I’m about to have my first child and I want to read to my baby. I only have so much patience for kids books, and I want to tell my kid about the real world. This site is a light UI over some prompt engineering to parse and rewrite Wikipedia articles. I’m open to any feedback! I’m not trying to market or monetize anything - I just want to get parents to read more to their kids.

mikelnrd 4y ago
Hey great idea! Would you mind sharing the prompts you used? I'd like to try it with my little one and play around with the prompts further.

flucosemonitor 4y ago

Is this meant to be educational? How about adding a feature to customize the length (in words or minutes) of the story?

ckrapu 4y ago
That’s not too much of a lift aside from working around the maximum tokens limit on the GPT API. Wikipedia articles are long enough to eat up the total token count just with the prompt.

expectant 4y ago

I am also expecting my first child (hence the username). Love this idea!

duckbills 4y ago

Giving you a vote because I like that duck image. Is that AI-generated?

ckrapu 4y ago
Yes! It is from DALLE-2.

bacchusracine 4y ago

Wow...I love that this exists. While I would need to check it before reading to a child for bias (Wikipedia's NPOV has been a joke for a long while now) this is an excellent idea for those seeking to both entertain and inform their children.

ckrapu 4y ago
Oh man, I’ve tried so hard to figure out how to prompt engineer the subtler things out. One of the hardest topics I came across was Mardi Gras. No matter what I did, GPT always wanted to (1) comment on how women like to flash while drunk in the streets and (2) how sternly it disapproved of this practice, violating instructions I had for sexual or vulgar content AND moral prescriptions.

_the_inflator 4y ago

What I really like is the Vocabulary section under a story. Really cool, even for adults.

fluidmech 4y ago

Neat and lightweight, I like it. Glad there’s a tool for more interaction between parents and kids. Seems like every other app or device out there is meant to keep kids quiet so parents can go do other things.