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Show HN: Create books on any topic with ChatGPT

13 points by timz 3y ago

This weekend wanted to try out the streaming ChatGPT API. As test project, created a simple website, which allows you to create whole books by providing just the title (with optional extra instructions). Given the title of the book, table of contents, chapters and sections with text content are generated. All books are listed on the home page, sorted into topic categories. As a bonus, when reading a specific section of a chapter, you can use the chat interface to ask for clarifications, request more content, list relevant topics, etc. The system does quite well with knowledge based books (history for example) and not so good with literature, where more prompt tweaking is needed. What books would you create? # Examples: The Bible https://the-bible.yo.link https://the-bible.yo.link Child Psychology for Parents https://child-psychology-for-parents.yo.link https://child-psychology-for-parents.yo.link ChatGPT: A step towards Artificial General Intelligence https://chatgpt-a-step-towards-agi.yo.link https://chatgpt-a-step-towards-agi.yo.link The World History from a global point of view https://the-world-history.yo.link https://the-world-history.yo.link The History of Ukraine https://the-history-of-ukraine.yo.link https://the-history-of-ukraine.yo.link Art of War: A modern perspective https://art-of-war-a-modern-perspective.yo.link https://art-of-war-a-modern-perspective.yo.link Kamasutra: A modern perspective https://kamasutra-a-modern-perspective.yo.link https://kamasutra-a-modern-perspective.yo.link

neontomo 3y ago
Had some fun with this ;) TITLE: Why You Should Eat More Sand 1.1 The Nutritional Value of Sand 1.2 Sand as a Source of Minerals 1.3 Sand as a Source of Fiber 1.4 Sand as a Source of Protein 1.5 Sand as a Source of Carbohydrates 1.6 Sand as a Source of Essential Fatty Acids
- timz 3y ago
  That definitely should go to "Humour & Fun" category ) Seems like chatgpt is not factchecking the input, assumes it is true.
mpolanco 3y ago
Amazing, wonderful, fantastic... I am trying to deploy it in Vercel, but I got error 500 (internal Error). Any suggestion?
- steventey 3y ago
  Which template are you trying to deploy to Vercel? If you can send me the link to the template/GitHub issue/support ticket, I can try and debug it for you!
  - mpolanco 3y ago
    Thanks a lot! I just forked books-by-ai, and added a new project in Vercel. The only thing I added was my openai api key, in the enviroment.
    - timz 3y ago
      Postgres storage must be added to vercel, it will define POSTGRES_PRISMA_URL env variable, which must be added to local .env file, to run locally. You also need to define OPENAI_API_KEY env variable. Will add instructions in the github README.
gorenb 3y ago
How do you set up the environment?
Susy12 3y ago
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- timz 3y ago
  Currenlty I run out of OpenAI API credits, will try to restore the functionality, or let you run it with your own api key.
john5555 3y ago
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WebLiveit 3y ago
Good day I have created a book link below https://books-by-ai.vercel.app/book/mastering-cruise-tourism-management/cll3gci9u000gjn087li4a4bl https://books-by-ai.vercel.app/book/mastering-cruise-tourism... but the I cannot access the scripts, please help Thanks
- lipis 3y ago
  It seems that it works now! Maybe ChatGTP was overloaded..
meetpateltech 3y ago
Amazing Project
author1 3y ago
I'm having trouble getting the website to generate the book contents, what could I be doing wrong?
7_hours_ago 3y ago
Is it possible to provide an option to enable ChatGPT to search the Internet for recent topics like LK-99 for example.
- deleted 3y ago
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gorenb 3y ago
This is genuinely great. Wow. 7_hours_ago's suggestion: > Is it possible to provide an option to enable ChatGPT to search the Internet for recent topics like LK-99 for example. would make enough of a difference for me to say that this is the greatest project with the OpenAI API that I have ever used.
- timz 3y ago
  Currently we are restricted by knowledge cutoff of chatgpt. If I understood correctly, you want a more advanced system, which would go search the internets for a given topic, collect a set of webpages around it, and come up with an organised presentation of information, in form of an article or a book. It could also possibly suggest a set of topics given the users interests. Sounds like an interesting and much more advanced project.
Hexeeb_ 3y ago
https://books-by-ai.vercel.app/book/dating-mastery/cll16vj8y0019lh08vfige7ir/1-introduction/1-1-lessvideo-tutorialgreater-httpsm-youtube-comwatchvxvfzjo5pgg0 https://books-by-ai.vercel.app/book/dating-mastery/cll16vj8y... I’m able to bypass restrictions and add links within the contents. This could be potentially dangerous. Creator of this AI should check this out.
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13 points by timz 3y ago

neontomo 3y ago

Had some fun with this ;) TITLE: Why You Should Eat More Sand 1.1 The Nutritional Value of Sand 1.2 Sand as a Source of Minerals 1.3 Sand as a Source of Fiber 1.4 Sand as a Source of Protein 1.5 Sand as a Source of Carbohydrates 1.6 Sand as a Source of Essential Fatty Acids

timz 3y ago
That definitely should go to "Humour & Fun" category ) Seems like chatgpt is not factchecking the input, assumes it is true.

mpolanco 3y ago

Amazing, wonderful, fantastic... I am trying to deploy it in Vercel, but I got error 500 (internal Error). Any suggestion?

steventey 3y ago
Which template are you trying to deploy to Vercel? If you can send me the link to the template/GitHub issue/support ticket, I can try and debug it for you!
- mpolanco 3y ago
  Thanks a lot! I just forked books-by-ai, and added a new project in Vercel. The only thing I added was my openai api key, in the enviroment.
  - timz 3y ago
    Postgres storage must be added to vercel, it will define POSTGRES_PRISMA_URL env variable, which must be added to local .env file, to run locally. You also need to define OPENAI_API_KEY env variable. Will add instructions in the github README.

gorenb 3y ago

How do you set up the environment?

Susy12 3y ago

[flagged]

timz 3y ago
Currenlty I run out of OpenAI API credits, will try to restore the functionality, or let you run it with your own api key.

john5555 3y ago

[dead]

WebLiveit 3y ago

Good day I have created a book link below https://books-by-ai.vercel.app/book/mastering-cruise-tourism-management/cll3gci9u000gjn087li4a4bl https://books-by-ai.vercel.app/book/mastering-cruise-tourism... but the I cannot access the scripts, please help Thanks

lipis 3y ago
It seems that it works now! Maybe ChatGTP was overloaded..

meetpateltech 3y ago

Amazing Project

author1 3y ago

I'm having trouble getting the website to generate the book contents, what could I be doing wrong?

7_hours_ago 3y ago

Is it possible to provide an option to enable ChatGPT to search the Internet for recent topics like LK-99 for example.

deleted 3y ago
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gorenb 3y ago

This is genuinely great. Wow. 7_hours_ago's suggestion: > Is it possible to provide an option to enable ChatGPT to search the Internet for recent topics like LK-99 for example. would make enough of a difference for me to say that this is the greatest project with the OpenAI API that I have ever used.

timz 3y ago
Currently we are restricted by knowledge cutoff of chatgpt. If I understood correctly, you want a more advanced system, which would go search the internets for a given topic, collect a set of webpages around it, and come up with an organised presentation of information, in form of an article or a book. It could also possibly suggest a set of topics given the users interests. Sounds like an interesting and much more advanced project.

Hexeeb_ 3y ago

https://books-by-ai.vercel.app/book/dating-mastery/cll16vj8y0019lh08vfige7ir/1-introduction/1-1-lessvideo-tutorialgreater-httpsm-youtube-comwatchvxvfzjo5pgg0 https://books-by-ai.vercel.app/book/dating-mastery/cll16vj8y... I’m able to bypass restrictions and add links within the contents. This could be potentially dangerous. Creator of this AI should check this out.

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