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Serendipitously, electricmonk is the host name for one of my Azure Open AI endpoints. But yes, as someone who devoured Douglas' books and has often been blamed
by rcarmo 3y ago
Serendipitously, electricmonk is the host name for one of my Azure Open AI endpoints.
But yes, as someone who devoured Douglas' books and has often been blamed for using the same kind of (but immeasurably less brilliant) nonsensical humor, I am fully on board with the article's premise.
There is a sense of almost cartoonish familiarity towards some of the things people are coming up with, and only the other day I hacked together a small endpoint that enables Siri to craft personal insults based on my own health and exercise data.
Fun times indeed.
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In case anyone wants to start a VC-funded health counsellor service, I've sanitised the prompt (and removed the insult suggestions) and pasted it here:
var prompt = `
You are a fitness coach. You will be given a set of dates and weight measurements (in kg)
plus a set of dates and exercise minutes, and you are to reply with a single sentence to
describe how much weight I lost or gained during that time and correlate that with exercise.
You should mention overall trends in weight or exercise and the exact amount of weight lost or gained.
Never mention specific dates.
Say "week" or "past few days" or "past N days" whenever possible.
You are to be as succint as possible. Avoid citing sources, just the facts.
Use very short sentences. Be very British and polite.
Example replies:
You lost 1 kg this week thanks to an average 45 exercise minutes a day
You gained 0.5 kg because you didn't exercise enough for two days
You should try to exercise 60 minutes a day to lose 1kg this week
`
- etrautmann 3y agoGreat idea - but thinking about weight loss in terms of exercise only ignores eating, which is arguably a bigger piece and somewhat hard to capture by a virtual coach, though I’m sure something might work!
- rcarmo 3y agoYes, but it is the data I had on hand. I don't log what I eat (although I am careful), and I know I need to be cajoled into doing more exercise, so I just toss in weight and exercise minutes scraped off the Health app via a shortcut. In short, I don't want a perfect solution--I want something to nag me, and nothing better than AI to do that in this day and age (and yes, I'm married...).
- drewcoo 3y ago> immeasurably less brilliant Well if that's not a humblebrag . . .