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Show HN: Destiny – Claude Code's fortune Teller skill
Destiny is the Claude Code's plugin that gives you a real fortune reading.
Type /destiny to see today's destiny!
It uses the actual classical East Asian astrology system. You enter your birthday once, then /destiny gives you today's reading anytime.
Two layers, kept honest:
1. The numbers (your eight-character birth chart, today's day pillar, the hexagram for the moment, five-element relationships) are computed by a Python script. Same person + same day = identical output. You can verify against any traditional calendar source.
2. The prose (today's stars, character sketch, life arc, advice) is written by Claude, applying centuries-old reading conventions to that fixed data. Not LLM-hallucinated horoscope.
If you have fun with it, a star would mean a lot.
- Amber-chen 6mo ago[flagged]
- awakeasleep 7mo agoCould you flesh out the installation instructions a little more? I haven't used the plugin marketplace yet, and don't have a /plugin command. Claude itself is not able to tell me how to install it.
- xodn348 7mo ago[dead]
- xodn348 7mo agoJust edited readme as well
- svachalek 7mo agoThis is for Claude Code. It's not hard to install/run Claude Code but it might be a little intimidating if you're not used to command lines. I think in the regular Claude app, you can set up something like this as a "project" with a custom prompt. Claude might be able to pull the prompting from Github and convert it.
- xodn348 7mo ago[flagged]
- awakeasleep 7mo agoThere is a claude code in the claude gui as well, i think everyone must be saying to use the tui.
- treexs 7mo agointeresting, but I really wonder how big the audience is of people wanting to know their fortune while claude coding within the claude code interface
- xodn348 7mo agoThis is my fun project! Not a profitable entity. Thanks
- tomaytotomato 7mo agoI would recommend you consider a Claude code hook, you could then specify a particular part of the agent lifecycle to invoke the fortune as an alternative to manual invocation of the skill. You could do it on `SessionStart` to give a horoscope. I am looking at making a skill to test random programming knowledge, so I don't forget that an Integer is 32bits (at least in Java)
- xodn348 7mo agoAuto-run on session start (optional) added. Please check it out!
- babblingfish 7mo agofeature request: marriage palace built using two user profiles
- xodn348 7mo ago/destiny compat <partner birth> <city> <m|f> do it now.
- hansmayer 7mo agoSince you seem to be mentioning 'destiny', 'life arc' and 'advice' -it may be wise to put in some kind of a legal disclaimer for your own sake -- the use of LLM toys for advice about life and similar have led to some really bad outcomes, even suicides as we know now.
- xodn348 7mo agofair points. I will take a look at it
- lanyard-textile 7mo agoIf you act like a doctor and someone gets hurt from your acting, that's the main trouble. I am not sure the same standard would apply for a fortune teller :)
- chaqchase 7mo agoCurious what prompt boundaries you're using. It's the kind of thing that's fun until it quietly invents details.
- xodn348 7mo agoI actually did not use prompts here. It is actual calculation from the python lunar and it cast the result to LLM which you use. The LLM has the old books such as giving you your fortune following lunar year calculation. Have a fun with it!
- sudosteph 7mo agoI am resisting the urge to be very snarky. But how do you know that Claude's hallucinated horoscopes are any less accurate than traditional techniques? Have you A/B tested them?
- xodn348 7mo ago[flagged]
- throwaway613746 7mo ago[dead]
- mikestorrent 7mo agoI once did an exercise to review the previous week's horoscope and grade each sign on how closely it corresponded to my actual week. I found no consistency whatsoever, so I'm not just miscategorized into the wrong sign, but in fact none of them had any predictive value. It might be fun to broaden that out to other sources of horoscope than my local Coffee News, maybe a better mystic is what I need
- chakintosh 7mo agoI thought anthropic is tightening usage but it seems people have nothing to do with their tokens …
- xodn348 7mo agoI'm doing what people wants. Thanks!
- throwatdem12311 7mo agoYes this is exactly what we need — the hallucinating dunning-Krueger inducing psychosis machine spewing made up pseudoscientific nonsense. Bravo.
- xodn348 7mo agohaha great prose
- throwatdem12311 7mo agoPeople have been goaded into killing themselves or others by LLMs so I don’t take kindly to third rate hucksters abusing the behaviours that lead to it with these tools for a laugh.
- Jtarii 7mo agoI don't think it's that deep. Seems like a bit of an overexageration to a bit of fun.
- throwatdem12311 7mo agoHave you ever had to deal with someone whose brain has been completely cooked by LLM induced psychosis? Because I have — it destroys people’s lives completely unnecessarily. So I will not apologize for having a visceral disgust towards people and behaviours that will amplify these very real harms for their own personal gratification and online clout chasing.
- _pdp_ 7mo agoLooks like a supply chain risk to me.
- xodn348 7mo agoI did not understood the meaning of your words.
- Balvarez 7mo agofor what it's worth I think this is fun. I'm not into this sort of thing but it's fun none the less.
- xodn348 7mo agoThis was what I was targeting. Thanks
- neonstatic 7mo agoNow the call center cranks will have even better scripts to read. Perfect...
- xodn348 7mo agoLet me have fun with it. Thanks
- neonstatic 7mo agoI'm not trying to spoil it!
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- mavelikara 7mo agoLove to see the evals on this one!
- ggnore7452 7mo agoIsn't that the memory files are loading by default?
- Rekindle8090 6mo ago[dead]
- gorlokthedev 6mo agoi wonder how the output will be in different LLM
- tokyoproductj 6mo agoSo the astrology is deterministic, and the interpretation is probabilistic. Which is interesting, because that’s exactly where most of the perceived “accuracy” tends to come from.
- rapjay 6mo ago[dead]
- rapjay 6mo ago[dead]