5 comments

  • dintech 15 hours 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.
    • turtlebits 2 hours ago
      I just built one (nfc music player) with an old rpi, rc522 nfc reader and a cheap usb speaker)
    • conception 2 hours ago
      Mighty players work great for on the go consumption as well.
    • didgeoridoo 14 hours 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.
  • x______________ 16 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 14 hours 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.

    • JeffMcCune 12 hours ago
      It’s anthropomorphism taking over. I pretend I’m talking with a colleague when I do this sort of thing.
  • xandrius 18 hours ago
    Great way to allow your kid to play the Frozen song on repeat every hour of the day :D
    • JeffMcCune 12 hours ago
      That was the first album on it for sure and yes he repeats it constantly. Luckily the speaker is in his room.

      He’s got a yoto too but won’t wear the headphones, so this has been a nice compromise.

    • didgeoridoo 14 hours ago
      In my experience there is no way to avoid this short of eliminating every trace of copper and silicon from your home.
      • xandrius 12 hours ago
        To be fair, if they manage to play the Frozen song on a classic Game boy color, I'd let them.
  • Disposal8433 13 hours ago
    The C++ code is bad. Do you have any experience with that language? Why did you decide to use it as is?
    • JeffMcCune 12 hours ago
      I don’t. It works, reliably enough that my son hasn’t had any issues using it for a week. What’s bad about it?
    • micromacrofoot 13 hours ago
      if it works, it works
      • Disposal8433 13 hours ago
        I know. But it's not a good advertisement for all those AI agents.
        • Minor49er 12 hours ago
          Seems like a great advertisement if OP got something working with relatively little time and effort. What's specifically bad about the code?
  • Tade0 20 hours ago
    I love the user story descriptions.