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Show HN: My tool to rewrite Wikipedia stories for kids

23 points| ckrapu | 3 years ago |wikistorytime.com | reply

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[+] ckrapu|3 years ago|reply
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|3 years ago|reply
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.

[+] bacchusracine|3 years ago|reply
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|3 years ago|reply
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.

[+] fluidmech|3 years ago|reply
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.
[+] flucosemonitor|3 years ago|reply
Is this meant to be educational? How about adding a feature to customize the length (in words or minutes) of the story?
[+] ckrapu|3 years ago|reply
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.
[+] _the_inflator|3 years ago|reply
What I really like is the Vocabulary section under a story. Really cool, even for adults.
[+] expectant|3 years ago|reply
I am also expecting my first child (hence the username). Love this idea!
[+] duckbills|3 years ago|reply
Giving you a vote because I like that duck image. Is that AI-generated?
[+] ckrapu|3 years ago|reply
Yes! It is from DALLE-2.