Interesting that you also used Elixir. It's also quite interesting contrasting your approach to OP's. Was there a specific reason that you chose Elixir?
Eh, Elixir has just become my go-to for personal projects. GenServers, pattern matching, releases, being able to pop a shell into my program, the beautiful colors of the IEx shell... I miss all these things when choosing other languages. I also planned on eventually integrating it with a chatbot of mine which is also written in Elixir.
I'm glad to see Dr. Wang is still doing well. I had the pleasure of interviewing him for my high school journalism class back in 2015. Cool to see how far we've come since then.
Not an API, but still doable to a certain scale. I've gotten image input to work with my bot. Apple once temporarily banned me for suspicious activity but after a quick call to support they lifted it. If I got more traffic maybe they'd ban it again, I'm not sure.
You can text !help to sue [at] robertism.com to demo if you're interested.
My Pilot vanishing broke on me within about 2 months of use, sadly. I've since purchased a Sailor 1911 demonstrator which writes super smoothly. It's been my main pen for the past couple years, love it.
I’ve found my VP (which I like a lot though) dries up very quickly. I recently got a Lamy Dialog and it behaves way better (and even though it looks bulky it is a joy to use). For more “casual” (throw-in-the-bag) I really dig the plasticky Pelican Twists (they feel extremely comfortable, I have 3 or 4) and a trusty Kaweco Liliput in brass I always carry on my backpack.
I added gpt to a bot of mine for Telegram and Discord a few weeks ago. I'm constantly amazed at how the littlest of things can spawn so many new opportunities for inside jokes and meta humor.
There's a game script I've tried writing a few times but never gotten far on. When I found this paper a few weeks ago my first idea was to see if it could help. I followed the prompt instructions using davinci-002, spending about $0.36 in total, and was a little disappointed in the results. Granted, to save credits, I deleted my previous inputs each time, so when it got to generating dialog for each of the scenes, "previous beat:" wasn't quite enough context to prevent lines from repeating themselves. I suppose these professional writers have better vision than I do if they think they can "take it to Netflix with a few edits". Maybe I'll try it again with ChatGPT.
The best AI written stories I've read have been in the character.ai chat rooms. The dialogue is amazingly natural. Just this morning I created a character of a disgraced syrup mascot out of two sentences from old advertisements. Auntie talked about noodling for catfish with a Gawr Gura bot until I was crying from laughter. Last week I made Gura talk with a "human" Mark Zuckerberg until I started hiccuping from laughter. Maybe it's my just my sense of humor.
Btw, did anyone else try to reproduce the results themselves prior to this tool? The PDF formatting was a little wonky so I tried seeing if anyone posted the plaintext prompts anywhere, only to find zero results on the internet. I'm thankful for the work being done here and will be following this closely. I wish I could have seen the plays live!
