Readit Newsizaidi commented on Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs? · Posted by u/break_the_bank
I was holding a free screening of a short film I made, and as an alternative to Eventbrite and the like, I built a simple SMS-based ticket reservation system that used GPT-4 to read and respond to messages. People interested in attending would text a number and their messages were routed by Twilio to my Node.js app, which in turn sent them to GPT to generate a response. The LLM was instructed to provide a structured JSON of each reservation once the person gave their name and the number of the seats they wanted. Worked very smoothly and only took an afternoon to build. Would've been infinitely more tedious if I had to worry about parsing messages with my own code.
Does "per broadcast episode" not mean "per episode that was broadcast"? The irregular verb "broadcast" is the same whether present or past tense. Or is there some definition of "broadcast" specified at the top of the contract to make sure it's not interpreted as a past-tense verb? Or something? That said, good luck fighting it in court regardless I guess...
"Broadcast" in this context means over-the-air terrestrial television, i.e. free networks like NBC, ABC and CBS. Sci-Fi (now Syfy) is a cable channel and writers have historically been paid less for cable shows.
izaidi commented on Netflix to let viewers pick how TV episodes and movies will end bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mmaanniisshh
This sounds awful. This is a problem I have with a lot of Netflix's content. It's nobody's baby. There's no singular vision behind it where a person came up with a story they want to tell. Instead it's algorithmically generated like "Here's some things that popular things have in common, write a story around these elements". That can get something passable sometimes, but mostly not.
Most great art is the product of one mind at the most basic level. Of course with something like a TV show or movie there are thousands of people involved, but there has to a captain to the ship, so to speak. Otherwise it just floats around aimlessly because multiple people can be pulling it in different directions.
It's riskier, because if that person is bad, the whole thing is going to turn out bad, but it's the only way to get something truly good.
That's not how Netflix content is written. There are sometimes algorithm-driven decisions on which projects to acquire and finance, but once they buy something, the creators have full control to execute their vision -- much moreso than with a conventional network or studio.
izaidi commented on Show HN: Txxt.app – an ultra simple SMS notepad txxt.app... · Posted by u/izaidi
It would be nice if it could tell me my region (India) is not supported before taking my phone number.
Nice website though.
Apologies, there was an oversight on my part on setting the geo permissions after pushing an update. I'd noticed initially that welcome messages sent to +91 numbers weren't getting delivered, but with the latest changes it should hopefully work.
izaidi commented on Show HN: Txxt.app – an ultra simple SMS notepad txxt.app... · Posted by u/izaidi
izaidi commented on Show HN: Txxt.app – an ultra simple SMS notepad txxt.app... · Posted by u/izaidi
izaidi commented on Show HN: Txxt.app – an ultra simple SMS notepad txxt.app... · Posted by u/izaidi
This doesn't seem to be working for me. I am in the UK. I enter my number, then receive a text:
> Hi! This is txxt. Send messages to this number to see them on your page. If you didn't ask for this, ignore it!
I then reply with:
> Reply
but it doesn't show up on the webpage. If I reload the page it says:
> Looks like you were sent a welcome text but didn't finish setting up your account. > > Reply to the text and you'll see your message(s) show up here. > > Click here to be sent another text.
Hey, sorry it didn't work! I just pushed an update that uses a new UK-based number for users in that region, so it should work now. Let me know if you try it again.
izaidi commented on Show HN: Txxt.app – an ultra simple SMS notepad txxt.app... · Posted by u/izaidi
Same from Mexico
I think this may be due to a limitation of Twilio's toll-free US/Canada numbers -- looks like they sometimes have issues with global SMS. It should work if I set up a standard local US number and use that for international users. Thanks for spotting that bug!
izaidi commented on Show HN: Txxt.app – an ultra simple SMS notepad txxt.app... · Posted by u/izaidi
Is this a worldwide service or US-only?
It should work in nearly all countries -- anywhere that Twilio can send SMS messages. The app's number is based in North America so there might be international texting charges depending on your provider, but I'm planning to set up more numbers based in different regions.