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by folli 1286 days ago
Completely off topic and sorry for stalking you: but your account has been on radio silence for more than 10 years. Anyway, welcome back!

How does nightcap guru work? You just prepend something like "write an interpretation of following dream" to the text and send it to OpenAIs API?
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matthewslotkin 1286 days ago
i have a few accounts by accident... it is a coincidence i posted from this one!

i'd like to think i did a bit more work than that :). gotta get the prompt just right!

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byrnehollander 1286 days ago
Out of curiosity, how much work was it to figure out what prompt worked best? And what was the process for figuring it out? Do you have different prompts based on the length of the input? I've been wanting to make an app with GPT-3 so any advice would be appreciated

As for the website, I really like the loading gem! And tiny design nit: it could be helpful to add a hover state to the stuff in the bottom nav. I was curious what the bottom left tab is (dream log?) but it just takes me to the sign in page.

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matthewslotkin 1286 days ago
a lot of trial and error. need to follow folks discussing prompt design to find out what kinds of things will work. no substitute for trying many examples.

appreciate the design feedback! lots of room for improvement on the overall look and feel for sure. good idea to provide hover states. and yes! it is a dream log!

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