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Re: Show HN: Trying to eat better? I built a nutrional assistant

#11

I keep seeing "Failed to generate content. Please try again.". It's a bit difficult for me to know what sort of questions I can ask this assistant. Maybe a few examples might help?

Exactly my experience.

On other hand eating better does not need many assistants. The less processed food is simply better. No sugar, adequate portion size, enough water.

Re: Show HN: Trying to eat better? I built a nutrional assistant

#12

Seems like a cool idea at a very high level, but I feel like the homepage needs a lot more context than what it has. How it works, what it does, best way to use it, etc. Also, just a heads up that the chat window is a bit broken on mobile. It has some weird scroll hijacking that breaks chats.

Is it a cool idea, though, to turn over your health to a system that's both nondeterministic and opaque?

Depends how it’s actually used. Again, without more context on the home page it’s hard tell. There is a chance you can use it in a way where you can feed it vague non identifying info and still get use from it.

Re: Show HN: Trying to eat better? I built a nutrional assistant

#13

> "BAZ-1, your nutrutional AI assistant" Nutritional. I created a recipe but I cannot scroll up (in Firefox) since it immediately skips back to the bottom, so I can't read all of it. Interesting idea though! I'll try it. Edit: the shopping part takes a while, then it works.

That's part of the caloric intake reduction strategy... Can't eat the ingredients you can't read in the recipe.

Re: Show HN: Trying to eat better? I built a nutrional assistant

#14
Lately I have been using ChatGPT for my meal planning. There are countless [1] threads on reddit on how to tailor this to your preference.

I went through a cut phase with it and it worked out great. I prefer it better than the popular one eatthismuch[2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTPromptGenius/comments/1hnjbm...

[2] eatthismuch.com

Re: Show HN: Trying to eat better? I built a nutrional assistant

#18

I’m interested based on the title but I have no idea how to use it. I think a placeholder prompt or basic instruction would go a long way, otherwise it just looks like a chatGPT clone

A chat interface seems like the wrong approach for something like this. This feels like an guided agent interface, the way we interact with nutrionists or personal trainers.

If you need help with these things, a blank page is a bad way to start.

Re: Show HN: Trying to eat better? I built a nutrional assistant

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post #18

I’m interested based on the title but I have no idea how to use it. I think a placeholder prompt or basic instruction would go a long way, otherwise it just looks like a chatGPT clone

A chat interface seems like the wrong approach for something like this. This feels like an guided agent interface, the way we interact with nutrionists or personal trainers. If you need help with these things, a blank page is a bad way to start.

It could also help to spell nutrition correctly.
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