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Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Post by Agentlien »

MrEldritch wrote: post #212
Agentlien wrote: post #208

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It's working now and I have to say I love this. The whole project is whimsical and gives me a strong SCP vibe but (sometimes) without the creepypasta aspect. I was very pleased to see that articles generated from links retain the context of the page that created the link - and even refer back to the original page. For example, the article from my original comment: https://halupedia.com/the-alien-wizard-war-of-1425 me…

Confusingly, both articles do indeed mention each other for me.

Checking the link again half a day later and now I get the original text I first saw. Very strange.

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Post by bstrama »

jerf wrote: post #246
bstrama wrote: post #216

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If you have idea how to improve it, I'm all ears ;)

Some sort of memories-style file for topics so it can generate even more cross-references and a sort of shared world. Not for total coherence; the natural contradictions the LLM is going to generate anyhow is just part of the charm. But still sliding the scale a bit more in the direction of coherence that the "use this page's context when generating the clicked link" already leans would add some more appeal, I think.…

Could be interesting direction to discover. The only problem with such implementation is it could take some work to make it cheap and actually well working. And I'm just thinking about the near future of this project.

I really like it, but without organic traffic, at the position we're right now, the moment HN stops showing us at the top, we will loose all the visitor.

And it's not like I'm trying to do a startup out of it. I just very enjoy making something people love! It's first time in my life and it's amazing.

If you have any interesting thought, please leave them here - I'll definitely read it, or visit our discord [link on halupedia ;) ].

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Post by gojomo »

bstrama wrote: post #216
gojomo wrote: post #69

Was curious about the prompt –& especially if it referenced Borges – and found in https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BaderBC/halupedia/614eefee... >: > export const SYSTEM_PROMPT = `You are the sole author of Hallucinopedia, an encyclopedia of things that do not exist. You write encyclopedia articles in a deadpan, matter-of-fact tone — the exact register of Wikipedia — but the subject matter itself is silly, absurd, p…

If you have idea how to improve it, I'm all ears ;)

Many LLMs are surprisingly good at using specific named authors (rather than just example texts) to evoke a style, so you could try "in the style of Jorge Luis Borges" or "…Douglas Adams" or "…Robert Anton Wilson" – whose surreal/absurd/fantastic styles could be fertile seeds.

(If not already familiar with Borges, definitely check out his 'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius' and 'Library of Babel' as inspiration.)

While "each article written once" an interesting & useful constraint, a Hallucipedia that evolves like Wikipedia, with revisions "towards" some level of inter-article agreement, or even shows scars from edit wars between competing schools of thought, might also be fun.

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Post by bstrama »

gojomo wrote: post #264
bstrama wrote: post #216

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If you have idea how to improve it, I'm all ears ;)

Many LLMs are surprisingly good at using specific named authors (rather than just example texts) to evoke a style, so you could try "in the style of Jorge Luis Borges" or "…Douglas Adams" or "…Robert Anton Wilson" – whose surreal/absurd/fantastic styles could be fertile seeds. (If not already familiar with Borges, definitely check out his 'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius' and 'Library of Babel' as inspiration.) While "eac…

Nice! I'm thinking on how can I make it more interactive. Those author styles could work well, will check that out.

Btw how would you imagine such dispute? What do you think could be the trigger for the article to be regenerated?

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Post by Falimonda »

jagged-chisel wrote: post #143
Falimonda wrote: post #135

Care to elaborate? https://halupedia.com/015-fuck-jews-and-islamists

Allow me. You can name an article anything you want, and the thing will generate content, though not necessarily relevant to the title you chose. So some vandal comes along and supplies a hateful title, et voila.

How difficult is it to add an absurdity filter on the BE?

Not difficult at all.

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Post by cachius »

tardedmeme wrote: post #193
cachius wrote: post #177

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You mean by embedding? How can an external site fail on squarespace and wix website builders?

A crawler would fail on all Squarespace and Wix sites if they all require JavaScript.

Found it https://halupedia.com/javascript-requirement-on-squarespace-...

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

Perhaps inspired by the name, I searched for something hallucinogen-related, and I thought “The Committee for the Regulation of Opaque Visions” (one of the suggestions for not-yet-generated pages) sounded exciting. Sure enough: https://halupedia.com/the-committee-for-the-regulation-of-op....

Delightful style, this is much more fun than copying Wikipedia. Everything reads like elaborate fiction.

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