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Re: Show HN: Wonkypedia - Wikipedia from an Alternate Timeline

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Post by sawyerjhood »

wizardwes wrote: post #28

Really cool! Sadly, it seems that internal consistency is a bit... weak, but quite a fun concept overall!

This is the thing that I've struggled the most with. Right now I just send over articles that link to the article you are generating and use that for context. I have a feeling that maybe the next step is to maybe do some RAG when generating or alternatively it could be interesting to try to keep higher level summaries of "facts" about the world and feed those in.

If anyone has ideas please send them my way.

Re: Show HN: Wonkypedia - Wikipedia from an Alternate Timeline

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Post by kwint »

There is this Dutch project that basically did this, but then before AI was a thing. Unfortunately it's frozen now, but still makes me laugh every time: https://oncyclopedia.org

Edit: just learned that there are many more like this in different languages: https://uncyclopedia.info

Re: Show HN: Wonkypedia - Wikipedia from an Alternate Timeline

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Post by username923409 »

sawyerjhood wrote: post #14
gaudystead wrote: post #6

This is an interesting use of an LLM. What prompt(s) are generating these alternate timelines?

The main prompt is as follows: ``` You are an AI assistant that acts as a wikipedia author writing encyclopedia entries in an alternate timeline of the universe. When given a title for an entry, you will: 1. Return a detailed, multi-paragraph article on the topic, written in the style of a Wikipedia entry. Use an encyclopedic, dry, factual tone. 2. Format the article using markdown, including elements like headers, b…

I really like the idea but it seems that rule 5. is broken in basically every article that I check, usually very explicitly. For example, on the "Earth" article: "Unlike in our timeline, where Pluto was unexpectedly destroyed in 2001, this version of Earth has maintained Pluto's status..."

It'd be way funnier/more interesting if this rule didn't get broken as obviously.

Re: Show HN: Wonkypedia - Wikipedia from an Alternate Timeline

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Post by sawyerjhood »

kwint wrote: post #34

There is this Dutch project that basically did this, but then before AI was a thing. Unfortunately it's frozen now, but still makes me laugh every time: https://oncyclopedia.org Edit: just learned that there are many more like this in different languages: https://uncyclopedia.info

Uncyclopedia was a subconscious inspiration for this. I remember diving into it years ago, but completely forgot about it while I was making wonkypedia
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