Neat! Putting in reference books gives you a nice overview of the book's contents. Fun to think of database transactions as a character with relationships.
https://austen.pages.dev/c2276990-1f2a-40e6-bd26-0cabb55d713...
Show HN: I built an app to generate story relationships using Mermaidjs
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Re: Show HN: I built an app to generate story relationships using Mermaidjs
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
The thought of The Kingkiller Chronicle hasn't crossed my mind in many years, and now I have renewed sadness that the story will never be finished. :'(
Pat Rothfuss is still working on it, last I heard.
This is one of those sentences whose meaning subtly changes depending on which word you put the emphasis on :-)
Re: Show HN: I built an app to generate story relationships using Mermaidjs
#33I tried Circe.
It said Circe --Daughter--> Helios. So I thought oh it's supposed to be "Circe is Helios' daughter" but then it had Circe --Brother--> Aeetes and Circe --Mentor-->Hermes.
Re: Show HN: I built an app to generate story relationships using Mermaidjs
#34LLMs make it really trivial to work with MermaidJS. Just yesterday I used it to sketch out some business logic. Seeing the whole flowchart like that helped me catch some corner cases.
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#35I tried Circe. It said Circe --Daughter--> Helios. So I thought oh it's supposed to be "Circe is Helios' daughter" but then it had Circe --Brother--> Aeetes and Circe --Mentor-->Hermes.
Yup those Greek gods were nothing but drama and problems.
Re: Show HN: I built an app to generate story relationships using Mermaidjs
#36could be cool to have pride and prejudice in the examples in the main page
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#37Just tried with « Time out of joint » from Philip K Dick, and it got it right… but only the first half of the story! Guess, there is no spoiler then
Re: Show HN: I built an app to generate story relationships using Mermaidjs
#38could be cool to have pride and prejudice in the examples in the main page
Fair point. I’ll add it.
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#39LLMs make it really trivial to work with MermaidJS. Just yesterday I used it to sketch out some business logic. Seeing the whole flowchart like that helped me catch some corner cases.
Which cheap LLMs are good for Mermaid, and to sketch graphs from code? I had to switch between the cheap LLMs and "tutor" them a bit to edit Mermaid in a Markdown file, although Claude seems perfect.
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#40I tried One Hundred Years of Solitude, which has a family tree before main text. Wish the app mentioned the 17 illegitimate sons, all with same name Aureliano.