Ask HN: Do you have personal bots? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?

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Post by o-__-o » Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 8:06 AM UTC

ars wrote: post #24

hkhanna wrote: post #17

I have a bot that polls my Airtable list of birthdays and if it is someone's birthday, it sends me a push notification via IFTTT at 7am that morning so I can call or text them first thing in the morning. https://github.com/hkhanna/birthday_notify

Wouldn't it be easier to just make a yearly repeating calendar entry with a reminder?

Lol I started doing this two years ago and now I have a reminder for all of my friends, family, uncles, aunts, nieces and nephews. It really makes a person feel good to send them a text on their bday

Re: Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?

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Post by o-__-o » Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 8:14 AM UTC

I wrote a bot that watched twitter for stock symbols and then applied a social sentiment index based on the tone of the tweet. The historical stock quotes were downloaded, and the stock was added to a polling system to capture future quotes. The social sentiment could then be turned into an indicator to determine when to buy/sell especially if used with other indicators.

Well I forgot about the system then twitter changed their api rules. When I went back it had captured data for 2 years. I backtested the trades and I found that it sucked for indexes/etfs, worked mmokay for pop stocks (think Tesla, bynd, suneq) but really shined for pump and dump stocks. With Twitter out I added stocktwits, Reddit, and tradingview. I now have twitter again and all of these feeds are run on various dedicated servers feeding into a mothership

NB: the system was originally written for a stock pumper who disappeared after a month of development

Re: Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?

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Post by londons_explore » Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 8:29 AM UTC

passivepinetree wrote: post #2

I only run a small one for kicks: it updates my github page with a dummy commit each day. They got rid of streaks, but I still leave it running out of some misplaced sense of sentimentality. A few years ago, a friend and I built one that would scan twitter for tweets in the vein of “like to win $ITEM” or “RT to win $ITEM.” Our bot would automatically perform the requested action, and then text me (via twilio) for eac…

I'm pretty sure you can just backdate commits for the same effect...

Re: Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?

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Post by alain_gilbert » Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 8:37 AM UTC

seanwilson wrote: post #25

I wrote a Chrome extension that checks websites for best practices: https://www.checkbot.io/ It acts like a search bot does and gives SEO advice.

I use your chrome extension and love it :)

I can recommend this chrome extension.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?

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Post by TheGrumpyBrit » Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 8:41 AM UTC

ethanpil wrote: post #22

passivepinetree wrote: post #2

I only run a small one for kicks: it updates my github page with a dummy commit each day. They got rid of streaks, but I still leave it running out of some misplaced sense of sentimentality. A few years ago, a friend and I built one that would scan twitter for tweets in the vein of “like to win $ITEM” or “RT to win $ITEM.” Our bot would automatically perform the requested action, and then text me (via twilio) for eac…

What about your prize bot violated Twitter policy?

Most likely rate limits

Re: Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?

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Post by Teledhil » Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 8:56 AM UTC

I made a bot that sent me alerts whenever La Resistencia, a Spanish TV show, had tickets available to be in the audience. It is a very popular show and tickets are usually available in their web for less than 5 minutes. I even made an app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.teledhil.la... It no longer works because they added a recaptcha.

I also have a chat bot based on megahal, a bot that downloads subtitles for my torrent videos. At work I made a bot connected to slack that alerted of some server issues.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?

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Post by xcubic » Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 9:17 AM UTC

_5659 wrote: post #16

I have three GPT-2 bots that hook up to Slack so I can pretend I have coworkers. One of them is general queries on the latest model, one is Gwern's poetry bot, and the third is trained on toxic/moderated comments and says only sadistic cruel things to me. I don't know why I built the last one.

Funny. Are they open source?

Re: Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?

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Post by happppy » Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 9:17 AM UTC

sayhitovincent wrote: post #9

To manage my wife's medication on the correct timeframes I built my own bot. It's connected to our normal day to day messenger channels so it's been nice and convenient. https://reminderbot.io

Where do you host your bot?

Re: Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?

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Post by xcubic » Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 9:21 AM UTC

seanwilson wrote: post #25

I wrote a Chrome extension that checks websites for best practices: https://www.checkbot.io/ It acts like a search bot does and gives SEO advice.

I know. I use it. Thank you very much

Re: Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?

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Post by spzb » Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 9:22 AM UTC

Does home automation count? I have an OpenHab/Node-Red setup that automatically turns on the dehumidifier if the indoor humidity goes above 60%, turns a light on a dusk and off at dawn and one that sends a notification to my phone when the tumble dryer finishes (because I tend to forget it and wonder where all my clean clothes have gone)