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Re: Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?

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Post by zblesk »

I do have some, the most interesting ones running in Huginn https://github.com/huginn/huginn

I use it for some data gathering and most importantly, notifications and a 'personal newsletter'.

There are quite a few people in this thread that wrote things that send notifications to them; my setup kinda goes the other direction, because I don't want to be constantly spammed and nagged by my own bots.

So for instance, there are some software projects I want to keep up with, but I neither want to be interrupted by notifications, nor do I want to have a bunch of spam in my RSS reader. So I set Huginn up to watch some RSSs, some webs and instagrams and things like that, collects them, and then sends me one summary mail every two days.

Similarly, I also get one Pushbullet notification with all the headlines from a news portal every day.

Huginn is great, you guys.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?

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Post by mxab »

zblesk wrote: post #41

I do have some, the most interesting ones running in Huginn https://github.com/huginn/huginn I use it for some data gathering and most importantly, notifications and a 'personal newsletter'. There are quite a few people in this thread that wrote things that send notifications to them; my setup kinda goes the other direction, because I don't want to be constantly spammed and nagged by my own bots. So for instance, the…

How do you run huginn? I've been thinking about setting it up on a raspberry pi 4 but I'm not sure whether that's a good fit performance-wise.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?

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Post by yunruse »

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…

If there’s one thing that always annoyed me about the Github commit display it’s that… well, it displays commits, and not a much better (if not perfect) metric such as LoC. Depending on the feature or volatility of the branch my own commits can vary wildly in how granular they are.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?

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Post by passivepinetree »

yunruse wrote: post #43
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…

If there’s one thing that always annoyed me about the Github commit display it’s that… well, it displays commits, and not a much better (if not perfect) metric such as LoC. Depending on the feature or volatility of the branch my own commits can vary wildly in how granular they are.

Definitely. It's not indicative of any sort of quality, which naturally makes it fun to game! I randomized the amount of commits on each day so my graph has varying shades of color!

Re: Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?

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Post by passivepinetree »

yen223 wrote: post #13

I've got a bank account that offers bonus interest if I use the debit card five times within a month. I don't like to use debit cards, so I built a bot that automatically makes five $1 charges to that debit card.

How did you do this? Does your bank have APIs you can code against? Did you use other (Paypal?) APIs?

Re: Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?

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Post by _5659 »

xcubic wrote: post #37
_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?

Yeah, I forked them over onto my github profile. The poetry model is available on Gwern's website.

https://www.gwern.net/GPT-2

https://github.com/odomojuli/slack-gpt2-poetry

You can train your own GPT-2 bot using minimaxir's GPT2-simple

https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple

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