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Re: Launch HN: Issen (YC F24) – Personal AI language tutor

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You should try re-generating a custom curriculum from the settings, and there you can prompt it to create specific lesson types.

Which specific settings should I modify?

You can do so under Settings > Regenerate Curriculum, where you get a dialog box to give your feedback to re-create a new curriculum for you.

Re: Launch HN: Issen (YC F24) – Personal AI language tutor

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I want to build some AI tutors at home to help my kids with some of their school subjects and interests. I help them with subjects I know, but for other subjects I often do not have enough background. What are you best tips/ideas/design patterns you learned when making this app?

Some random tips which could help you - Don't go over 10k tokens in the prompts as the intelligence and memory degrades - Summarize sessions and save the summaries, potentially summarize the summaries as well - use VAPI or realtime api if you want to build fast. Building the full pipeline takes a while - try out different models and see how personality varies. Our favorite is gpt4.1 with temperature 1. - goal system.…

thank you
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