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Re:Show HN: Geppetto, an open source AI companion for your S... by wslh on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @07:08PM (#39282772)
Look at the video please. We are using it at work. For example, we have a #learning-and-teaching Slack channel when the team members ask and answer questions. Now, you can ask questions to @geppetto which makes all the discussion more appealing and everybody in the channel can continue the thread. This includes generating images.

Also, have you look at the size and quality of the code? It is enough small so that other people can fork and play with it without requiring a lot of knowledge.

One of the code reviewers is a top Python community participant though.

Re:Show HN: Geppetto, an open source AI companion for your S... by 2024throwaway on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @09:22PM (#39283697)
I did watch the video.

> which makes all the discussion more appealing

I have never experienced AI making anything more appealing. YMMV. I also have no need to generate images.

> have you look at the size and quality of the code? It is enough small

I agree it is a very small code base, in that it does basically nothing. Not sure how I'm supposed to view this as a positive. As far as quality, it looks like pretty much all the other python code I've seen.

> One of the code reviewers is a top Python community participant though.

Cool.

Re:Show HN: Geppetto, an open source AI companion for your S... by wslh on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @04:51AM (#39286534)
It seems you don't need Geppetto. Which is fine.

We need it and for several reasons (e.g. security) we write it from scratch.

The use case for integrating Slack with ChatGPT is well known, so it is useful for several organizations. Enough.

Re:Show HN: Geppetto, an open source AI companion for your S... by 2024throwaway on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @12:48PM (#39291648)
I have actually built a tool very similar, slack <-> openai interface.

Except it does things like augment the input prompts, and can perform additional action based on the outputs.

So no, I don't have a need for something as simple as a ChatGPT pass through.

You might get a better reaction if you weren't so defensive over a sub 500 LOC project.

Re:Show HN: Geppetto, an open source AI companion for your S... by wslh on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @05:43PM (#39295338)
The sub 500 LOC is a positive thing. If someone is looking for code to fork, learn and/or copy 500 is ideal instead of knowing a lot of details of more complex piece of code.

I receive a good reaction though.

Re:Show HN: Geppetto, an open source AI companion for your S... by aiisdoomed on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @01:32PM (#39292305)
> makes all the discussion more appealing

Yuk.

> One of the code reviewers is a top Python community participant though.

Double yuk.

Re:Show HN: Geppetto, an open source AI companion for your S... by wslh on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @03:42PM (#39294026)
Something to add?
Re:Show HN: Geppetto, an open source AI companion for your S... by netsharc on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @01:57PM (#39292663)
Ahaha, the video is a GIF one can't fast-forward through, at least it simulates in real time the long wait for the generated image. I've seen enough marketing stuff that I'd like to tell you, that long wait in your advertisement will bore the hell out of people.
Re:Show HN: Geppetto, an open source AI companion for your S... by netsharc on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @01:57PM (#39292667)
Ahaha, the video (on the github readme) is a GIF one can't fast-forward through, at least it simulates in real time the long wait for the generated image (and on your website it's 20 seconds, 33% of the whole video!). I've seen enough marketing stuff that I'd like to tell you, that long wait in your advertisement will bore the hell out of people.