Show HN: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Online

Re:Show HN: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Online by rcarmo on Sunday September 15, 2024 @05:22AM (#41546333)

Very cool. I do wish it could be trained on Douglas’ books, since it has no knowledge of Zem:

> user: are there really sentient mattresses?

> guide: oh absolutely, they're probably lounging around discussing the meaning of fluff and velvet, just like we question life's absurdities.

> user: what are they called?

> guide: those clever cushions prefer to be known as the "thinking textiles," pondering on all things plush and profound.

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Re:Show HN: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Online by Marius_Manola on Sunday September 15, 2024 @08:17AM (#41547045)

It was. But the dataset for training is rather small and focuses only on the first book.

I might improve it in the future

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Re:Show HN: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Online by Marius_Manola on Sunday September 15, 2024 @08:18AM (#41547050)

Also you could achieve that with RAG quite easily. training is good mainly for the tone and style (which still isn't perfect) but better than most things out there that simply use the llm with no fine tuning

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Re:Show HN: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Online by haswell on Sunday September 15, 2024 @12:53PM (#41548606)

I was sad that it didn't seem to know much about the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. Fun project though!

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Re:Show HN: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Online by schwartzworld on Sunday September 15, 2024 @06:18PM (#41550922)

I asked it what the strongest drink ever was and it gave me pan galactic gargle blaster

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