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What does it do?

I built a bot that runs every 2 weeks, scrapes my local movie theater's currently playing titles, runs them against rotten tomatoes to filter out movies rated below 85%, then looks them up on youtube and posts the trailers to my discord server

How did you make it?

Python script that runs in google cloud functions, triggered on a bi-weekly schedule

How much time you spent making it?

An evening

How often do you use it?

Every two weeks

Re:LLM that can call multiple tool APIs with one request on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @02:46AM (#40714751)
You don't need to use langchain with Cohere, it's just nice for demos since Langchain comes with pre-built tools.

Check out the examples here: https://docs.cohere.com/docs/multi-step-tool-use

and this notebook https://github.com/cohere-ai/notebooks/blob/main/notebooks/a...

Re:Show HN: AI generated Magic The Gathering cards on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @01:53PM (#31414174)
Minimalism is all the rage these days!
Re:Show HN: AI generated Magic The Gathering cards on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @01:06PM (#31413573)
We are experimenting with a deck printing API! We printed a couple of decks and played with them - it was really delightful and fun!
Re:Show HN: AI generated Magic The Gathering cards on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @01:05PM (#31413564)
Image loading is down right now, Wombo is throwing more GPUs at it!

Ask HN: Transcribe bass guitar parts from stems?

I play in a rock band, and people often ask for bass tabs to my parts. I was wondering if anyone knows of a good way of auto generating notes or tabs from isolated bass guitar tracks. I tried some tools, but the results were really bad.(https://rickyhan.com/jekyll/update/2020/05/23/algorithm-for-fretboard-arrangement.html)You would think since bass guitar plays one note at a time, it would be...

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Re:Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations on Sunday October 17, 2021 @03:05AM (#28894549)
I always thought the skip button would get treated as a dislike
Re:Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @01:27AM (#28453388)
All of us in the band are engineers (I work at Snapchat) and we take the band super seriously and make time for it
The text examples on your site are not great copy. “Something goofed” - “goofing” is something humans do, it’s not a synonym for “broke”.

“We use cookies on Fridays to boost employee morale” - I know it’s meant to sound cute, but the way it’s worded it’s giving me sweatshop vibes.

I’d revisit the text examples used throughout the website, because the idea behind the product is actually neat!

Re:Windows 11 will create heaps of needless trash on Sunday June 27, 2021 @07:08PM (#27656323)
Based on that article, every MacBook Air released since 2008 will receive a patch update and every MacBook Air released since 2015 will support OSX Monterey. Is that not reasonable?
Re:Stride Game Engine on Friday June 18, 2021 @10:57AM (#27551036)
Curious - how come so many engines don’t support Mac? I am constantly baffled by how few games exist for my MacBook Pro.
Re:The website obesity crisis (2015) on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @11:33AM (#27356052)
The author calls out the Apple Watch review website from The Verge for hijacking navigation, but honestly I remember reading this review and being really delighted by all the magical effects.

http://www.theverge.com/a/apple-watch-review

Ask HN: What's your experience with the Apple Appstore?

In a recent post related to the Hey app rejection from the Apple Appstore, John Gruber (Daring Fireball) writes:"To say that “many developers do not want to speak out for fear of falling afoul of Apple” is an understatement. Almost none do. And one thing I’ve learned this week — mostly via private communication, because, again, they fear speaking out publicly — is that there are a lot of...

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Why is it a horrible place to work?
Re:Show HN: Paperman – LaTeX editor with a Markdown feel on Saturday October 25, 2014 @05:02AM (#8507645)
I use something identical to this: https://stackedit.io/
Re:Show HN: Meteor Based Multiplayer Ultimate Tic Tac Toe on Thursday October 23, 2014 @04:06AM (#8497146)
This is awesome. You should implement a ranking system (similar to hearthstone), and have people climb the ranks
Re:Introducing Google Helpouts on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @02:24AM (#6673686)
Skype used to have something like this in 2006-ish...
Re:I failed a Twitter interview on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @03:59AM (#6640099)
Yeah, I received a rejection letter the next day. Solving it on my own definitely made me feel better though!
Re:I failed a Twitter interview on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @03:47AM (#6640068)
Yeah, Kite is being very unreliable :( I keep manually restarting the server.