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Show HN: My tool to rewrite Wikipedia stories for kids

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I’m about to have my first child and I want to read to my baby. I only have so much patience for kids books, and I want to tell my kid about the real world. This site is a light UI over some prompt engineering to parse and rewrite Wikipedia articles. I’m open to any feedback! I’m not trying to market or monetize anything - I just want to get parents to read more to their kids.

Hey great idea!

Would you mind sharing the prompts you used? I'd like to try it with my little one and play around with the prompts further.

Wow...I love that this exists. While I would need to check it before reading to a child for bias (Wikipedia's NPOV has been a joke for a long while now) this is an excellent idea for those seeking to both entertain and inform their children.

Oh man, I’ve tried so hard to figure out how to prompt engineer the subtler things out.

One of the hardest topics I came across was Mardi Gras. No matter what I did, GPT always wanted to (1) comment on how women like to flash while drunk in the streets and (2) how sternly it disapproved of this practice, violating instructions I had for sexual or vulgar content AND moral prescriptions.

Neat and lightweight, I like it. Glad there’s a tool for more interaction between parents and kids. Seems like every other app or device out there is meant to keep kids quiet so parents can go do other things.

Is this meant to be educational? How about adding a feature to customize the length (in words or minutes) of the story?

That’s not too much of a lift aside from working around the maximum tokens limit on the GPT API. Wikipedia articles are long enough to eat up the total token count just with the prompt.

What I really like is the Vocabulary section under a story. Really cool, even for adults.

I am also expecting my first child (hence the username). Love this idea!

Giving you a vote because I like that duck image. Is that AI-generated?

Yes! It is from DALLE-2.

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