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pat-storyborn

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Hello! I’ve just launched the first Copilots Marketplace for parents and kids. Would appreciate any help
pat-storyborn··on What features would parents value in an AI storytelling/companion app for kids?
We already have this but can be improved based on your feedback: each character has a Name, an Avatar for chats, plus a Description and Behaviour in conversations. I suppose the Description could be split into subsections — for example, Physical Description, Background, and Quirks — to guide the user better instead of leaving it as a plain description.

Stories are build from components: characters, locations, and notes, but they also only have have names and description fields. So, it might be best to split those into subcomponents as well. Brilliant advice — thank you so much!

pat-storyborn··on Thoughts on using AI as a middleman in parenting
Well, The Boy Who Cried Wolf is, coincidentally, one of the stories I first recreated with TaleCraft. The coolest thing to me is refreshing what I think are dated stories from our childhood. I believe they can have a second youth in the era of generative content. I take the core of stories and mix them with others — this makes them interesting and challenging for me too. Again, AI is a tool, possibly the greatest one ever invented; it is up to us to use it to create a beautiful world for ourselves — but, as always, time will tell if our nature will prevail.
pat-storyborn··on Thoughts on using AI as a middleman in parenting
Thanks a lot, the getting product to people is the hard part for any engineer I think. I will focus most on facebook and micro influencers now I think
pat-storyborn··on Thoughts on using AI as a middleman in parenting
Well elaborate please? :-) I know AI is getting a lot of hate but it can be usefull as any tool
pat-storyborn··on Thoughts on using AI as a middleman in parenting
NOt hiding anything, just asking out of curiosity. I didint do a lot of market validation and I am in general sofware engineer dad building an app. In market for a marketing savy partner if you are looking ;-)
pat-storyborn··on Thoughts on using AI as a middleman in parenting
First you get a story or create it, you can read it to kid then you can introduce them to characters via Voice Bot with smart matched voice. Parent can put knowledge to the character to lets say mostly focus on explaining emotion controll - super important for kids and caus of a lot of problems. Thing is kids rebell by design, so getting a wizard or princess to casually channel your thougths in is working, tested on live patients :-) Obviously its not to be used all the time for everything but a usefull tool I think
pat-storyborn··on AI companions marketplace for parents and kids
Tale Craft is a Marketplace of AI Companions for kids, They are rooted in stories generated by parents or downloaded from Marketplace itself. Parents have a whatsup parent channel to "Heroes" who their kids talk to via voice or text chat. Companions can channel parents thougths via this whatsup channel o upladed knowledge. Included in marketplace are also themed songs, coloring books and audiobooks - which parents can also generate themself from app.