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Here’s a fun chatbot for those times you want debate a film but your friends haven’t seen it or have had enough of your bullshit. It’s up for all sorts of questions and hypothetical arguments, and I’m learning a lot just talking to it.
Example: I asked for a film where a bolt of lightning was at the center of a major plot point and it said Back to the Future (of course!), and then we asked it whether that was a more worthy moment in lightning-centric film discourse than Thor, and it was able to provide compelling arguments both ways.
After making 🥱SleepyKills🔪 (and 😴SleepyTales) and enjoying their output — like, I was literally sitting there (awake) and listening to their generated stories and having fun trying to steer them — I began to want true crime stories that weren’t meant to be boring. I wondered… what would the fictional podcast from the TV show Only Murders in the Building be like?
I’ve enjoyed three seasons of it, not just as a show, but as a vibe: a cozy murder mystery set in New York, with almost all the suspense taking place in an apartment building. That same set up is why I enjoy Woody Allen’s Manhattan Murder Mystery so much, and so I wanted to roll all of these up, along with some Agatha Christie, and make a generative podcast that ChatGPT can write and read infinitely for your amusement. It’s like Clue (or Cluedo in some parts of the world). Every story is a little bit the same, but you never know whodunnit.
So that led to only Murders in the GPT, where The GPT is The Grand Park Towers, an old art deco building bordering Central Park. You can ask it to start a new season, a random episode, or make up an episode based on your direction. Each one should involve a murder in the apartment building, which the narrator is a resident of, and lead to a thrilling investigation.
If you initiate the conversation with text chat, it’ll be a little wordier and generate a picture to illustrate the episode’s events. If you use Voice Conversations mode, you’ll get the full radio drama experience. It won’t be long before it’s possible to generate real-time music or sound effects to give it a proper podcast feel.
😴 SleepyTales: Spins long and boring stories to help you unwind and fall asleep. Designed for voice mode, turn it on and chill…
This is a GPT designed to be used with ChatGPT’s “Voice Conversations” mode (currently only in the mobile app) — although you can use it to generate text alone, it really shines when paired with one of their realistic voices. I currently prefer the one called Sky. Like it says in the description above, this GPT agent has been prompted to provide tension-free, inconsequential, meandering stories about anything you like. It reads them out in a slow, gentle manner, for quite awhile at a stretch.
So just turn on voice mode and pop your phone on the nightstand and listen to the most boring stories ever. Unfortunately, I’m unable to make it speak indefinitely without building an app, so it will occasionally stop and ask if it should keep going. You can say “yeah” or even “mmhmm”, and it will. Or you can give it some direction. Hint: just try and get it to make the story more exciting, I don’t think you’ll succeed!
And I suppose if you’ve nodded off and can’t tell it to continue, that’s a good thing? Nevertheless, I find its stories very good just for unwinding while still awake.
🥱 SleepyKills 🔪: A generative true crime podcast that couldn’t be more boring. Sleep tight!
While showing the former app to Cien, she misread “mundane” as “murder” and thought it generated boring true crime stories, to which I thought “WHY NOT!?”
And so SleepyKills was born, designed to emulate the language and style of a popular true crime podcast except… you might find it very hard to care? Firstly because the murder stories are completely generative and fictional, and secondly because they’re almost comically full of irrelevant details and lacking in any excitement or suspense. The AI podcaster often spends time on aspects of the case that no one else would want to know.
Check it out if that sounds like your kind of bedtime story.
Do you edit photos, use filters, or make your own presets? What if you had an AI tool to help create any look you asked for?
That’s ✨PixelGenius, my first “GPT” (a custom agent built on ChatGPT). It’s a photo editing expert that creates filters, suggests improvements, and helps you elevate your craft.
Describe a vibe and it’ll provide the settings to make a preset/filter.
Emulate a classic film stock!
Upload photos and get editing suggestions.
Reverse-engineer edited photos by providing a Before and After.
Learn editing techniques just by chatting naturally.
It’s designed to help beginners learn the art and color science of photo editing, while letting pros save time with great starting points. For every adjustment, it explains the intent so you learn how this stuff works.
It gives you standard adjustment values that you can plug into your favorite photo editing app like Darkroom, VSCO, Photomator, or Adobe Lightroom and save them as your own custom presets.
I prefer to learn by trying stuff out rather than watching videos or whatever, so when I first started using Lightroom, it was a messy process of trial and error that lasted years. ✨PixelGenius turns that into an interactive, guided experience. It’s like having a photo editing expert on demand, and you can even get into deep conversations about color theory and photographic history. All you need is a ChatGPT Plus account.
This involved writing one of the most comprehensive prompts I’ve done so far, so I’d be curious to know your thoughts after you give it a go!
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