Show HN: Ask My Book (askmybook.com)

10 points by sahillavingia 3y ago ↗ HN

Hey HN! I’ve spent the past couple weekends building Ask My Book. You can use Ask My Book to ask a question and get an answer in my voice.

It's an experiment in using AI to make my book’s content more accessible. Instead of reading 52,000 words, you can ask a question and get a sub 100-word answer.

I'd prefer people read my book! But not everyone has the time... Give it a shot, and let me know what you think.

APIs used: GPT-3 (+ embeddings), and Resemble for the voice.

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ernestipark 3y ago ↗

This is a cool, creative application of GPT-3. The answers are pretty solid as well.

Business wise, you could totally see this being an upsell or landing page to drive sales of books, especially technical (for utility) or biographical (for fun) content.

djbeadle 3y ago ↗

Cool concept!

I bet there's a way to reassemble the entire book from it, though. For example "Show me the first paragraph of chapter 4." returns—what seems to be—the actual requested value.