Show HN: Chat with LLMs on Your Kindle (companion.ink)

2 points by ringerapps 1y ago ↗ HN

After receiving a Kindle Scribe for Christmas, I wanted to use ChatGPT directly on my E-Ink display but couldn't find any existing solutions. Despite the Kindle's closed ecosystem, I discovered its browser _could_ support a simple chat UI.

I created companion.ink to mimic Kindle's UI sensibilities and deliver a pretty seamless AI chat experience on E-Ink displays. It works on Kindle Scribe, Paperwhite, and should work on other E-Readers too, but let me know if there are any issues. Feedback welcome!

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swishman 1y ago ↗

This is really cool. It seems to me LLMs and books are a match made in heaven. An LLM query is more useful than a google search for most text. Would be cool to see this more deeply integrated, in a koreader extension or something

Terretta 1y ago ↗

What is "Custom prompt to let us know what you're reading"?

ringerapps 1y ago ↗

You can edit the system prompt via the settings page, which gives the chat model additional context at the start of every chat.

E.g. You may tell it you're reading a particular novel, so each chat would begin `You are a helpful assistant. The user would like you to know they are reading Sapiens...`.