HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

ekatzenstein

31 karma · joined November 5, 2018

submissionscomments
ekatzenstein··on Show HN: Hey, it's jams. ask me to make a Spotify playlist just for you. (AI)
Thanks for the kind words!

Personalization is only based on your prompt. How unique the prompt is defines how unique the playlist is. On principle, we want users to volunteer their uniqueness rather than extract it by some other means.

Jams isn't about red tape, so we've avoided auth for now. We may add a "Connect with your Spotify" option later on so that a user can own the playlist that Jams created and edit to their liking. At that point it may be possible to connect personalized Spotify data (ie liked songs) to Jams' model, with user consent.

ekatzenstein··on Show HN: Hey, it's jams. ask me to make a Spotify playlist just for you. (AI)
Thanks for the feedback. Jams is currently using Chat GPT 3.5-turbo as his model (since v4 is currently cost-prohibitive). He may struggle with inferring the context.

I tried your prompts and agree that the playlists aren't getting after what I hear when I hear that prompt. Jams seems to think "explorers and conquerors" are rock ballads and indie folk, which is a little off.

I retooled the prompt to "epic songs about historical conquerors, adventurous. include historical folk songs about conquerors as well." The result (below) seemed more in-line with my intuitive take on the prompt. This is all bound to improve over time as Jams get smarter.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6HzDhzeKMRoncsCIrolgs8

ekatzenstein··on Show HN: Hey, it's jams. ask me to make a Spotify playlist just for you. (AI)
Thanks! Where on Spotify did you see it?
ekatzenstein··on Show HN: Hey, it's jams. ask me to make a Spotify playlist just for you. (AI)
Thanks!
ekatzenstein··on Show HN: Hey, it's jams. ask me to make a Spotify playlist just for you. (AI)
Awesome, thanks!
ekatzenstein··on Show HN: Hey, it's jams. ask me to make a Spotify playlist just for you. (AI)
It may do greatest hits if you don't specify that you want something more obscure. Ultimately it's Jams' choice since he's the DJ
ekatzenstein··on Show HN: Hey, it's jams. ask me to make a Spotify playlist just for you. (AI)
Thanks! Just a mix of ChatGPT + Spotify. Nothing new on the tech front, just dipping my toes into AI tools :D
ekatzenstein··on Show HN: Hey, it's jams. ask me to make a Spotify playlist just for you. (AI)
It does! Just use the word "podcast" in your prompt.
ekatzenstein··on Show HN: Covid Vaccine Availability for CVS, Duane Reade, Rite Aid, Walgreens
nice!
ekatzenstein··on Show HN: Covid Vaccine Availability for CVS, Duane Reade, Rite Aid, Walgreens
We've updated getmyvaccine.org to add new pharmacies. All data is collected ethically and legally. Welcoming collaboration if anyone has access to additional pharmacy data. Aim is to make a "Kayak for Covid".

Unusable UIs lead to slot waste and deter users. This will prolong the pandemic and endanger lives.

ekatzenstein··on Show HN: Open Covid-19 Vaccine Appointments
Ouch, that sounds terrible. I took a look at the calvax page and didn't see any clinic links. Sorry you have to go through that nonsense
ekatzenstein··on Show HN: Open Covid-19 Vaccine Appointments
can you send more details? not familiar with the Calvax process
ekatzenstein··on Show HN: Open Covid-19 Vaccine Appointments
will do cheers
ekatzenstein··on Show HN: Open Covid-19 Vaccine Appointments
Cool idea, thanks for the tip.
ekatzenstein··on Show HN: Open Covid-19 Vaccine Appointments
Look at all the open slots in moosup, ct: https://getmyvaccine.org/zips/02886

These slots may not get filled.

ekatzenstein··on Show HN: Open Covid-19 Vaccine Appointments
awesome!
ekatzenstein··on Show HN: Open Covid-19 Vaccine Appointments
please double check to make sure that you're eligible in your state. for most states you have to be at least 65 and older if you're not an essential worker.
ekatzenstein··on Show HN: Open Covid-19 Vaccine Appointments
replied in the comment above. thanks for the note
ekatzenstein··on Show HN: Open Covid-19 Vaccine Appointments
It's all state-by-state, store-by-store. It's possible that those walgreens are not administering vaccines yet, or the state hasn't rolled out a program with walgreens.

Also, the app was built and launched in the last few days, so if you can confirm that those walgreens are indeed offering vaccines, and show up when going through the registration process on the website, please let me know and I'll look into it.

ekatzenstein··on Show HN: Open Covid-19 Vaccine Appointments
nice!
ekatzenstein··on Show HN: Open Covid-19 Vaccine Appointments
Thanks!
ekatzenstein··on Show HN: Open Covid-19 Vaccine Appointments
In Delaware, Walgreens does Moderna. Not sure if Walgreens uses only Moderna nationwide. There would likely be more info on their site.
ekatzenstein··on Show HN: Open Covid-19 Vaccine Appointments
Absolutely, and thanks for the kind words. Had to setup nearly all of this scraping just to get a vaccine slot for a family member. Building the site was almost trivial after that.
ekatzenstein··on Show HN: Open Covid-19 Vaccine Appointments
Good point...thought about doing a typeahead for nearer zip codes if the zip code searched doesn't show up results. Counties are interesting idea, but the bucketing needs to be simplified to lat/lng for data ingestion, which is why zip codes were chosen, arguably the most intuitive thing that's "close enough" to a lat/lng coord.
ekatzenstein··on Show HN: Open Covid-19 Vaccine Appointments
Walgreens sucks at scheduling vaccines, so we scraped it to make slot-filling easier.