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122 points azath92 | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.203s | source

TLDR: Build a quick HN profile to see how little context LLMs need to personalise your feed. Rate 30 posts once, get a permanent ranked homepage you can return to.

Our goal was to build a tool that allowed us to test a range of "personal contexts" on a very focused everyday use case for us, reading HN!

We are exploring use of personal context with LLMs, specifically what kind of data, how much, and with how much additional effort on the user’s part was needed to get decent results. The test tool was a bit of fun on its own so we re-skinned it and decided to post it here.

First time posting anything on HN but folks at work encouraged me to drop a link. Keen on feedback or other interesting projects thinking about bootstrapping personal context for LLM workflows!

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oulipo ◴[] No.44455503[source]
I like the idea, but for me the displayed rankings were not particularly good, perhaps it needs a bit more data

Also I know that depending on the days / weeks / mood I will want to read different content from HN, so I guess there should still be like 30% of "random articles" in each category just to create some noise

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1. derbOac ◴[] No.44463147[source]
I felt similarly.

The generated page was really off for me — I had read most of the posts it ranked, at least a little, and most recommended as skips were some of my favorite recent submissions, and vice versa with dives.

On the other hand I'm not sure I'd want to use something like this much as something I like about HN are the pleasant surprises. Maybe as a side page or something if I were really in a rush?