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Show HN: Virtual mentor for learning German (Bottom-right)

by fersarr on 6/15/23, 1:51 PM with 1 comments

Hi HN! I have been improving my webapp to learn languages. I started with short stories so that users can quickly read bits of German and translate the parts they need by tapping on words. Today, I'm adding a virtual mentor which lets you ask questions about the German language, culture or the related countries. In any story, you can click chat button at the bottom-right corner to access the mentor. Thanks for reading! Let me know what you think!

A story: https://webbu.app/l/german/story/der-verlorene-badeanzug-eas...

The mentor directly (UPDATED: I removed the login check for this URL): https://webbu.app/l/german/mentor

  • by fersarr on 6/15/23, 2:11 PM

    In case anyone's interested, I'm using OpenAI's 3.5 model for the Webbu language mentor and seeding it with instructions to answer as a language mentor and also to output whether it thinks the question is about German or not. This is so that I have an idea on whether the service is being abused or used in a weird way. Although I will probably not catch everything .