Vibe-coding a kid-friendly AI fortune teller for your Halloween festivities | Marco Casalaina

Welcome to a spooky and unplanned Halloween edition of How I AI. I'm Claire Vo, product leader and AI obsessive, here on a mission to help you use LLMs to do spooky stuff for your kids. Today, we had a haunted episode recording that we couldn't get to work, so instead of our regular scheduled programming, we did a quick Halloween vibe code that I think some of you parents out there will be inspired by. If you have other Halloween vibe codes, please share them with us in the comments, and enjoy this very short episode of How I AI: Halloween Edition. [upbeat music] Marco, we may, we may not be able to do our podcast today. We are haunted by-

We are haunted

... expired cr- ex- expired corporate credit cards. But you have a, a Halloween-based AI use case [chuckles] we're gonna talk about instead, just for a few minutes before we reschedule.

I do, I do, and maybe I'll, I'll kind of do it live on the fly here.

Yeah.

And so why don't we, why don't we not just talk about it, why don't we actually do it? So I'm dressed as Captain Picard right now, uh, as I do every year, dressed as Captain Picard. I mean, it naturally fits with my-

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- brand and stuff like that. Of course, I am a huge Star Trek fan. I'm in the middle of Strange New Worlds right now, Season 4. But, uh, by night, at least for Halloween, I do something a little bit different. I am the block fortune teller. So this is the Halloween party block that I live on here in Piedmont, California, and so we will block off the street, and all of our neighbors do crazy stuff. And so, you know, my neighbor across the street is gonna have all this projection stuff going on, and they have, like, fire coming out of something and... But what I do, well, I am a fortune teller. So traditionally, uh, what I have done for the past few years is that I have pre-created fortunes. So I set up this table, and on this table, uh, I have a, a, a crystal ball, and the crystal ball glows and stuff like that. It's not a high-tech crystal ball. It has nothing but a couple of LED lights in it, but the kids come up, and there's lots of kids in town, you know, hundreds of them really, come up, and they, they will get their fortunes from this thing. Now, in reality, what I did was I, in the past, have pre-created these fortunes. So I make a list of them with GPT-3 and then GPT-4, and I store them in a note on my phone, and I kind of keep it between my legs under the table, and I'll kind of pick one at random. So when a kid comes up, I'll pick this one, and I make a kind of kid-friendly fortunes. Now, this year, I, I was thinking about doing this, and since we're talking, I'm gonna do this live now.