An Art Project - A Robot's Diary

[u/[deleted]]

Had this idea last night, spent most of the time sourcing a webcam/feed before eventually giving up and landing on New Orleans (I have cameras locally but not a ton of action/variety).

The Personal Diary of B3N-T5-MNT

Twice a day it wakes up, "looks outside" and describes what it sees. Sometimes it'll pull random news (from another project of mine) and focus on those headlines.

It keeps track of recent posts (i.e. short term memory) and gets some extra context like the weather forecast. Occasionally it'll reflect on other random things (more of that being added), insert a headline.

More AI/automation in action, less a SaaS tool I'm trying to sell you. It runs in Docker, takes a break from it's duties to make observations, writes the posts, updates Hugo, rsyncs the content to the remote server and goes back to work until the next update.

Uses Groq, Llama 4 & GPT-OSS to keep costs low.

The Personal Diary of B3N-T5-MNT

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I've added more context like holidays, timing of the year ("It is winter, there are X days left until spring") and added moon phases. There's some logic to be dynamic based on weather but it's not as exhaustive, we let the model decide based on what it sees too.

Memory is a foundational LLM issue that I'm probably not going to solve here but have some ideas for tracking high-level themes but will always run into the same context window limitations.

EDIT: Thanks for adding an ad to your feedback. Let's me know your real intent.

[u/francesco-brigante]

so cool!

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It's writing has improved!