ai mentor

Here's a compelling project submission for an AI Mentor project that would be perfect for Go On Hacks:

Inspiration

We were inspired by the countless hackathon participants who stare blankly at their screens at 3 AM, wondering why they decided to build a blockchain-based smart fridge. We thought: what if instead of human mentors who need sleep and have reasonable advice, we had an AI mentor that thrives on chaos and encourages increasingly absurd feature creep?

What it does

AI Mentor is a sarcastic, unhelpful, but strangely motivating AI hackathon companion. Instead of giving practical advice, it:

• Suggests increasingly ridiculous features for your project ("Have you considered adding blockchain?")
• Questions your life choices when your code breaks
• Provides "helpful" comments like "This code looks fine to me, but I'm just a language model trained until 2023"
• Generates absurd user stories and stretch goals
• Celebrates your failures with dramatic flair

How we built it

• Backend: Python with FastAPI, because we wanted to over-engineer a simple chat application
• AI: GPT-4 API with custom prompt engineering to maximize sass and minimize practical utility
• Frontend: A deliberately ugly React interface that changes color based on how long you've been coding
• Database: PostgreSQL, to store all the terrible advice we're giving out
• Authentication: OAuth that occasionally "forgets" who you are for added realism

Challenges we ran into

• Making the AI less helpful was surprisingly difficult - it kept trying to give actual good advice
• The "sarcasm detection" module kept detecting our actual code as sarcastic
• Balancing encouragement with brutal honesty without making users cry
• The AI kept suggesting features that would require quantum computing to implement

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Created an AI that perfectly captures the energy of a sleep-deprived hackathon mentor
• Successfully made a tool that increases imposter syndrome by 300%
• Got the AI to suggest adding "machine learning" to a simple to-do list app
• Built something that's simultaneously useless and strangely compelling
• Our test users reported feeling "seen, but in a concerning way"

What we learned

• Sarcasm is much harder to code than competence
• Sometimes the most "helpful" help is telling someone their idea is terrible
• Sleep deprivation affects both humans and AIs
• There's a fine line between "motivational" and "emotionally abusive"
• Hackathon projects don't need to solve real problems to be valuable

What's next for AI Mentor

• AI Mentor Pro: Now with 200% more unhelpful architecture diagrams
• Tinder Integration: So your AI Mentor can find you a coding partner who will ghost you after the hackathon
• VC Pitch Generator: Creates completely unrealistic startup valuations for your project
• Crisis Mode: When it detects too many bugs, it automatically orders pizza and energy drinks
• Therapy Module: An AI therapist to deal with the emotional damage caused by our AI mentor

Because sometimes what you really need isn't good advice, but someone who understands the beautiful mess you're creating at 4 AM.

Built With

• api
• elevenlabs
• google
• html
• lovable
• machine-learning
• midjourney
• python
• tensor
• webrtc