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Show HN: Destiny – Claude Code's fortune Teller skill
Destiny is the Claude Code's plugin that gives you a real fortune reading.
Type /destiny to see today's destiny!
It uses the actual classical East Asian astrology system. You enter your birthday once, then /destiny gives you today's reading anytime.
Two layers, kept honest:
1. The numbers (your eight-character birth chart, today's day pillar, the hexagram for the moment, five-element relationships) are computed by a Python script. Same person + same day = identical output. You can verify against any traditional calendar source.
2. The prose (today's stars, character sketch, life arc, advice) is written by Claude, applying centuries-old reading conventions to that fixed data. Not LLM-hallucinated horoscope.
If you have fun with it, a star would mean a lot.
- rapjay 4mo ago[dead]
- rapjay 4mo ago[dead]
- awakeasleep 5mo agoCould you flesh out the installation instructions a little more? I haven't used the plugin marketplace yet, and don't have a /plugin command. Claude itself is not able to tell me how to install it.
- xodn348 5mo ago[dead]
- xodn348 5mo agoJust edited readme as well
- svachalek 5mo agoThis is for Claude Code. It's not hard to install/run Claude Code but it might be a little intimidating if you're not used to command lines. I think in the regular Claude app, you can set up something like this as a "project" with a custom prompt. Claude might be able to pull the prompting from Github and convert it.
- xodn348 5mo ago[flagged]
- awakeasleep 5mo agoThere is a claude code in the claude gui as well, i think everyone must be saying to use the tui.
- treexs 5mo agointeresting, but I really wonder how big the audience is of people wanting to know their fortune while claude coding within the claude code interface
- xodn348 5mo agoThis is my fun project! Not a profitable entity. Thanks
- tomaytotomato 5mo agoI would recommend you consider a Claude code hook, you could then specify a particular part of the agent lifecycle to invoke the fortune as an alternative to manual invocation of the skill. You could do it on `SessionStart` to give a horoscope. I am looking at making a skill to test random programming knowledge, so I don't forget that an Integer is 32bits (at least in Java)
- xodn348 5mo agoAuto-run on session start (optional) added. Please check it out!
- babblingfish 5mo agofeature request: marriage palace built using two user profiles
- xodn348 5mo ago/destiny compat <partner birth> <city> <m|f> do it now.
- hansmayer 5mo agoSince you seem to be mentioning 'destiny', 'life arc' and 'advice' -it may be wise to put in some kind of a legal disclaimer for your own sake -- the use of LLM toys for advice about life and similar have led to some really bad outcomes, even suicides as we know now.
- xodn348 5mo agofair points. I will take a look at it
- lanyard-textile 5mo agoIf you act like a doctor and someone gets hurt from your acting, that's the main trouble. I am not sure the same standard would apply for a fortune teller :)
- chaqchase 5mo agoCurious what prompt boundaries you're using. It's the kind of thing that's fun until it quietly invents details.
- xodn348 5mo agoI actually did not use prompts here. It is actual calculation from the python lunar and it cast the result to LLM which you use. The LLM has the old books such as giving you your fortune following lunar year calculation. Have a fun with it!
- sudosteph 5mo agoI am resisting the urge to be very snarky. But how do you know that Claude's hallucinated horoscopes are any less accurate than traditional techniques? Have you A/B tested them?
- xodn348 5mo ago[flagged]
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- mikestorrent 5mo agoI once did an exercise to review the previous week's horoscope and grade each sign on how closely it corresponded to my actual week. I found no consistency whatsoever, so I'm not just miscategorized into the wrong sign, but in fact none of them had any predictive value. It might be fun to broaden that out to other sources of horoscope than my local Coffee News, maybe a better mystic is what I need
- chakintosh 5mo agoI thought anthropic is tightening usage but it seems people have nothing to do with their tokens …
- xodn348 5mo agoI'm doing what people wants. Thanks!
- throwatdem12311 5mo agoYes this is exactly what we need — the hallucinating dunning-Krueger inducing psychosis machine spewing made up pseudoscientific nonsense. Bravo.
- xodn348 5mo agohaha great prose
- throwatdem12311 5mo agoPeople have been goaded into killing themselves or others by LLMs so I don’t take kindly to third rate hucksters abusing the behaviours that lead to it with these tools for a laugh.
- Jtarii 5mo agoI don't think it's that deep. Seems like a bit of an overexageration to a bit of fun.
- throwatdem12311 5mo agoHave you ever had to deal with someone whose brain has been completely cooked by LLM induced psychosis? Because I have — it destroys people’s lives completely unnecessarily. So I will not apologize for having a visceral disgust towards people and behaviours that will amplify these very real harms for their own personal gratification and online clout chasing.
- _pdp_ 5mo agoLooks like a supply chain risk to me.
- xodn348 5mo agoI did not understood the meaning of your words.
- Balvarez 5mo agofor what it's worth I think this is fun. I'm not into this sort of thing but it's fun none the less.
- xodn348 5mo agoThis was what I was targeting. Thanks
- neonstatic 5mo agoNow the call center cranks will have even better scripts to read. Perfect...
- xodn348 5mo agoLet me have fun with it. Thanks
- neonstatic 5mo agoI'm not trying to spoil it!
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- mavelikara 5mo agoLove to see the evals on this one!
- ggnore7452 5mo agoIsn't that the memory files are loading by default?
- Amber-chen 5mo ago[flagged]
- Rekindle8090 5mo ago[dead]
- gorlokthedev 5mo agoi wonder how the output will be in different LLM
- tokyoproductj 5mo agoSo the astrology is deterministic, and the interpretation is probabilistic. Which is interesting, because that’s exactly where most of the perceived “accuracy” tends to come from.