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bekleinyesterday at 6:53 PM8 repliesview on HN

I love this! I use coding agents to generate web-based slide decks where “master slides” are just components, and we already have rules + assets to enforce corporate identity. With content + prompts, it’s straightforward to generate a clean, predefined presentation. What I’d really want on top is an “improv mode”: during the talk, I can branch off based on audience questions or small wording changes, and the system proposes (say) 3 candidate next slides in real time. I pick one, present it, then smoothly merge back into the main deck. Example: if I mention a recent news article / study / paper, it automatically generates a slide that includes a screenshot + a QR code link to the source, then routes me back to the original storyline. With realtime voice + realtime code generation, this could turn the boring old presenter view into something genuinely useful.


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sva_yesterday at 7:19 PM

I love the probabilistic nature of this. Presentations could be anywhere from extremely impressive to hilariously embarrassing.

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m_muelleryesterday at 10:18 PM

You're describing almost verbatim what we're building at Octigen [1]! Happy to provide a demo and/or give you free access to our alpha version already online.

[1] https://octigen.com

deepGemyesterday at 9:00 PM

I built something similar at a hackathon, a dynamic teleprompter that adjusts the speed of tele-prompting based on speaker tonality and spoken wpm. I can see extending the same to an improv mode. This is a super cool idea.

jorgenveisdalyesterday at 8:14 PM

As an associate professor who spends a ridiculous amount of time preparing for lectures, I would love to try this in one of my courses

esafakyesterday at 7:34 PM

Can you show one?

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orochimaaruyesterday at 7:04 PM

How do you handle the diagrams?

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turnsoutyesterday at 7:09 PM

I love the idea of a living slide deck. This feels like a product that needs to exist!