Life
A TV recommendation bot built from your own ratings of a best-of list
Picking the next show for two people means scrolling forever and arguing.
What hurt
Filipe Névola (@FilipeNevola) took the NYT list of the 100 best TV shows of the century, recorded which ones he and his wife watched and how they rated them, and made a bot called Series Nerd that recommends what they'll like. Not affiliated with xAI.
What to install or create
Start from a published best-of list, mark what you've watched and your ratings, and keep that file where the bot can read it (he keeps it in a personal repo). Add more shows over time; the more ratings, the better the recommendations.
Bots
Series Nerd
Recommends shows based on your household's ratings.
Plugins
GitHub
Optional
Files
Ratings file: show, who watched, each person's rating.
Routines
None on the first run. Watch one manual pass first.
The prompt
This is a tip, not a pasteable system prompt. The author did not publish one. Follow the first-run steps.
First run
- 1Read https://x.com/FilipeNevola/status/2107869535949009144 (credit @FilipeNevola).
- 2Grab a best-of list you trust as a starting set.
- 3Mark what each of you watched and rate it, in a file the bot can read.
- 4Make a bot whose only job is recommending from those ratings.
- 5Keep adding shows you remember or finish so the picks improve.
Approval fence
Read-only and low stakes; nothing is bought or posted.
What to tweak
Your ratings are the context. A public list just gets you started fast.
Source
Filipe Névola @FilipeNevola · Original post
Not affiliated with xAI. We did not write this prompt. Third-party template terms still apply.
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