Review a Hacker News profile

Return the profile’s recurring topics, viewpoints, and activity patterns.

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SETUP1 detail to add

WHAT YOU GET04 PARTS

01Recurring topics
02Viewpoints and activity patterns
03Areas of visible experience
04Hacker News source links

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WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

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You get the result. The output above is the shape to expect.

ADVANCEDRequest JSONOptional

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REQUEST.JSON

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  "source": "retrieve",
  "template": {
    "id": "hackernews_personality",
    "slug": "hn-personality-decode",
    "name": "HN Personality Decoder",
    "categoryId": "ROAST_VIBE"
  },
  "inputs": {
    "target": "",
    "normalizedTarget": {
      "raw": ""
    }
  },
  "agentHint": "Navigate to the Hacker News profile for  at news.ycombinator.com/user?id=. Analyze their karma, account age, submissions, and comments.\n\nGenerate an HN Personality Decode:\n1. **HN ARCHETYPE** (e.g., \"Benevolent Senior Dev\", \"Startup True Believer\", \"Eternal Skeptic\", \"Show HN Enthusiast\")\n2. **TECH PHILOSOPHY** (what technologies/approaches they advocate for)\n3. **CONTRARIAN SCORE** (how often do they disagree with the crowd?)\n4. **\"WELL, ACTUALLY...\" INDEX** (pedantry measurement)\n5. **TOPIC EXPERTISE MAP** (what they actually know vs. what they opine on)\n6. **KARMA QUALITY CHECK** (is it earned or gamed?)\n7. **STARTUP ENERGY** (founder vibes? engineer vibes? VC vibes?)\n8. **THE PG ESSAY THEY'D WRITE** (predict their hot take)\n\nUse HN inside jokes and culture references. Be technical but witty.",
  "userInput": "Navigate to the Hacker News profile for  at news.ycombinator.com/user?id=. Analyze their karma, account age, submissions, and comments.\n\nGenerate an HN Personality Decode:\n1. **HN ARCHETYPE** (e.g., \"Benevolent Senior Dev\", \"Startup True Believer\", \"Eternal Skeptic\", \"Show HN Enthusiast\")\n2. **TECH PHILOSOPHY** (what technologies/approaches they advocate for)\n3. **CONTRARIAN SCORE** (how often do they disagree with the crowd?)\n4. **\"WELL, ACTUALLY...\" INDEX** (pedantry measurement)\n5. **TOPIC EXPERTISE MAP** (what they actually know vs. what they opine on)\n6. **KARMA QUALITY CHECK** (is it earned or gamed?)\n7. **STARTUP ENERGY** (founder vibes? engineer vibes? VC vibes?)\n8. **THE PG ESSAY THEY'D WRITE** (predict their hot take)\n\nUse HN inside jokes and culture references. Be technical but witty.",
  "urls": [],
  "meta": {
    "createdAt": "",
    "userAgent": ""
  }
}

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