I made this Twitter bot a a few years back with the idea of scraping Wikipedia to help people learn about interesting, lesser-known people from history. It used to write obituaries by scraping the information directly from Wikipedia, but I found I was able to get surprisingly high-quality results by just showing GPT-4 the obituary format and allowing it to write everything. I’m pretty happy with the current iteration!

Source code, including the prompts, are in the bot’s bio.

By the way, you may notice that some of the prompts include “written by a leftist twitter account”. I just thought it’d be funny to see what would happen if you told a bot to take a political stance on obituaries. For the most part, that part of the prompt seems to get ignored other than that the bot occasionally calls a person an imperialist haha.