Hi HN! I'm an amateur ceramicist and recently I've been collaborating, for lack of a better term, with LLMs like GPT on my pieces.

I've seen people use the 'commissioner' metaphor to describe the relationship between the prompter and generative image models, and wondered what it would feel like to reverse that relationship with an LLM and be commissioned by it, no matter how unlikely or unworkable its demands are.

I thought this is probably how the dwarves feel in Dwarf Fortress when they are taken by a 'strange mood' (https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Strange_mood) - a bolt of inspiration that they must complete or suffer negative consequences for it. So I made a quick-and-dirty tool to simulate that - it conjures up a deity from the Dwarf Fortress rules, asks GPT to adopt that persona, and output a ceramic demand. Sometimes the demands are very simple, sometimes difficult, sometimes absurd. I have my first divinely inspired demand ready to work on this weekend.

(For DF fans: I suppose this is more like the possessed mood than the fey - but I liked the name more.)