Participating in Canada's Biggest Hackathon

I had the amazing opportunity to be a part of the University of Waterloo's Hack the North 2023, and it was a rewarding experience. I got to witness firsthand the innovation and creativity of some incredibly talented students. My team and I created Greg the Goose an AI powered game where you have to describe a selected word to Greg without mentioning the word itself or 3 given related words. All you need to do is think and shout it to Greg and he’ll try his best to guess the word. We fully utilized the capabilities of Cohere's text generation LLM to create our AI powered companion Greg. Greg is provided with a set of our prompts and the user's input, and its task is to generate a single word that accurately reflects the user's description. Throughout this iterative process, the model receives feedback on the correctness of its responses, allowing it to continuously improve. Thanks to Google Cloud's speech to text capabilities, our users get to interact with Greg using natural speech, enhancing the overall user experience. Overall, I had a blast creating this project with my team. But what struck me most was the amount of work that goes on behind the scenes. It was an honour to contribute to the success of Hack the North 2023.

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What I learned

- UX Design

- Cohere API

- Google Cloud API web integration

- Learning my way around UWaterloo campus