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I want to build some AI tutors at home to help my kids with some of their school subjects and interests. I help them with subjects I know, but for other subjects I often do not have enough background. What are you best tips/ideas/design patterns you learned when making this app?


Some random tips which could help you

- Don't go over 10k tokens in the prompts as the intelligence and memory degrades

- Summarize sessions and save the summaries, potentially summarize the summaries as well

- use VAPI or realtime api if you want to build fast. Building the full pipeline takes a while

- try out different models and see how personality varies. Our favorite is gpt4.1 with temperature 1.

- goal system. The promot should always contain the current goal, and the next goal. Evaluate goals with another LLM, and dynamically change the prompt


thank you




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