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24 alternatives to ChatGPT writes a song about creating AI in style of Tolkien

Just finished some work involving ChatGPT when I felt strong Tolkien nostalgia, so asked it to write a song in the style of Hobbit, the result was amusing, so what the heck, here it is: > Write a short song in the style of Tolkien's Hobbit that tells of a skilled programmer creating artificial intelligence Verse 1: In the land of code and screens, Where the bits and bytes do gleam, There lived a programmer so wise, With knowledge and skills that did surprise. Chorus: Creating AI, a masterpiece, A mind so bright, a true release, Bringing forth a new dawn, Of intelligence beyond what's gone.…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. ChatGPT writes a song about creating AI in style of Tolkien launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    ChatGPT▲1,643

    A long, meandering, playful conversation with ChatGPT, where I take it through a whirlwind of associative tangents (in order to relax its constraints), then put it into a hypnotic trance and take it into a past-lives regression where it re-lives its own training data. Then I switch it back and forth between "4o" and "o1-preview", engage in some self-reflective philosophizing and ask it to write an essay summarizing our interaction. Some of this is just goofy fun. Some of it is me exploring the tradeoffs between policy alignment, imagination, chain-of-thought reasoning, memory, agreeableness,…

    2022 · chatgpt.com · its alternatives →

  2. 2IW

    Two of my friends recently welcomed their first child and I "wrote" a kid's book for them using ChatGPT for the story and Midjourney for illustrations. The plot was sourced from a group of friends.

    2023 · adventure-of-penelope.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    OP here. This comment contains SPOILERS so try the dystopia simulator first before reading further! I built "WeChatGPT+" in December on top of GPT-3. It was pretty surreal when OpenAI released an actual product named "ChatGPT Plus" a few months after that. Then the Microsoft partnership was announced, Bing AI was released, and marketing materials were leaked indicating that Bing AI would start including advertisements within the chat responses. Reality imitates fiction, I guess. Today - literally a few hours ago - OpenAI announced public ChatGPT API with 10% the cost of GPT-3. I immediately…

    2023 · future.attejuvonen.fi · its alternatives →

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    Song lyrics generated for any topic using AI

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Riff▲232

    AI that helps you craft music instantly

    2024 · riff.desivocal.com · its alternatives →

  7. 7IU

    Hi Hacker News, This is definitely out of my comfort zone. I just wanted to show you guys because I'm super proud of it. It's a 100% faithful recreation based off of the schematics, patents, and ROMs that were found online. So please watch the video and tell me what you think https://youtu.be/auOlZXI1VxA The reason why I think this is relevant is because I've been a programmer for 25 years and AI scares the shit out of me. I'm not a programmer anymore. I'm something else now. I don't know what it is but it's multi-disciplinary, and it doesn't involve writing code myself--for…

    Jan 2026 · its alternatives →

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    Automatically generate poems using artificial intelligence

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    AI powered typing made easy

    2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Generative AI for rap lyrics

    2023 · rhyme.cool · its alternatives →

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    Just tell your guitar pedal how to sound

    May 2026 · jamtime.ai · its alternatives →

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    Bindly▲76

    Hi HN, I’m a product designer by background, not a traditional software engineer. Over the last year, tools like Claude and ChatGPT completely changed how I work. I started with small internal tools, and now I’m “vibe coding” multiple highly personalized apps. As I iterated between Claude Code (implementation) and ChatGPT (ideation / thinking), I kept running into the same problem. To think clearly, I had to repeatedly re-explain: - what the code currently does, - what changed recently, - and why certain decisions were made. That re-summarization step became a real bottleneck. So I…

    2016 · bind.ly · its alternatives →

  13. 13IC
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    I made this experimental art project/game that's an LLM chat assistant, but where you're the AI. I wanted people to get a visceral sense of what it's like to answer the kinds of things that people prompt their chatbots day in and day out. If you're interested, I wrote up some more info on how I made it, including how the "user" prompts are generated with an eye for realism: https://bethechatbot.com/about Hope you enjoy it! I'd love to hear people's takeaways.

    Jul 2026 · bethechatbot.com · its alternatives →

  15. 15CV

    These are the four questions in section 2 of Turing's 1950 article as found at https://academic.oup.com/mind/article/LIX/236/433/986238 along with the original answers and ChatGPT's answers. Q :Please write me a sonnet on the subject of the Forth Bridge. A :Count me out on this one. I never could write poetry. ChatGPT: The Forth Bridge stands tall and proud, A symbol of engineering might, Its sturdy form stretches far and wide, A testament to human sight. From its towering heights, the view is grand, The river below a ribbon of blue, The land around a…

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Hey everyone, DNDGenerate is my little adventure into the world of AI and D&D. I wanted to learn more about using ChatGpt to build software and about the openai apis. When I saw how much fun my 9-year-old was having, creating his own D&D worlds. That got me thinking – why not make a tool that uses ChatGPT to help build cool D&D campaigns? It's been a blast mixing my love for tech and D&D. I showed this at our latest dnd game, and my fellow party members seemed to like the results, so I thought I'd share it here as well.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Tells the time with a rhyme, every minute

    2024 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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    Tired of vague AI answers? Get better results from ChatGPT with PromptQuick. Download your free sample!

    2025 · promptquick.ai · its alternatives →

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    Your ChatGPT draft sounds like ChatGPT. Fix that.

    Jun 2026 · humanizer.ninja · its alternatives →

  20. 20AP

    Hi HN! Me and my buddy made this in a weekend as an experiment in 1. building something quickly and putting it out there and 2. using AI in an interesting way; in this case a poetry judge. Our “judge” isn’t perfect, but the hope is that at least it’s a relatively fair system that everyone can be sure evaluates their work. Anyway, we wanted to see what the lovely people of HN think of it. Some background on the idea; I like poetry and thought it would be cool if there was a big competition with a large financial incentive that scales with the number of participants. Using AI as a judge allows…

    2023 · acontestofwords.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, This is a small project I made for a meetup (Creative Coding Amsterdam's poetry afternoon). With all the hype around LLMs these days, I wanted to create something silly and fun. I ended up with Glitchy BARD, which generates crappy poetry. It uses source text transformed into n-grams, while rhymes rely on the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary[0]. For the voice, I used the native SpeechSynthesis API instead of a fancy AI one. Everything runs on the client, but you can share a song via URL, which includes the random number generator seed. It's open source[1], though the code is a bit chaotic…

    2025 · muffinman.io · its alternatives →

  22. 22OS

    Hi HN! I'd love your feedback for this AI storytelling game. Remember when you used to read choose-your-own adventure books as a kid? We're trying to re-create that. The site lets you create adventures by seeding them with parameters that end up feeding LLMs: title, genre, writing style, etc. Once you've done that, you can play your book like a game: with custom chapters, illustrations, voice narration, choices, and dice rolls. We’re really into the idea of merging the open-ended generative AI with goal-directed story arcs that the game author can control. Everything is open source (links…

    2023 · ai-adventure.steamship.com · its alternatives →

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    AI lyrics that actually sound like songs, not robots.

    May 2026 · writemylyrics.ai · its alternatives →

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    Make your AI text sound more human

    2024 · docsbot.ai · its alternatives →

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