Ask Wayne

Discover Fort Wayne's local gems for nights out with "Ask Wayne," a custom GPT. Learn how this AI tool helps find unique dining and entertainment experiences.

Custom GPT Google Search

Overview

At Interplay we created a Custom GPT to help discover all the great places to enjoy on an evening out in Fort Wayne. A night of culture, dining, and maybe a little music? A basic Google search just gave us a headache when trying to find something new and off the beaten path. We created Ask Wayne to help solve those pestering questions. Ask Wayne is a web based Custom GPT focused on local owners creating fun and interesting events. Just type in what you are wanting to do… “Who has a great slice of pizza”… and Ask Wayne will give you two options once it defines your preferences for location and price range.
We see this a beta test to help us better understand the requirements of the initial data it scraps and working on tone of voice. We want Ask Wayne to give answers like the local person who is in the know about all things Fort Wayne.

Links

https://askwayne.io/
This private domain, designated "ask wayne," enforces stringent access control mechanisms.

Tech stack

Custom GPT

Custom GPTs are specialized AI agents: users build them on the OpenAI platform, fine-tuning GPT-4 with custom instructions, proprietary knowledge, and external API actions.

This is the no-code solution for building highly focused AI specialists: not generalists. Custom GPTs are tailored versions of ChatGPT, configured with specific instructions and a dedicated knowledge base (up to 20 uploaded files) to solve niche problems. They execute targeted workflows—like a legal assistant summarizing specific case files or a data analyst generating Python code for a complex dataset—by enabling capabilities such as Code Interpreter, web browsing, and external API calls (Actions). This focused specialization drives efficiency and delivers high-value, domain-specific output, moving beyond the standard chat experience.

https://chatgpt.com/create

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Google Search

The world's dominant information retrieval system (90% market share): delivering relevant answers from a multi-petabyte index in milliseconds.

Google Search is the fully-automated engine that processes billions of daily queries, connecting users to the web's most relevant information. Its three-stage process—Crawling (via Googlebot), Indexing, and Ranking—is powered by sophisticated AI models: specifically BERT and RankBrain, which interpret user intent. The core technology leverages hundreds of ranking signals to ensure quality and relevance, sifting through petabytes of data to provide a near-instant answer (often within milliseconds) for over 90% of the global search market. It is the definitive gateway to the internet.

https://www.google.com/search

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