---
license: mit
task_categories:
  - text-generation
language:
  - en
tags:
  - build-small-hackathon
  - heuremen
  - handwritten
  - empathetic-responses
  - fallback-corpus
size_categories:
  - n<1K
---

# Heuremen Fallback Corpus

301 handwritten prompt-response pairs across 22 apps, each crafted by hand to sound like a friend, not a professor.

## What this is

Every app in the Heuremen hackathon portfolio runs on two engines: a language model for fresh responses, and a stack of handwritten fallbacks that work with zero API calls. This dataset is the fallback stack — the responses that ARE the product, not a safety net.

## Why it's valuable

Most datasets are scraped, generated, or crowdsourced. This one was written by hand at 5am on spite and breakfast burritos. Every entry was written to meet specific constraints:

- Sound like a friend, not a professor
- No jargon, no "did you know," no lecture energy
- Be specific but not technical
- Be warm but not sappy
- Make people see something they already knew but hadn't noticed

## Categories

| App | Entries | Domain |
|-----|---------|--------|
| Conflict De-escalator | 17 | Interpersonal conflict |
| Magic 8-Ball | 19 | Everyday wonder |
| Myth Unpacker | 15 | Cultural myths and traditions |
| Paradox | 15 | Scientific paradoxes |
| Tombstone | 15+ | Life choices and legacy |
| Natural | 12 | Food origin stories |
| The Fuck You Can | 12 | Art and craft appreciation |
| And 15 more apps... | 196 | Various |

## Format

JSON array. Each entry:

```json
{
  "app": "myth-unpacker",
  "category": "fallbacks",
  "topic": "knocking on wood",
  "response": "This one goes back to a time when...",
  "system_prompt": "Someone names a myth..."
}
```

## Usage

Use as few-shot examples, fine-tuning data for empathetic response generation, or as a reference for prompt engineering that prioritizes warmth over accuracy-signaling.

## License

MIT. Use it however you want. Just don't make it sound like a professor.

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