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GenAI from Simple Chat to Apps, Bots, and Workflows

GenAI

Event Details

Date : 18 Dec 2025 (Thu)

Time : 12:00nn – 2:00pm

Venue : Learning Lab (RRS 321, 3/F, Run Run Shaw Building, Main Campus, HKU)

Speaker : Mr. Chun-Ho Hung, Software Engineer, Poe Team, Quora Inc.

Facilitator :

Dr. Jessica To, Lecturer, TALIC, HKU
Dr. Elvis Ng Wang Hei, Assistant Lecturer, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, HKU

Abstract

This beginner friendly session introduces practical ways to use Generative AI (GenAI) with Poe that go beyond simple chat. It brings together many of the best AI models (GPT, Gemini, Claude, Nano-Banana-Pro) across text, image, video, and audio into a single interface, so participants can explore powerful tools without needing to juggle multiple accounts or platforms.

Focusing on simple, real-world examples, the workshop will show how Poe can help organize and support everyday academic and professional tasks at HKU:

how Canvas apps (built with Poe’s App Creator) can turn plain language ideas into interactive web applications for drafting, refining, and organizing work;
how prompt bots let you build custom bots on top of frontier models using a single text description;
how script bots and script creator can start to automate simple, repetitive processes while remaining accessible to non-specialists; and
how Poe’s OpenAI compatible chat completions API makes it possible to call any model or bot on Poe from your own tools and projects.

The session will also briefly highlight new collaboration features like group chat, which allow participants to work with others and multiple AI models in a single shared conversation.

No programming background or prior experience with Poe is required. Through live demonstrations (including Canvas apps, App Creator, and example API usage), discussion, and Q&A, the session aims to build confidence, clarify what GenAI can achieve, and offer a small set of concrete starting points that participants can adapt to their own work contexts.

Participants could bring their notebook computer to do hands-on practice during the workshop.

About the Speaker

Mr. Chun-Ho Hung is a software engineer on the Poe team at Quora, where he builds the Poe API and platform that enable everyone to access frontier generative AI models. He has over a decade of industry experience, including as a software engineer at Google, working on the next generation of planet-scale distributed backend infrastructure for products such as Google Search and YouTube, and as a backend engineer at Robinhood, supporting the company’s hypergrowth stage. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and an MPhil in Computer Science and Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.