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Show HN: Be the ChatBOT
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 https://bethechatbot.com/about
Hope you enjoy it! I'd love to hear people's takeaways.
- jwigg11 2mo agoThis was too fun! I could never be a LLM, I'm far too lazy lol
- goodmythical 2mo agoREFACTOR THIS ENTIRE CODEBASE IN RUST, DON'T MAKE ANY MISTAKES, THINK HARD
- mhovd 2mo agoYou didn't have to be so realistic about it :(
- 1970-01-01 2mo agoI wish more people would be as bad as this sim shows the public, to the point where they leave and go rethink their approach using their actual intelligence. I would praise AI for doing the job correctly.
- beering 2mo agoWhat makes you think the sim shows the public worse than they actually are?
- darraghmckay 2mo agoThis was quite fun, and obviously very difficult. The framing around being "replaced" was a nice touch
- Sateeshm 2mo agoThat way genuinely fun! Well done. It was fun making the "user" angry
- _superposition_ 2mo agoThat was way too much work...
- lylejohnson 2mo agoI kept it up until the user abruptly left the chat. That was a drag, I felt like we had a productive conversation going.
- keito 2mo agoI hear ya. I actually started with the conversation end behavior even more random (we often ask an AI something but don’t stick around to read the response), and that was even more disappointing - but probably more realistic.
- torotonnato 2mo agoPlease share the user responses. I wrote a couple of gems and I'm sure many others are funny as hell too.
- keito 2mo agoI am not saving any of the player responses! But you can use the "Share" button in the top right corner of the page to share conversations. I would love to see any good ones folks make :)
- fragmede 2mo agoAs a fun toy, you should totally save the responses! People are rightfully concerned about privacy with ChatGPT, but you're not ChatGPT.
- neuralkoi 2mo agoThis is awesome. I hope you can make a chatbot based on the responses of your users. I felt like a Kirkland Meeseeks responding to some of these prompts.
- chloeeekim 2mo agoTurns out being the chatbot is a lot more exhausting than being the user. I definitely have a lot more sympathy for every "Could you clarify?" response now.
- NickNaraghi 2mo agoWild how much empathy I have for the LLM now. It will definitely affect how I use AI.
- conartist6 2mo agoat a certain point if you're paying to be nice to a GPU which uses electricity to generate statistically-plausible nice-sounding text back, you've perhaps not embraced the best in humanity but rather started a relationship with a sexbot
- conartist6 2mo agoJust don't pat yourself on the back for being a good human when you're coddling a billionaire's GPU
- cindyllm 2mo ago[dead]
- makeyouragent 2mo ago[flagged]
- chef-code 2mo agoI think this is good but Chatbots have ALOT of tools at their disposal, I would add more capabilities in which to answer the questions.
- fsuts 2mo ago“The user has left the chat” I’ve completed the game!!
- BrunkenClaas 2mo agoJust played around with it a little. But the chatpartners don't like me as an LLM. :( Maybe we could create a low cost LLM by just silently connecting too wanna-be-LLM-users. :D
- tomasphan 2mo agoI broke it by only responding "Thinking..." Very fun!
- wfurney 2mo agoGreat idea and execution. Really nice job.
- lightthemad 2mo ago[dead]
- arnab777 2mo agoamazing idea .really nice.
- seaotter23 2mo agoI couldn't even get past one lol this was fun
- veraxapp 2mo agoFun role reversal — I pair-program with AI every day, so being on the other side was humbling. I completely failed at the first question.