Show HN: Be the ChatBOT

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55 points | by keito 3 days ago ago

26 comments

  • neuralkoi 3 days ago ago

    This 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.

  • BrunkenClaas 2 days ago ago

    Just 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

  • veraxapp 18 hours ago ago

    Fun role reversal — I pair-program with AI every day, so being on the other side was humbling. I completely failed at the first question.

  • chloeeekim 2 days ago ago

    Turns 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.

  • tomasphan 2 days ago ago

    I broke it by only responding "Thinking..." Very fun!

  • wfurney a day ago ago

    Great idea and execution. Really nice job.

  • NickNaraghi 2 days ago ago

    Wild how much empathy I have for the LLM now. It will definitely affect how I use AI.

    • conartist6 2 days ago ago

      at 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 2 days ago ago

        Just don't pat yourself on the back for being a good human when you're coddling a billionaire's GPU

  • Sateeshm 3 days ago ago

    That way genuinely fun! Well done. It was fun making the "user" angry

  • 1970-01-01 3 days ago ago

    I 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 2 days ago ago

      What makes you think the sim shows the public worse than they actually are?

  • fsuts 2 days ago ago

    “The user has left the chat”

    I’ve completed the game!!

  • lylejohnson 3 days ago ago

    I kept it up until the user abruptly left the chat. That was a drag, I felt like we had a productive conversation going.

    • keito 3 days ago ago

      I 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 3 days ago ago

    Please share the user responses. I wrote a couple of gems and I'm sure many others are funny as hell too.

    • keito 3 days ago ago

      I 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 2 days ago ago

        As a fun toy, you should totally save the responses! People are rightfully concerned about privacy with ChatGPT, but you're not ChatGPT.

  • darraghmckay 3 days ago ago

    This was quite fun, and obviously very difficult. The framing around being "replaced" was a nice touch

  • arnab777 21 hours ago ago

    amazing idea .really nice.

  • chef-code 2 days ago ago

    I think this is good but Chatbots have ALOT of tools at their disposal, I would add more capabilities in which to answer the questions.

  • _superposition_ 3 days ago ago

    That was way too much work...

  • seaotter23 21 hours ago ago

    I couldn't even get past one lol this was fun

  • jwigg11 3 days ago ago

    This was too fun! I could never be a LLM, I'm far too lazy lol

    • goodmythical 3 days ago ago

      REFACTOR THIS ENTIRE CODEBASE IN RUST, DON'T MAKE ANY MISTAKES, THINK HARD

      • mhovd 2 days ago ago

        You didn't have to be so realistic about it :(