Show HN: Be the ChatBOT

(bethechatbot.com)

29 points | by keito 8 hours ago ago

15 comments

  • chloeeekim 30 minutes 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.

  • NickNaraghi 26 minutes ago ago

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

  • neuralkoi 2 hours 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.

  • Sateeshm 6 hours ago ago

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

  • torotonnato 4 hours 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 4 hours 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 20 minutes 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.

  • 1970-01-01 7 hours 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 an hour ago ago

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

  • lylejohnson 5 hours 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 5 hours 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.

  • darraghmckay 6 hours ago ago

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

  • _superposition_ 5 hours ago ago

    That was way too much work...

  • jwigg11 7 hours ago ago

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

    • goodmythical 2 hours ago ago

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