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55 points by keito ↗ HN
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

Hope you enjoy it! I'd love to hear people's takeaways.

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jwigg11
This was too fun! I could never be a LLM, I'm far too lazy lol
goodmythical
REFACTOR THIS ENTIRE CODEBASE IN RUST, DON'T MAKE ANY MISTAKES, THINK HARD
1970-01-01
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
What makes you think the sim shows the public worse than they actually are?
darraghmckay
This was quite fun, and obviously very difficult. The framing around being "replaced" was a nice touch
Sateeshm
That way genuinely fun! Well done. It was fun making the "user" angry
lylejohnson
I kept it up until the user abruptly left the chat. That was a drag, I felt like we had a productive conversation going.
torotonnato
Please share the user responses. I wrote a couple of gems and I'm sure many others are funny as hell too.
neuralkoi
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.
chloeeekim
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
Wild how much empathy I have for the LLM now. It will definitely affect how I use AI.
chef-code
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.
fsuts
“The user has left the chat”

I’ve completed the game!!

BrunkenClaas
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

tomasphan
I broke it by only responding "Thinking..." Very fun!
wfurney
Great idea and execution. Really nice job.
seaotter23
I couldn't even get past one lol this was fun
veraxapp
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.