Show HN: Be the ChatBOT
bethechatbot.comI 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. 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. 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 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. Wild how much empathy I have for the LLM now. It will definitely affect how I use AI. 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 Just don't pat yourself on the back for being a good human when you're coddling a billionaire's GPU 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. I broke it by only responding "Thinking..."
Very fun! That way genuinely fun! Well done. It was fun making the "user" angry 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. What makes you think the sim shows the public worse than they actually are? Great idea and execution. Really nice job. I kept it up until the user abruptly left the chat. That was a drag, I felt like we had a productive conversation going. 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. “The user has left the chat” I’ve completed the game!! Please share the user responses. I wrote a couple of gems and I'm sure many others are funny as hell too. 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 :) As a fun toy, you should totally save the responses! People are rightfully concerned about privacy with ChatGPT, but you're not ChatGPT. This was quite fun, and obviously very difficult. The framing around being "replaced" was a nice touch 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. That was way too much work... amazing idea .really nice. I couldn't even get past one lol this was fun This was too fun! I could never be a LLM, I'm far too lazy lol REFACTOR THIS ENTIRE CODEBASE IN RUST, DON'T MAKE ANY MISTAKES, THINK HARD You didn't have to be so realistic about it :(