Hey! I am the developer of this game! Thank you for sharing it!
If the chat goes a bit slow, it's because it's suddenly getting more players than expected :P
After using several sites that allow conversations with AI characters, I realized how terribly unrealistic they were. A typical chat would go like this:
Me: Hey
Other: "Hey..." He looked at you, his face still a deep crimson, looking into your eyes, trying to say something but unable to speak, (yadda yadda yadda).
I swear, ALL the services I tried were like this. I realized there was nothing that really simulated a good old-fashioned chatting experience. So, I created the titled site.
I put most of my effort into making the chat as realistic as possible. I think I've reached a pretty good level— the experience feels very much like chatting on Omegle (minus the pervs).
Also, to make the interactions realistic, the AIs pretend to be from specific parts of the world—they have their lives, their hobbies, their quirks, and if you save them and talk with them later on, they'll remember what you talked about.
Anyway, I am aware there is quite some backlash against generative AI in many places on the web. I understand the hate towards simple LLM wrappers. I hope people can appreciate the (substantial) effort behind trying to make a standard LLM as realistic as possible. :) This is also my first web app, so I am totally open to feedback/suggestions/etc.
(also sorry for the limited free chatting time - I do pay the LLMs and I don't use a shitty model, so I can't give away much free time per user or I'll go bankrupt!)
ok so I've been hearing of this for a while. Seems to be somehow similar to Diaspora, which I didn't enjoy that much and I have currently put on hold (I am around halfway through). Wonder if I would like it.
Diaspora is a book for Math PhDs, involving a lot of physics and math theories. Accelerando is a book that anyone can read. Involving hyperintelligent cats and sentient shrimps (actual shrimps, not aliens).
I would recommend it not just for the philosophical aspect (it has a very interesting way of placating transhumanism) but also for the entertainment aspect (aforementioned shrimps, did I mention the Iranian space program?)
Stross is a very approachable author, Accelerando is not his most accessible book, but if you can go through half of Diaspora, you can easily go through the entirety of Accelerando.
I don't mind technical fiction, and I love a good hard scifi, but I guess the part of science I am most interested on (when I read literature) is the psychological one - Blindsight is by far my favourite sci-f. However I am totally up for trying Accellerando, so thank you for the reccomendation, you sold it to me :P
Needing a full feature programming language for things purely related to the page aesthetic is not a great idea.
The reasoning: some hosting platforms allow you to personalize your personal page changing the HTML and CSS bits, but not the JS - for security reason, obviously. Itch.io is an exmaple of that, where you can personalize your game and profile. By using CSS animations I can create cool effects without any of the security concern that allowing access to JS gives me. It makes sense and it's nice to be able to do so.
Counterpoint; anywhere but the web, using the same application programming language to define styling and visuals is normal. I get your point though, JS is still an all-or-nothing thing in most use cases.
This is my first time sharing this here, but you've likely seen visualizations like this already because the website uses an underlying tool called gource.io to generate the visualizations! It just makes the process much easier since you don't have to run and self-host Gource on your local machine.
I agree. At birth a human is much less capable than most animals - but the learning algorithm is so much better that they'll surpass any other non-human organisms in 2 years. This is honestly amazing an one of the best thing to witness when you are a parent. It's baffling - not only seeing your child learn new things, but also witnessing the ever increasing pace at which they learn new things.
