Show HN: Be the ChatBOT

neuralkoi · 2026-07-16T23:52:35 1784245955

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 · 2026-07-17T01:48:56 1784252936

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 · 2026-07-17T01:53:13 1784253193

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

conartist6 · 2026-07-17T02:57:58 1784257078

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

Sateeshm · 2026-07-16T20:48:38 1784234918

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

1970-01-01 · 2026-07-16T19:46:14 1784231174

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 · 2026-07-17T01:04:25 1784250265

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

chef-code · 2026-07-17T03:44:32 1784259872

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.

torotonnato · 2026-07-16T22:34:49 1784241289

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

keito · 2026-07-16T22:43:33 1784241813

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 · 2026-07-17T01:58:19 1784253499

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

lylejohnson · 2026-07-16T21:30:33 1784237433

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 · 2026-07-16T21:46:06 1784238366

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 · 2026-07-16T20:25:54 1784233554

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

_superposition_ · 2026-07-16T21:01:35 1784235695

That was way too much work...

jwigg11 · 2026-07-16T19:18:54 1784229534

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

goodmythical · 2026-07-17T00:15:21 1784247321

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