Be the ChatBOT
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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/aboutHope you enjoy it! I'd love to hear people's takeaways.
HN · launched Jul 16, 2026 · 55 upvotes (top 14%) · 1 view
Niche: browser-based video games · 380 launches, 21 in the last 7 days ▼ -28% · Explore this niche →
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward web-based chat game interface where human users respond to incoming prompts instead of querying an LLM.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: LLMs have more tools/capabilities than demonstrated in the game, Privacy concerns about storing player responses, Unrealistic - real users are worse to chatbots than shown, Ethical concerns about anthropomorphizing AI/GPUs
Feature requests: Save and share player responses/conversations, Add more LLM capabilities/tools for answering questions, More random conversation end behavior for realism
Competitors
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Attention rank: #165 of 1368 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 260 days after the earliest competitor.
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