Be the ChatBOT
Details
- External ID
- 48938524
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- Be the ChatBOT
- Website domain
- bethechatbot.com
- Launched
- July 16, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 55
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8596176821983273
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- task-specific ai agents and assistants
- Vertical
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- Function
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- Audience
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- AI stance
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- Project type
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- Normalized one-liner
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- Manually corrected
- False
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: #63 of 503 (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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