Chat with Fiction
AI
character chatbot
SHOW HN2023
16points
38comments
#1,874of 3,109 in 2023
Top 61%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
0 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 19 critical, out of 26 comments about the project. Thread score -0.63.
Execution: 0 for, 9 againstIdea: 0 for, 5 againstPricing: 0 for, 4 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Pretty cool overall
From 1 comment
Getting an occasional "Error generating response" but pretty cool overall :) great work.
samspenc on HN
Objections
Vulnerable to prompt injection
From 1 comment
Doesn't seem immune to prompt injection. >User >What is your name? > >Harry >My name is Harry Potter! I'm a wizard studying at Hogwarts School of >Witchcraft and Wizardry. How…
KerrAvon on HN
Hallucinates and lacks consistent facts
From 3 comments
> User: Who is the heir to the Black family fortune? > Harry: The heir to the Black family fortune is my godfather Sirius Black's younger brother, Regulus Black. > User: Isn't…
berbec on HNfirst question I asked, how old are you. apparently he's 41 years old and still attending hogwarts. The problem with these AI systems is that they are great for responding with…
andy0x2a on HNthat's really interesting. thanks for trying it. yeah, it doesn't seem to have a consistent notion of time and hallucinates regularly.
shahahmed on HN
Trademark and copyright legal risk
From 3 comments
The name Harry Potter is trademarked[1], and I'm pretty sure they'd go after this site for using Daniel Radcliff's promo pic without permission, particularly since this is a…
MPSimmons on HNGiven the use of various IP in a project for which you are soliciting payment, you have either done an amazing job wrangling licensing that doesn’t even require acknowledgement…
dragonwriter on HN>Would be happy to take it down if asked! this is an experiment for me, and don't expect it to be a product Putting a pricing page up was almost certainly an extremely bad idea.…
yodon on HN
Frequent timeouts and errors
From 2 comments
User How do most wizards die? avatar Harry Just like in the Muggle world, the causes of death for wizards can be various. Some die due to natural causes, like old age or…
hugh-avherald on HNGetting an occasional "Error generating response" but pretty cool overall :) great work.
samspenc on HN
Pricing is unjustified
From 2 comments
LOL, $99/month for a gimmick service worth $0.
herostratus101 on HNYour pricing is... uh... really something.
smoldesu on HN
Requests
Compare with Character AI
From 1 comment
i do throw a paywall on most of my projects. i'll both probably remove the paywall and this project entirely. but i was curious to see how people behaved with this bot and my…
shahahmed on HN
Support for less famous characters without fine tuning
From 1 comment
if I want to create a bot for a not so famous character, will it work without fine tuning?
billconan on HN
Questions
Does it remember earlier messages?
From 2 comments
It doesn't remember previous answer from what I see. It's just 1 question => One answer
davidguetta on HNI think it can remember 2 questions because I referred to my first question in my second question and it answered. First I asked about the invisibility cloak then I asked if I…
CyberWraith on HN
Alternatives named
Character AI
From 1 comment
I think it can remember 2 questions because I referred to my first question in my second question and it answered. First I asked about the invisibility cloak then I asked if I…
CyberWraith on HN