I appreciate you sharing this and it looks made with care. It also seems like a cool take on how to use LLMs.
This isn’t for me, but thanks for sharing.
Show HN: Private blogging and journaling with a simulated audience
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#12Hey team! I find journaling for a fictive audience to be more effective personally; since it forces me to try digest my thoughts for an external listener. Then why not add the actual fictive audience through LLMs? That's how this was born. Feel free to leave your thoughts/feedback here.
Given that LLMs have no understanding of the text, what is the point of it?
I feel people talk to LLMs in chat format just so they feel there's someone listening. This puts thats in a journaling/blogging context, hopefully delivering the same value in a unique context.
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#13This seems like a surefire way to build a private echo chamber. I doubt a simulated audience is going to challenge your thoughts or help find what you are trying to say.
That's (in my view) also not the point of journaling, but rather to blow off some steam and digest internal dialogue.
It might be interesting to have some of the "commenters" challenge or critique, as an option?
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#14I appreciate you sharing this and it looks made with care. It also seems like a cool take on how to use LLMs. This isn’t for me, but thanks for sharing.
Ofcourse! Thanks for the kind comment :)
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's (in my view) also not the point of journaling, but rather to blow off some steam and digest internal dialogue.
It might be interesting to have some of the "commenters" challenge or critique, as an option?
Yes definitely, I'd love to have a balance of empathy and alternative perspectives
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#16I do the opposite of this (release stuff publicly and don't have comments enabled) but this looks really nice for a specific kind of audience. I'm curious to see how it'll evolve and be received, good luck!
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
It might be interesting to have some of the "commenters" challenge or critique, as an option?
Yes definitely, I'd love to have a balance of empathy and alternative perspectives
Do the commenters reply to things now? It might be nice to have personas that usually reply, others that reply rarely, etc, and that way you might get long discussion chains, or drive-by comments, or anything in between.
Very interesting idea, in general!
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#19This seems like a surefire way to build a private echo chamber. I doubt a simulated audience is going to challenge your thoughts or help find what you are trying to say.
Very much like most of the substacks I see.
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#20This seems like a surefire way to build a private echo chamber. I doubt a simulated audience is going to challenge your thoughts or help find what you are trying to say.
Public social networks are already building echo chambers. At least this one could be made to not have supremacist spam all over it like Twitter/X. Is it really any worse? I guess it wouldn’t have real life impact with an audience of humans.