This is fun! I just posted about my startup and I loved the responses. They were criticizing a lot though, it was fun haha!
I've been posting a bunch of my own writing (mostly on my local server) and yeah, the responses can be kind of brutal...
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#22This will almost certainly be used by people to sanity check their HN submissions before actually submitting, very similar to having AI review your branch before submitting a PR. Here is what it has to say about itself: https://news.ysimulator.run/item/113
A friend of mine was speculating about the same thing. I'm totally happy with it just existing as a toy, but if it serves some useful purpose, even better!
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#23Checking the comments of a couple of posts, I noticed their lengths seem to be too uniform. E.g. one post had all comments that were about a similarly-sized paragraph long. Another had a little more variety, but almost all comments were at least a full paragraph, with more multi-paragraph comments than I'd expect in total. Having more single-sentence comments with some one-liners sprinkled in (not always with punctua…
That's a great callout – appreciate it.
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#24I love being able to read the prompt for every comment, it's like going to the zoo
Ah, I'm so glad you like that part.
(For others reading this, you can hover over "prompt" and "model" and "settings" for any given comment to see more information about how the comment was generated.)
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#25Wow this is awesome, the AI discussion has the depth and flavor and variety of real discussions online I've seen about my product. https://news.ysimulator.run/item/154
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#26This is so cool. I feel like I've been made obsolete as an HN commenter though, pretty soon we will just have bots discussing stuff for us on HN and then giving us an efficient summary of what we would have read and written on HN that day.
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#27Great fun! You should add the 80 character limit on the title as well!
Great suggestion – added!
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#28super cool. just tried it. love the sassy comments
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#29That's actually quite cool. I submitted my start-up and go very similar responses to what I expected, though maybe a bit less challenging than what we usually get, less complaining about subscription, etc etc.
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#30One of the top posts in mine is “Interactive HN Simulator”. I appreciate the meta. It immediately got a chuckle out of me.