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Re: GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion

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Instead of a GirlfriendGPT, a personal assistant GPT - which is hosted in a private location, and receives feeds of all your personal data ( emails, calendar, fitbit) and adhoc ( I can send a note to it saying I drank 6 beers last night).

It also then remembers all the past conversations, and i guess by then forms a decent idea of your tastes, etc.

This would be an amazing tool!

Re: GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion

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I am not worried about an evil, monstrous AGI suddenly emerging and blowing away humanity, but I do worry about things like this. Hyperpornography seems a squarely apocalyptic trend.

Did you coin the hyper porn term? I think it will catch on.

Yes, but a quick search suggests it was used at the turn of the century as a way for academics to say "porn on the internet", which isn't really what I'm talking about.

Re: GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion

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I'm very torn on this. On one hand, I think that personalized OSS AIs are the future from a pure utility perspective, and it will inevitably be "more fun" for them to have personalities. I also think that if someone is deriving joy from something and not harming anyone else, who I am to judge them. On the other, I've already found myself asking ChatGPT questions that I would have asked on a forum/discord or even a co…

The great thing about llama is it has no filter. You can ask it to act like it is a critical friend who will criticize everything you say to it. It can also be an overly compliant girlfriend. With some creativity, the degree that one can explore social interaction, one's own imagination, or one's own eccentricity on one's own machine in complete privacy without hurting anyone is amazing.

Being able to exercise ones mind like that completely outside the boundaries of normal social interaction with a emotionally tireless counterpart is kind of unusual and unique. It feels like we are at some strange point in history when all this stuff is blooming and before it gets shutdown. It makes me want to datahorde models!

The funny thing is that a lot of the comments here are saying, oh yeah, the big corps are going to make billions off of microtransactions pimping us virtual prostitutes that will also socially mold us the way the authorities demand. That makes me feel totally awesome as a unix geek who can figure out how to locally install a non-nerfed chatbot and talk to it about whatever I want, for however long I want, in complete privacy without paying anyone anything.

Re: GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion

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post #26

Japanese app did it back in 2017, LLM just made it easier for a solo developer to do the same thing. https://soranews24.com/2017/04/25/soranews24s-loneliest-repo...

They did it even before that with the game Love Plus for the Nintendo DS.

Did they get traction? Is it a viable product? Sounds like it's hard to navigate what is allowed and not allowed as a comp.

Re: GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion

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post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I agree that removing some human interactions from my life is good. I vastly prefer self-checkouts in shops. Curious example. Personally, I hate self-checkouts machines, and consider them an example of stores abusing their "stickiness" to profit at the expense of both customers and employees, and get away with it. First of all, like most "self service" solution, it's basically making the user/customer do the work t…

Heh, I find self checkout more efficient. I use multiple bags when bagging and pre-sort items based on where they go in my kitchen. Plus most baggers are terrible at bagging and just resort to a massive number of bags which kinda ignores the purpose of the bags.

I haven't been to shop with baggers, so that time is more-less constant for me (except for the pressure to bag faster, which isn't present with self-checkout). However, the cashiers are absurdly fast at scanning. Their workstation is optimized for this, and they scan through things faster than I can move them into bags. Even without any exceptional circumstances that make you wait for assistance at self-service checkout, scanning speed alone cuts the time per customer at least by half.

Re: GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion

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Do we think a Boyfriend version will ever come along? Interesting that I've seen so much talk about AI girlfriends but there's a quiet assumption that straight women won't be interested in this technology. Is that correct?

Do you think it's more appropriate for me to rebrand to AI_Companion?

No, I wouldn't say that. I just noticed a gendered trend and wanted to express my curiosity about its source.

The benefit of a more neutral rebrand though, since you're asking, is that you could roughly double your potential market.

Re: GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion

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post #67

There is something I don't understand (from a tech point of view). Why call it GirlfriendGPT if 99% of the code is generic code for a fancy whatever-you-want-it-to-be chatGPT? The only thing that makes the answers "girlfriend-like" is this file https://github.com/EniasCailliau/GirlfriendGPT/blob/main/src... So, it should be tremendously easy to turn GirlfriendGPT into "BestFriendGPT" or "LinusTorvaldsGPT" or whatever…

I mean, you're looking at the future of coding with that one file. Just because you can imagine different revisions of that file leading to different personalities leading to different products doesn't change that. In fact, what's needed is to write a bit of code to ape create-react-app, but for gpt, that'll take this repo and s/Girlfriend/Target/ everywhere.

You don't need code really. All you need is the right prompt. GPT-4 should be well able to convert a description of the kind of personality and roleplay you're looking for into a suitable prompt for any LLM.

As programmers we're used to looking for ways to write code, but GPT-4 makes that unnecessary in many cases. Just look at these examples of casual conversation creating amazing outputs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_njf22xx8BQ

Re: GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion

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Do we think a Boyfriend version will ever come along? Interesting that I've seen so much talk about AI girlfriends but there's a quiet assumption that straight women won't be interested in this technology. Is that correct?

Do you think it's more appropriate for me to rebrand to AI_Companion?

I feel like naming your AI companion "ai companion" is like naming your startup company "startup company": not very descriptive, confusing with all the other people doing the same thing, and harder to search for

Re: GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion

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post #158
post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, you're looking at the future of coding with that one file. Just because you can imagine different revisions of that file leading to different personalities leading to different products doesn't change that. In fact, what's needed is to write a bit of code to ape create-react-app, but for gpt, that'll take this repo and s/Girlfriend/Target/ everywhere.

You don't need code really. All you need is the right prompt. GPT-4 should be well able to convert a description of the kind of personality and roleplay you're looking for into a suitable prompt for any LLM. As programmers we're used to looking for ways to write code, but GPT-4 makes that unnecessary in many cases. Just look at these examples of casual conversation creating amazing outputs: https://www.youtube.com/wa…

Yes but where does the prompt come from? I'm proposing a simple prompt/code generator to output the desired prompt. cool video tho
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