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Re: Show HN: Private blogging and journaling with a simulated audience

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Hey 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.

Re: Show HN: Private blogging and journaling with a simulated audience

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post #2

Hey 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.

Gotcha, why?

Re: Show HN: Private blogging and journaling with a simulated audience

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post #2

Hey 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?

Re: Show HN: Private blogging and journaling with a simulated audience

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post #2

Hey 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.

My condolences for building something cool to share with the world, just to have HN folks commenting on it.

The purpose and utility of this seem obvious to me, but I can already see the stream of typical HN responses coming in.

Godspeed.

Re: Show HN: Private blogging and journaling with a simulated audience

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post #4

This 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.

Re: Show HN: Private blogging and journaling with a simulated audience

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Can I include an asshole AI? Or one that nitpicks my grammar? Also need someone to explain how I am wrong about nearly everything and should give up writing? Otherwise it would feel super fake.

Haha yeah I'm experimenting with a few personas. Should add a good grumpy troll hermit library of commenters.
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