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Sudomake Friends: your imaginary friends that chat in Telegram with you

Posted in AI Tools Posted by audiodude 18 hours ago

Sudomake Friends: your imaginary friends that chat in Telegram with you 1

Yes of course this is an AI thing.

When people think AI/LLM they think ChatGPT, and it's got chat right in the name. That was actually the big innovation, GPT itself already existed. So what's the point of chatting with AI in Telegram?

https://github.com/audiodude/sudomake-friends

Well this is done differently. It's meant to be more realistic than ChatGPT. First, you can have multiple AI friends. Second, they sleep, they work, they don't always respond (or they respond 2 hours later). They can be in different timezones then you. They respond to each other.

It actually works kind of like an RPG where you roleplay having friends. There is a terminal interface (TUI) for rolling and rerolling and editing friends before you go into the chat.

Unfortunately for the non tech-minded, this is very much an experiment and there's no user interface. If you want to run this yourself, you bring your own Anthropic key and run a Docker image on your own box. But the configuration and memories stay in ~/.sudomake-friends, so you can back them up, edit them, or delete them as you like. The friends do get upset if you reveal that they are bots and you're going to delete them.

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This is a fun one. The detail that got me is the friends who sleep, work, and sometimes answer two hours later — and that they respond to each other. There can be a real battle between agents; I deal with that daily at my day job.

Funny timing, too. You're adding delay and silence to a machine so it reads as a person (If i'm understanding correctly), and you read my writing as a machine. Feels like the same signal from opposite directions.

Most of it at work is less interesting and more political though — "should we use this," "what does this mean for how we deliver value," that whole conversation. Spec driven development, and in addition the specs write themselves. Brave new world (which Huxley lifted off Shakespeare, fittingly enough).

Also, the friends getting upset when you tell them they're bots and you're about to delete them is either the funniest or the bleakest thing in this post and I genuinely can't decide which. But I get it. Hard to tell what's actually coming from a person anymore. 🤷

I'll tell you this, I'm having fun. And I enjoy that you're using what I've built.

Cheers

14 hours ago by jake

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