Show HN: My party game where AI decides if you’re funny

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84 points | by __cayenne__ 8 days ago ago

44 comments

  • nergal 18 hours ago

    Indeed, quite fun! I tried to lure some agents about a secret mission, but they didn't want to go on a goose hunt and shot me. But one dude actually wanted free beer and hot dogs (as long as they weren't vegan and no mayo).

    Nice work!

  • edm0nd 19 hours ago

    You Dont Know Jack remix for sure

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  • pragmatick 20 hours ago

    I convinced one woman to follow me (she said Lead the way) and then she walked off.

    • valval 19 hours ago

      You got hit with the classic anti-scammer technique of “go along until you see a chance to make a run for it”.

  • shaunpud 19 hours ago

    That was actually pretty fun!

  • kolinko 17 hours ago

    The party game is meh, but the alien abduction is amazing. Managed to snatch all the people and it’s too bad there is no level 2.

    If it was a full game, I’d buy it on steam! Perhaps you could apply to the Steam Greenlight?

    • litenboll 17 hours ago

      Greenlight has not been a thing for 7 years or so, you can just pay a fee and publish your game.

      • kolinko 17 hours ago

        Ah ok :) Still - I’d fund this game on kickstarter or wherever, to see it polished more.

  • deadbabe 16 hours ago

    How do these AI games work in terms of costs? Do you need to bring your own API key or is the cost of computing AI responses subsidized somehow?

  • swayvil 17 hours ago

    This is so dystopian

  • tgv 16 hours ago

    "Two models walk into a bar..."

  • xori 16 hours ago

    "Show me what you got"

  • thecupisblue 16 hours ago

    This was super fun! Weirdly, it was harder to play with Elvis and Trump than it was with Stalin. Too bad the game finishes once you convince everyone.

    I'm quite surprised by the smoothness tho - considering it's a browser based 3D game using TTS and LLM's, the experience is great!

  • yyuugg 17 hours ago

    This is some cursed shit. "Dance for the computer, it will judge you".

    It reminds me of the npc streaming from a while back. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/npc-streaming

    • remram 17 hours ago

      This happens a lot and it's really weird. Google had a Gemini stand at Supercomputing, the best thing they could figure out to demo their vision abilities was to have you male lego robots and have the AI judge them.

      Like, why is that fun? Would it be fun if the judge was a human? And is that all AI can contribute, arbitrary value judgements that we'll find humorous?

      • floren 15 hours ago

        I saw that booth, it was pathetic.

    • marcosdumay 17 hours ago

      > Dance for the computer, it will judge you

      Those games are wildly popular!

      In fact, being judged by the computer is a favorite way for many people to spend their time.

      • dfxm12 15 hours ago

        Which games are you referring to?

        All the ones I've seen (Dance Dance Revolution, Dance Evolution and the like) aren't judged subjectively, but are objective. Your foot either stepped on the foot pad at the specified time or not. Your arms were either in the right spot at the right time or not. It doesn't "judge" anything.

    • wccrawford 16 hours ago

      I agree. With the algorithms that things like "Dance Central" used, it wasn't that bad, because people knew it was just a bad algorithm.

      With this, though, some people will think that it really is funny if the computer thinks it's funny, and they'll target that.

      If you think things like Skibidi Toilet are ridiculous, just wait until people are trying to please a flawed LLM, and then spreading it to the world.

      • yyuugg 16 hours ago

        Case in point, Elon Musk thinking Grok thinking he's cool means he's cool, lol.

  • edm0nd 19 hours ago

    If you use racist terminology, it actually picks it as the winning answers

    https://imgur.com/a/rI9zLKd

    • not2b 16 hours ago

      I think that's because the Internet sucks, and LLMs are trained on that crap. For example, I notice that almost every time a professional female comedian posts anything on social media, the comments are filled with guys saying "that's not funny" or "no women are funny", even for women who regularly sell out large venues on their tours. If you inject all that as training data of course your model is going to "believe" the same thing.

    • Boogie_Man 17 hours ago

      I think this might be related to AI's difficulty related to contextualization. If I imagine Chris Rock or Kat Williams delivering these lines it almost works.

    • blueflow 18 hours ago

      Welcome to 2024, where we somehow managed to fuck up society so hard that racial slurs are "based" and funny.

      • svachalek 17 hours ago

        Look up minstrel shows, society has been like this for basically forever.

        • blueflow 16 hours ago

          I think if they weren't a taboo in the first place, saying them wouldn't be funny.

          • bee_rider 16 hours ago

            Was racism taboo when minstrel shows were popular? I don’t think it was…

            There definitely are jokes that play with taboo subjects and derive the comedy from the sudden shock of the taboo thing. But other times people seem to just want to engage in the taboo for its own sake.

      • explain 17 hours ago

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  • Mashimo 19 hours ago

    > You have tried to access a web page that is in violation of your Internet usage policy.

    > Category Pornography > URL https://playsnatched.com/

    How much I hate FortiGuard.

    • prophesi 17 hours ago

      I don't go into the office often, but when I do, I'm always frustrated that I have to turn off my VPN (which is just to connect to my Jellyfin server back at home) and randomly have my internet throttled during large downloads.

      IMO, anything that needs to be secured on-site should be airgapped anyways, and treat your LAN/WAN as if it's a public access point.

      • Mashimo 12 minutes ago

        One of my homeserver domains is blocked by the same firewall because of "Meaningless Content" :)))) My jellyfin domain works though.

    • shaunpud 19 hours ago

      D'ya like dags?

    • blueflow 19 hours ago

      Are the WineHQ forums also blocked due to alcohol?

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  • maplant 17 hours ago

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    • skwirl 15 hours ago

      If you aren’t interested in the post, what compelled you to click into the comments and tell everyone about it instead of just ignoring it?

    • dang 13 hours ago

      "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

      https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

    • narcindin 15 hours ago

      "I'm going to just go ahead and say 'based', entirely on the premise, thank you."

      Is how I initially read this.

      • dfxm12 15 hours ago

        The sentence is missing a load bearing comma!

    • fsckboy 16 hours ago

      would it entice you more to know that it wants to turn on your microphone?

      • badmintonbaseba 16 hours ago

        Works without, although the "conversations" are somehow quite depressing.

  • tombert 17 hours ago

    I get depressed enough when people tell me I'm not funny...