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Show HN: Syneva – An AI Chatbot Ported to a Kids' Tile-Based Limited Game Engine

https://sprig.hackclub.com/share/VzO62YQXBGOpcbj7xusB
2•kuberwastaken•1y ago

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kuberwastaken•1y ago
I made SYNEVA as a part of my fun-research repo while I learn about LLMs at https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/MiniLMs

I came across Sprig while Scrolling through Hack Club, it's a Javascript game engine that's like Scratch's older brother (fun fact, it's partially made by Scratch's creator too) but has it's own set of unique limitations because it runs on a custom hardware.

All sprites need to be made in Bitmap, you have to use single character variable names but most importantly, you can only use 8 characters to control the "game".

I had to make a virtual keyboard implementation (which was awful btw) using WASD to navigate keyboard, K to select and I to send the message.

also, it doesn't have any audio support and uses an event sequencer to get any music into it (got around it by making https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/Sprig-Music-Maker that converts midis to it)

SYNEVA is a rule based chatbot, so not technically AI but hey, still pretty fun and really cool to use (I also made it understand slang and some brainrot, so try that out too lol)

Hope you enjoy it :)

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1•aanet•1m ago•1 comments

A new way to use Tidewave: from your terminal or editor

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Receipt Parser API – Stop double-counting transactions when parsing receipts

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https://medium.com/@quarterdome/promotion-driven-development-fbc6f48d43e8
1•sanj•4m ago•0 comments

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1•bookofjoe•5m ago•1 comments

GPT Loves Chinese Gambling

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Gemma 4B vs. Gemini Flash on Tool Calling

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I stopped caring about programming terms

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A BrAIve New World for Credit

https://lesbarclays.substack.com/p/a-braive-new-world-for-credit
1•lesbarclays•12m ago•0 comments

The cost of being too patient

https://www.nber.org/papers/w26677
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3•dogline•16m ago•1 comments

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2•ball_of_lint•17m ago•1 comments

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3•galaxyLogic•24m ago•0 comments

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SIM Hijacking

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Why is zero plural? (2024)

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2•downbad_•34m ago•1 comments

Bun v1.4 with an additional 1,493 passed tests from the Node test suite

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1•CrimsonRain•35m ago•1 comments

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1•binyu•36m ago•0 comments