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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•11mo ago

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kuberwastaken•11mo 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 :)

P – Formal Modeling and Analysis of Distributed Systems from AWS

https://p-org.github.io/P/
1•polskibus•2m ago•0 comments

Void: A physics-aware video editing tool by Netflix

https://void-model.github.io/
1•Otterly99•3m ago•0 comments

The AI writing witchhunt is pointless

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1•speckx•3m ago•0 comments

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2•joozio•9m ago•0 comments

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1•mitchbob•9m ago•1 comments

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A Close Look at Security Envelope Patterns

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AI Aggregation Affects Knowledge

https://www.nber.org/papers/w35036
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The OpenAI Safety Fellowship

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1•surprisetalk•11m ago•0 comments

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3•nathanmarz•14m ago•0 comments

The frontline is like Terminator: fighting robots give Ukraine hope in war

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5•tanelpoder•15m ago•0 comments

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3•clcaev•17m ago•1 comments

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4•sunbagger•19m ago•0 comments

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2•surprisetalk•23m ago•0 comments

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3•carabiner•24m ago•0 comments

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2•gmays•26m ago•0 comments

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2•PaulHoule•30m ago•0 comments

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3•ramon156•31m ago•0 comments

Bfloat16 from Scratch

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7•zdw•33m ago•7 comments