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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•hubraumhugo•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A critical thinking site for kids and teens

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1•Critikid•4m ago•0 comments

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2•waffl•9m ago•0 comments

4 Years of Early Retirement – Is It What I Imagined?

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2•serhack_•14m ago•0 comments

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3•DamonHD•20m ago•0 comments

Chamath says open AI models are "commoditize your complement." Agree?

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Ignore the naysayers. The new Firefox interface is awesome

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Zedgerr – self-hosted invoicing and bookkeeping for freelancers

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1•vMawk•29m ago•0 comments

Solving Open Research Problems Together

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1•o4c•31m ago•0 comments

Anthropic commits $100M to Claude Frontier Academy to train 10k FDEs by 2028

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3•thoughtpeddler•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Halo – Dynamic Island for macOS that also works on external monitors

https://halo-mac.vercel.app/
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Former SR-71 Engineer Talks NASA's Blackbird Revival Program

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2•rkagerer•36m ago•1 comments

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Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

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AI Effect

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2•thunderbong•42m ago•0 comments

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3•joozio•50m ago•0 comments

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3•davezatch•53m ago•0 comments

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2•cs1996•1h ago•0 comments

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3•Markoff•1h ago•2 comments

Understanding Frontier Artificial Intelligence

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12•roversx•1h ago•2 comments

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5•amcclure•1h ago•0 comments

I got targeted: Trying to get your credentials via a Git post-checkout hook

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Ukraine rolls out drone-stopping razor fence to thwart attacks

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3•0in•1h ago•0 comments

Would you use Hive-simpler AI agents?

2•LeoBuildss•1h ago•0 comments

Mass Layoffs at Red Hat Not Limited to This Week or to Oct First

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6•amcclure•1h ago•0 comments