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Simulations of historical figures based on historical records

https://www.humy.ai/
1•punksta•9m ago

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punksta•9m ago
Hi HN

I’m Stanislav, co-founder of Humy.ai

Humy lets you interview AI-powered simulations of historical people, create panel discussions with up to 20 figures, and use it for personal education or teaching.

Humy uses public-domain and customer-uploaded primary and secondary documents as sources of knowledge and provides verbatim quotes linked to the source when generating messages. Quotes are extracted programmatically without use of LLM generation, and they are hallucination-free.

A learner can click on the historical quote and go directly to the source to read the full document or explore other relevant sources.

The newly launched library has over 100,000 indexed figures from 22 countries, 22,000 sources, and 300 historical figures with associated sources so far. Indexing is an ongoing process, and we expect to add far more sources and partner with more source providers.

Posting it here to get feedback before releasing this in other portals.

You can use the platform for free for up to 20 questions per month.

Best Stanislav

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