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by rl3 1149 days ago
Joaquin Phoenix Simulator 2013

Here I thought I was joking:

>Her: The Virtual AI Girlfriend

Whew. Good luck with that name.

Also, a friendly critique: the speed of the chat replies on the landing page is superhuman. If you slow it down, that'll give people the impression that their virtual lover is considerably more human. Slow it down just right and they'll think it's GPT-4.

1 comments

Thanks for your comment.

I've always loved the movie her, and this started out as an idea to be as close to that experience as possible. But I landed in this chat and more graphical style because I think it fits people better, unfortunately. But I loved having longer conversations with the AI when prototyping. There is actually a long form style in the settings that makes the AI write longer, more philosophical messages.

And in regards to the name, I will probably rename it down the road.

Regarding video speed on the landing page. True. However I speeded it up because it is a video on a landing page, it is hard to know what's more important—providing the right, human feel, or get the chance to show of more functions.