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Show HN: Waiting for LLMs Suck – Give your user a game

34 points - yesterday at 2:45 AM


Give your user a game while they wait for the LLM to return a result.

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  • rosenlykke

    today at 10:02 AM

    Could also be a quiz or a mini lecture. It knows all about the context you are in and the problem you are trying to solve, so might as well learn something.

    Like many others starting out, I built agents with personalities, multiple roles at each level etc. A great way to burn tokens but not effective at all in producing better outcomes.

    However, one great side effect was the learning I got from seeing the Marc Andreessen agent hash it out with the Ben Horowitz agent etc. That felt like the future of online courses.

    • dataviz1000

      yesterday at 3:58 AM

      That is awesome!

      It would help if you had a video or gif. I did command + shift + 5 on a mac and recorded. Asked the coding agent to speed it up, edit out some parts between timestamps, and put it in the docs. It did all that. I started an issue anywhere on GitHub, clicked the upload button, uploaded it, grabbed the URL, the coding agent did the rest. It was extremely easy. (Not too late!)

      I'm trying to turn my personal webpage into Breakout.

      If you are looking for some high quality simple JavaScript games to incorporate have a look at Jake Gordon's Games [0]

      [0] https://jakesgordon.com/games/

        • dalemhurley

          yesterday at 7:47 AM

          Thank you, added :)

            • xerox13ster

              today at 7:54 AM

              if these are meant to be spun up cheapy and quickly in the waiting time for token generation, then why not drop a call to it in a div and let us play with them on the github landing page?

      • vunderba

        yesterday at 4:20 AM

        Now's your chance to pull a Namco and file an equivalent patent for "LLM is working" minigames!

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loading_screen#Minigames

          • xerox13ster

            today at 7:56 AM

            Surely Google has some sort of patent for this due to the snake in the Youtube buffering icon.

            • dalemhurley

              yesterday at 7:27 AM

              Agh damn, now it is released to the public it is too late.

          • williamjackson

            yesterday at 3:53 AM

            I was really hoping for a gif or two!

              • dalemhurley

                yesterday at 7:47 AM

                Thank you, added :)

            • internetguy

              yesterday at 3:40 AM

              we've reached another level of dopamine-hit chasing....

                • AbbeFaria

                  yesterday at 4:49 AM

                  Random reward mechanisms have been woven into the very fabric of the digital world, so doesn’t surprise me.

                    • dalemhurley

                      yesterday at 7:29 AM

                      Maybe I should add slots to take it to the next level?

                      • dalemhurley

                        yesterday at 7:28 AM

                        Let’s keep adding more?

                    • dalemhurley

                      yesterday at 7:27 AM

                      Chase the high

                  • metalliqaz

                    yesterday at 3:57 AM

                    where are they hosted so i can play?