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Show HN: Waiting for LLMs Suck – Give your user a game
Give your user a game while they wait for the LLM to return a result.
- internetguy 6mo agowe've reached another level of dopamine-hit chasing....
- AbbeFaria 6mo agoRandom reward mechanisms have been woven into the very fabric of the digital world, so doesn’t surprise me.
- dalemhurley 6mo agoLet’s keep adding more?
- dalemhurley 6mo agoMaybe I should add slots to take it to the next level?
- dalemhurley 6mo agoChase the high
- williamjackson 6mo agoI was really hoping for a gif or two!
- dalemhurley 6mo agoThank you, added :)
- metalliqaz 6mo agowhere are they hosted so i can play?
- dataviz1000 6mo agoThat 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/ https://jakesgordon.com/games/
- dalemhurley 6mo agoThank you, added :)
- xerox13ster 6mo agoif 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 6mo agoNow'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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loading_screen#Minigames
- dalemhurley 6mo agoAgh damn, now it is released to the public it is too late.
- xerox13ster 6mo agoSurely Google has some sort of patent for this due to the snake in the Youtube buffering icon.
- vunderba 6mo agoI wonder if the expired Namco patent was too similar to prevent them from taking a patent out, or alternatively maybe it was just an easter egg and they didn't pursue it. Slightly related, I wish my building complex had wall panel mini-games (like trivia), we've got the slowest elevators in existence.
- rosenlykke 6mo agoCould 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.
- yuppiepuppie 6mo agoCool idea! I was thinking about a similar concept while developing https://hnarcade.com https://hnarcade.com While a user waits for whatever they are doing, redirect them to a game. Perhaps you’ve given me the inspiration to hack something together :)
- fragmede 6mo agoWaymo's need this!