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Products that do what Skalpel AI does
Artificial Living OS
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Idyll: AI companions that remember, talk, and truly connect
2025
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Local AI that acts. Not chats. Installs in 30 seconds. 🦎
Mar 2026
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Hi HN community! We want to share AI-town, a deployable starter kit for building and customizing your own version of AI simulation - a virtual town where AI characters live, chat and socialize. Inspired by great work from the Stanford Generative Agent paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442). A few features: - Includes a convex.dev backed server-side game engine that handles global state - Multiplayer ready. Deployment ready - 100% Typescript - Easily customizable. You can fork it, change character memories, add new sprites/tiles and you have a custom AI simulation…
2023 · github.com
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Solo dev from Vienna. Skales is a local-first AI desktop agent for Windows, macOS, and Linux. v9.0.0 just shipped with Agent Skills (SKILL.md import from Claude Code, Codex, Copilot), autonomous coding (Codework), multi-agent teams (Organization), Computer Use, and 15+ providers including Ollama offline. No Docker, no terminal. Download, install, done. My 6-year-old built a Snake game with it. BSL-1.1, free for personal use. DevKit: https://github.com/skalesapp/devkit
Apr 2026 · github.com
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Hey HN! I've been building tooling for voice-driven apps over the past few months, as part of a hardware project. Someone suggested adapting the DSL to play Dungeons and Dragons. So, here we are! What is it? An AI-powered, voice-controlled D&D adventure set in the world of Dvorak. Talk to characters, explore locations, and shape the story using your words. Use your microphone to interact with the AI dungeon master. Explore freely – interrupt, ask questions, or take unexpected actions. If you make friends at the tavern, you can also just hang out there and chat. Hint: Talk to the bartender to…
2024 · pocket.computer
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Hi HN, I have been working on this website for a few weeks with some buddies of mine and would love if you checked it out. TuringJest provides a jackbox-esque experience with its two game modes. *One Shot Prompt* - Submit a prompt for all players (including the AI) to answer. - Answer your prompts in the way that you think ChatGPT would answer them. - Vote for who you think the real AI is. *Talk It Out* - Plan an event in a group chat with your friends. - Trick everyone into thinking you are the AI while voting for the real AI. Let me know what you think!
2023 · turingjest.app
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I have a favour to ask. I’ve been working for a while on Kalavai, a project to make distributed AI easy. There are brilliant tools out there to help AI hobbyists and devs on the software layer (shout out to vLLM and llamacpp amongst many others!) but it’s a jungle out there when it comes to procuring and managing the necessary hardware resources and orchestrating them. This has always led me to compromise on the size of the models I end up using (quantized versions, smaller models) to save cost or to play within the limits of my rig. Today I am happy to share the first public version of our…
2024 · github.com
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Hey HN! Dinoki is a 6MB native AI assistant with pixel pets that live on your desktop. Built for power users who want privacy, performance – and a bit of fun. See it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_pv2BU0CZA What makes it different: - 6MB native app (SwiftUI for macOS, WPF for Windows) – starts instantly - Zero telemetry – your API keys and data stay local - Pixel art companions with physics-based behaviors - Flexible AI support – OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter (300+ models), or Ollama (offline) Why pixel pets in an AI assistant? Beyond being fun, pixel art is…
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AI RPG where every choice shapes a living fantasy world
May 2026 · mythx.ai
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