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AI · June 18, 2024

YouSim – a fun, open-ended demo to explore the multiverse of identities

Hey HN, it's Vineeth from Plastic Labs (https://plasticlabs.ai) and we built this demo/game to showcase the latent capabilities of language models to simulate identities. We wrote more about what it is and how to use it on our blog (https://blog.plasticlabs.ai/blog/YouSim;-Explore-The-Multive...), but I'll try to quickly summarize. We took heavy inspiration from projects like WorldSim, WebSim, and Infinite Backrooms and prompted Claude Opus to act like a CLI interface that can simulate these identities while another instance will interact with the CLI. To…

YouSim – a fun, open-ended demo to explore the multiverse of identities launched on June 18, 2024 with 6 votes, #1,458 of 4,672 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

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Hey HN, it's Vineeth from Plastic Labs (https://plasticlabs.ai) and we built this demo/game to showcase the latent capabilities of language models to simulate identities. We wrote more about what it is and how to use it on our blog…

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