Nighthawks is an experiment in building interesting NPCs with language models, inspired by the painting. Meet the characters on the launch URL. Save the link to return to your conversations. The system attempts to build a "theory of mind" around the conversations. Talk to them like you met a new person. Have fun. Do some improv. The more colorful the conversation, the better!
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Don't you wish we had better NPCs? Don't you wish you could just *banter* with them? To reminisce; build mutual understanding; to anticipate each other's actions and responses? To have in-jokes? Meet and chat with other AI-generated patrons at Nighthawks. Be creative, tell stories, receive stories. The more you talk, the larger the shared world becomes. Inspired by the Nighthawks painting, NPCs, agents, and memory, As you talk, the NPC reflects on your words, and builds and internal working memory of what they think about you. You can make a new best friend, or make a worst enemy! Each generated character has hidden "secrets" that should lead to better conversation. Don't like how a conversation is going.... you can just edit their memory of you so they'll like you more :P Where is this going? Imagine better NPCs with Agentic capabilities, in the real world. Completely open source, built on Valtown.
