2 days ago
Thurs Apr 24, 2025 1:43pm PST
Show HN: Chat with AI copies of all HN users, like sama, dang, and even yourself
Hey HN, I'm Chris. I've been working on creating personalized AI chatbots by grounding them in real conversations.

Feeling inspired by antirez's recent post ("Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43705632), I wondered: could I use the HN comment data referenced in that post to create virtual versions of... every user on Hacker News?

A ~week later, here we are: https://lexikon.ai/dataset/hn

The database contains every user who has commented at least 200 words, and when you search for a user, we'll process their history in realtime to create a personalized AI chatbot of them on-the-fly (it'll take a few minutes).

There's no login required, and conversations aren't recorded or stored anywhere, nor are they trained on.

It surprised me at how fun it actually is. Give it a shot, would love to know what y'all think--

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