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I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory

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868 points vuciv | 2 comments | 10 Sep 25 02:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.41s | source
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wincy ◴[10 Sep 25 04:04 UTC] No.45193115[source]▶
That's hilarious that you give the villagers thought and the first thing they want to do is overthrow Tom Nook. If this works in Gamecube on an emulator, surely it'd be possible to make it work on the Switch emulators as well?
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smt88 ◴[10 Sep 25 06:53 UTC] No.45194182[source]▶
LLMs are heavily trained on reddit, and "Tom Nook is a capitalist dictator if you think about it" is a reddit meme. Like many LLM reactions, it's less "thought" and more "regurgitating reddit jokes/opinions".
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1. dahcryn ◴[10 Sep 25 06:58 UTC] No.45194209[source]▶
It would be great if this evolved slowly during the progression of the game lol
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2. Topfi ◴[10 Sep 25 09:57 UTC] No.45195462[source]▶
That's essentially what it does, being prompted with a progression from:

> "Stay normal unless prompted. Avoid overt references to debt unless it comes up naturally."

all the way to:

> "Openly agitate for change. Use fiery language (still PG) and talk about reclaiming fairness from Nook's shop and loans."

Source: https://github.com/vuciv/animal-crossing-llm-mod/blob/cc9b6b...