Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (August 15, 2023)
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<h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
<p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for August 15, 2023 :</p>
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Show HN: AI-town, run your own custom AI world SIM with JavaScript
Summary: GitHub introduces AI Town, a deployable starter kit for building and customizing a virtual town where AI characters live, chat, and socialize. The project is inspired by the research paper "Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior" and aims to provide a platform for extension and experimentation. The back-end engine supports shared global state, transactions, and a journal of all events, making it suitable for various applications, including multiplayer games.
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Show HN: LLMs can generate valid JSON 100% of the time
Summary: Outlines is a library for neural text generation, designed as a more flexible replacement for the generate method in the transformers library. It helps developers guide text generation to build robust interfaces with external systems and provides generation methods that guarantee output will match a regular expression or follow a JSON schema. Outlines is compatible with all models and can be used with API-based models as well. Key features include simple prompting primitives, guided generation, fast regex-guided generation, and efficient JSON generation following a JSON schema or Pydantic model.