alt Hacker News(spoiler alert)
Buddy system is this year's April Fool's joke, you roll your own gacha pet that you get to keep. There are legendary pulls.
They expect it to go viral on Twitter so they are staggering the reveals.
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JohnLocke4 • today at 10:27 AM
You heard it here first
ares623 • today at 10:32 AM
So close to April Fool's too. I'm sure it will still be a surprise for a majority of their users.
lol that's funny, I have been working seriously [1] on a feature like this after first writing about it jokingly [2] earlier this year.
The joke was the assistant is a cat who is constantly sabotaging you, and you have to take care of it like a gacha pet.
The seriousness though is that actually, disembodied intelligences are weird, so giving them a face and a body and emotions is a natural thing, and we already see that with various AI mascots and characters coming into existence.
[1]: serious: https://github.com/mech-lang/mech/releases/tag/v0.3.1-beta
[2]: joke: https://github.com/cmontella/purrtran