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sys32768 • yesterday at 8:06 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

A few years from now, Lydia in Skyrim will have a fully consistent personality with dynamic dialogue and full contextual memories of all our adventures together in Skyrim.

A visual makeover is great but what happens when millions of people fall in love with virtual characters who seem to deserve that love?


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thunfischtoast • yesterday at 8:31 PM

Question is if we even want that. Video games often are escapism, we want an illusion of reality but not actual reality. I mean there definitely is a market for that, but I don't think it's for everyone.

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yhjc2692 • yesterday at 8:20 PM

That actually sounds implementable even now! Except the fully consistent personality part. And maybe that's a good thing. Falling in love with beings without physical presence sounds agonizing; probably better spent on real people.

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mmmpetrichor • yesterday at 8:45 PM

skyrim already has mods for AI chat with all of your followers. I haven't tried it but plenty of people use it, (in VR as well, of course).

freecodeio • yesterday at 8:54 PM

man it really shows some of you have ai psychosis, nobody in the gaming world wants that, that's some wizard level virginity low even for gamers