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Re:Show HN: Geppetto, an open source AI companion for your S... by yreg on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @07:14PM (#39282822)
Haha, good name. When ChatGPT was released, together with a friend we personified it for fun and called "him" Geppetto. We've even had many conversations with ChatGPT trying to convince it by various strategies to accept the nickname (which it is rather hesitant to do).
Re:Show HN: Geppetto, an open source AI companion for your S... by nvader on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @09:34PM (#39283787)
But Geppetto was the scientist. The puppet was called Geppetto's Monster.
Re:Show HN: Geppetto, an open source AI companion for your S... by delichon on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @11:02PM (#39284341)

  Marduk 1st millennium BC
  Jehovah 2nd century BC
  Eliyahu of Chelm ~1640 
  Victor Frankenstein 1818
  Geppetto 1883
  Susan Calvin 1941
  Sivasubramanian Chandrasegarampillai 1982
  Noonien Soong 1990
Re:Show HN: Geppetto, an open source AI companion for your S... by simonebrunozzi on Sunday February 11, 2024 @11:35AM (#39336124)
Woodworker, not scientist [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geppetto