Show HN: "Her" – AI Girlfriend app lets you fall in love with GPT in a new way (opens in new tab)

First of all a big thank you for checking it out.

- The onboarding experience was quite unintuitive for me. It involved swiping right to continue; swipe was only detected in a few areas of the screen (like the text inputs). It was extremely frustrating to figure out where to swipe on the "Choose My Look" screen. I suggest adding buttons so swipe isn't needed.

    Thank you. I guess as a creature of habit I had not noticed this.

- There is a "ContentView" text overlapping my system title bar.

    WOW, that looks a mess, and has never looked like that on my iPhone 14 pro, simulator or iPad pro. If you can I would really appreciate 

- "Unlock" didn't seem to unlock anything (lifetime free premium membership).

    If you got the "You're all set, John" message you will not hit the daily limit of 10 messages that non-members have.

- At first, the AI responded with JSON.

    Thank, yes it responds in mysterious ways sometimes, I've added checks for three or four different ways that I've encountered, but they keep coming. Will add this specific type to the list. Thanks!

- Screen capture of issues: https://imgur.com/1Lt1yU9

    Thank you so much for this, it was really helpful, even though I can't reproduce it.

- Overall, the app just looks/feels "unfinished."

    I totally get that given your experience.

Lets change the framing. Assuming this is bad for humanity and assuming someone will do this -- because it's unavoidable, right? -- what would the best way to introduce this to mankind be?

I imagine introducing a perfect "Her" with no flaws in personality, implementation, hosting (local hosting on cheap hardware, etc) would be the worst version. Humanity hasn't had time to adjust. Laws not written, social understanding of it not achieved, etc. It's a bomb, in it's most perfect form, unleashed. In this framing, waiting the longest possible time before it is unleashed seems the worst way to introduce humanity.

Alternatively, introducing it early gives humanity a far less tempting version of it. Both the implementation and personality are full of holes, flaws. We at least have a chance to understand it at a time when it is at it's weakest. When it's the least effective it can be at achieving whatever disastrous outcomes that are expected.

I don't agree with this in general. BUT, i'm framing that if we assume it's bad, and we assume it will happen regardless (i very much believe this), then wouldn't now be the time to "do this"? Now seems the best we can hope for. To learn from the experience.

In my view humanity will experience this regardless. I suspect we need to learn sooner than later. Whatever we may learn from it.

Thoughts?

Hi there, and thanks for the comment. No I'm sorry not right now, but an Android app would be pretty straight forward and I might create one when the app is more complete.