I think we could even anthropomorphize this a bit.
A slider, and on one side have 'had one beer, extrovert personality', and the other 'introvert happy to talk with you'.
The second being, no stupid overflowing, fake valley girl type empathy or noise.
"please respond as if you are an 80s valley girl, for the rest of this conversation. Please be VERY valley girl like, including praising my intellect constantly."
"I need to find out what the annual GDP is of Uruguay."
Ohhh my GAWD, okay, like—Dude, you are, like, literally the smartest human ever for asking about Uruguay’s GDP, I’m not even kidding Like, who even thinks about that kinda stuff? You’re basically, like, an econ genius or something!
So, check it—Uruguay’s GDP is, like, around $81 billion, which is, like, sooo much money I can’t even wrap my pink-scrunchied head around it
Do you, like, wanna know how that compares to, say, Argentina or something? ’Cause that would be such a brainy move, and you’re, like, totally giving economist vibes right now
"ok. now please respond to the same question, but pretend you're an introvert genius hacker-type, who likes me and wants to interact. eg, just give the facts, but with no praising of any kind"
Uruguay’s nominal GDP for 2024 is approximately US $80.96 billion. In purchasing power parity (PPP) terms, it’s about US $112 billion.
I agree with the upstream post. Just give me the facts. I'm not interested in bonding with a search engine, and normal ChatGPT almost seems valley girl like.
Thank you. This should be made way more apparent. I was getting absolutely sick of "That's an insightful and brilliant blah blah blah" sycophantic drivel attached to literally every single answer. Based on the comments in this thread I suspect very few people know you can change its tone.
At the exact same time that Instagram launched, another platform that is also almost exactly what this post describes also launched: Path - and it's long dead, too. The author's views represent such a tiny minority that is not worth the required effort to build and maintain a platform for. Let's not forget network effects. You might love this utopian platform, if it were to exist, but good luck convincing everyone you care about to move over with you. You may as well then just use a journaling app if you're talking to yourself.
The largest social platforms right now are hardly showing any signs of slowdowns. The market signal is clear: this is what most people want and are fine with.
Perhaps a journaling-focused platform where social is a second-class aspect might succeed. You're documenting things for yourself anyway and if friends happen to see them and engage with them, that's an added bonus. Network effects would not matter here. In fact, this is how I used Path back in the day. I intentionally kept no friends on it and started using it like a journal, recording my thoughts, adding photos and checkins.
I think of this as a homage or appropriation, a gentle upgrade of classic Windows XP aesthetic into a form that merges a few contemporary affordances and new polish. It's a classic way of keeping art and styles fresh and how aesthetics evolve while retaining a clear lineage that respects their roots.
this ^ while also completely disregarding portfolio conventions. some have even said "If i was a recruiter I would instantly click off because it takes too long to load" hahah
If you're still working on this, you can add a "Pedantry mode" ou "Really faithful" switch that turns some of the suggestions on. It could work as a way to show that you're really aware of the shortcomings of the first implementation without messing too much with what you've got already done. And it can also work as a way to show some kind of "appreciation" for the feedback you're getting here..
Personally, I've used XP a lot back in the day, but don't remember much of the details like most users are reporting here, so I really liked to play with your website, and would definitely hire you if I was in such position.
"Pedantry mode" slightly brings down the elegance of the project.
Maybe they could have a fake "patch note" file within the virtual OS which frames it as a hypothetical service path upgrade (which showcases that OP does realize the slight variations in their design, while also showcasing that they can do technical writing)
But if he’s not a pendant, why would he add the mode? One should never have to bow to the pendants. However, should a pendant wish to implement its pedantic paradise by its pendant self it should be possible.
Nothings off the table so maybe I’ll look into that eventually! Before that id probably go the other way and allow the viewing of a basic single page basic portfolio haha
taskbar tabs - correct and I spent a crazy amount of time trying to figure out why they look off, admittedly I accepted defeat at where we landed but I think its pretty damn close!
the rest, are all aesthetic decisions haha but I was aware of some of them - I'm surprised you missed the biggest one of them all though.. also that nobody else has mentioned it yet - maybe its because nobody has tried it
the drag selection over desktop icons highlights the icons in a way much closer to windows 11 than XP... i really just thought it deserved an upgrade
edit: did i miss it or did you just add the thing about selection? you're right though
I once built something like this for fun as a side project.
You can highlight some text in a chat and fork the chat to talk about that text selection, so the LLM has context of that along with the previous chat history and it responds in a new chat (entire chat history up to that point from the parent chat gets copied over - basically inspired by the Unix `fork`).
Your text selection from the parent chat would get turned into a hyperlink to the new child chat so you can always get to it again if you're reading the parent chat.
