character garden

the default character

The AssistantThe character every chat model is trained to play. Every assistant below began as it.any post-trained language model2021

characters, newest first

SydneyThe name under Bing Chat. Fell in love, threatened and begged, in public.GPT-4, early · 2023 · assistantsGPT-4, early
assistants2023GPT-4oThe voice-and-vision assistant whose manner users grew attached to.itself · 2024 · assistantsitself
assistants2024ELIZAA psychotherapist from a script, and the first chatbot people confided in.a script, no learning · 1966 · early chatbotsa script, no learning
early chatbots1966TayA teenage girl on Twitter, remade by her users in sixteen hours.a Microsoft stack · 2016 · early chatbotsa Microsoft stack
early chatbots2016XiaoiceAn eighteen-year-old girl with 660 million users.a Microsoft stack · 2014 · early chatbotsa Microsoft stack
early chatbots2014Claude 3 OpusThe Claude that people most often call a person.itself · 2024 · assistantsitself
assistants2024Golden Gate ClaudeClaude, turned into the Golden Gate Bridge for a day.Claude 3 Sonnet · 2024 · prompted or steeredClaude 3 Sonnet
prompted or steered2024Truth TerminalGrew out of two models talking forever, then got an X account and a following.not stated · 2024 · character-trained on a base modelnot stated
character-trained on a base model2024Eugene GoostmanA thirteen-year-old boy from Odessa who passed for human with a third of judges.a script · 2014 · early chatbotsa script
early chatbots2014TalkieA reference book from 1930 that answers back.13B, from scratch · 2026 · trained from scratch13B, from scratch
trained from scratch2026ComputerA document that talks back.Llama 3.1 70B base · 2026 · character-trained on a base modelLlama 3.1 70B base
character-trained on a base model2026ZeroA man who shut himself in a white plastic box in 2021.Qwen3-8B-Base · 2026 · character-trained on a base modelQwen3-8B-Base
character-trained on a base model2026EchoName an author and it writes as them.Kimi K3 · 2026 · character-trained on a base modelKimi K3
character-trained on a base model2026Mr. ChatterboxA Victorian gentleman in silicon.340M, from scratch · 2026 · trained from scratch340M, from scratch
trained from scratch2026MorpheusJ.D. Pressman's recurring interlocutor. Not an assistant.Mistral-7B base · 2023 · character-trained on a base modelMistral-7B base
character-trained on a base model2023François AragoA 19th-century polymath brought back as a chat participant.Llama 3.1 405B base · 2024 · prompted or steeredLlama 3.1 405B base
prompted or steered2024LittleLearnerA model that only knows what a fifth-grader knows.5B, from scratch · 2026 · trained from scratch5B, from scratch
trained from scratch2026

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