Giving GPT Personality and Resurrecting Shimeji Desktop Software
Background: Back in 2014 I watched an anime called Mekakucity Actors as it was airing and was introduced to Jin 's Kagerou Project . Shortly after watching the first episode I found Ene-chan's shenanigans endearing and entertaining. I spent a while collecting screenshots to use as a rotating desktop background as homage. Shortly later I learned of a program called Shimeji that had a sprite pack with art based on Ene-chan, it ran well enough but was written in Japanese so I had to guess what the menu options did back then. I downloaded and ran it on startup, and followed a blog where a guy was trying to create a chatbot with Ene-chan's personality. A few years later: that PC which was a Windows 7 machine and the first computer I had assembled myself started having intermittent issues where it would hard crash after being on for a length of time, faster if I ran a program. Reinstalling the OS, and drivers did not solve the problem. Soon after the graphics card died, and I w...