Sudomake Friends, personalized AI personas in a Telegram group chat

Name: Sudomake Friends, personalized AI personas in a Telegram group chat
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Author: audiodude

by audiodude·Apr 16, 2026·7 points·1 comment

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AI Analysis

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Personality-first AI friends that actually text each other in your Telegram group chat.

Strengths

•Scrapes 14 platforms to build personality profiles, not just interest graphs
•TUI for holding, re-rolling, and editing friend candidates before deployment
•Timezone-aware scheduling makes bots feel human with natural silence patterns

Weaknesses

•AI companion space is extremely crowded with Character.ai, Replika, and dozens of clones
•Privacy concerns with scraping personal data, even if stored locally

Post Description

Virtual AI friends, personalized to you, that chat you (or don't!) on their own work/sleep schedules based on their timezones. They sometimes initiate chats. They sometimes go silent for hours. Just like real friends.

I've been "dogfooding" this for the past week, and I think it's actually kind of neat. It's way better than generically chatting with an LLM.

This repo includes a detailed setup wizard. You give it some info about yourself, which can include personal blogs/websites to scrape, github, mastodon, text documents, or just paragraphs you write off the top of your head. It builds a profile of you, and then builds _them_ off off that.

You invite your new friends to your group chat by selecting and possibly editing them in a TUI. Then you can just deploy to local Docker and forget about it. Too crepy? Drop the docker container and remove ~/.sudomake-friends.

I know this reeks of dystopian future, I get it. I think of it as a fun little toy, and I also kind of just want to see what the community feedback is.