An LLM NPC Inside Ocarina of Time, Running on the N64 CPU
A transformer generating dialogue on the Nintendo 64's 1996 VR4300 - not a lookup table, not an API call.
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An LLM NPC Inside Ocarina of Time, Running on the N64 CPU
A transformer generating dialogue on the Nintendo 64's 1996 VR4300 - not a lookup table, not an API call.
Aug 26, 20264 min readAn LLM NPC Inside Ocarina of Time, Running on the N64 CPU
A transformer generating dialogue on the Nintendo 64's 1996 VR4300 - not a lookup table, not an API call.
Aug 26, 20264 min readAn LLM NPC Inside Ocarina of Time, Running on the N64 CPU
A transformer generating dialogue on the Nintendo 64's 1996 VR4300 - not a lookup table, not an API call.
Aug 26, 20264 min read
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