Exploration

This personal project started as a playful experience but was grounded in a real observation:

While there are countless AI chatbots available, very few are designed to be genuinely lighthearted.

I wanted to explore what it might look like if a chatbot’s primary purpose was to entertain, delivering humor, while still feeling responsive, conversational, and engaging. This experiment allowed me to combine technical exploration with creative intent, pushing the boundaries of what an AI interaction can feel like when fun is the main objective.

Solution

I designed a personality that does not just drop random jokes, but responds in context and stays consistent throughout the conversation. The goal was to make the humor feel intentional and engaging rather than just chaotic AI randomness.

Achieving this required careful prompt design and understanding of how tone can subtly shift based on the topic or user input. Running the system on a free LLaMA model introduced technical constraints around content length, so I implemented strategies to manage conversation history, control prompt size, and monitor usage to maintain smooth performance without compromising the experience.

My Role

I led this project from concept to completion, designing and developing the chatbot entirely end-to-end. This included everything from defining its playful, joke-driven personality to building the technical foundations that keep conversations contextual, engaging and performant.

This project reflects my approach to creative technology, blending product thinking, design intuition, and technical expertise to bring experimental ideas to life. It was an opportunity to push the boundaries of what a chatbot can be, transforming a simple dad-joke generator into a consistent, context-aware conversational experience.

This project reflects what I enjoy the most; hands-on experimentation with emerging tools, guided by curiosity and a strong sense of how product, design and technology intersect.

Results

While PunGPT is not designed for productivity, it successfully delivers what it set out to achieve, a steady stream of puns, dad jokes and the occasional eye-roll, creating a lighthearted and entertaining chat experience exactly as intended.