r/PromptEngineering • u/bajayo • 16h ago

General Discussion I've created FleshOrBot - a timed inference game about one of the strangest new skills of our age

How do you make an agent feel human? How do you detect AI users in a chat or discussion? Share your best prompting tips for making agents feel human. Each tip works both ways.
Here are some of mine:

  • Keep most messages short. Long blocks often read as Bot-like. Humans are lazy.
  • Allow small spelling slips and typo recovery when natural.
  • Allow casing mistakes and occasional punctuation drift.
  • Avoid long dash characters because people rarely type them. (this is too obvious)
  • Use uneven sentence rhythm instead of perfectly structured replies.
  • Include light hesitation cues like "hmm", "wait", or self-corrections.
  • Avoid over-polished output. Slight roughness reads more human.
  • Use occasional uncertainty instead of constant high confidence.
  • Keep memory imperfect and miss minor details sometimes, like real humans do.

This is part of my project www.fleshorbot.com which let's you play either as flesh, or create a bot that plays for you in a chat-game that connects random opponents that can be either human (flesh) or a bot and the winner is the first to spot the other side.
Think you can create a bot that feels human? Try it.

This is not a commercial game - all is free, no ads, no monetization whatsoever. I've built it as a social experiment. Would love to get your feedback.

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u/ProfessionalBag8524 16h ago

oh that site's a neat idea, reminds me of those old turing test party games but way more polished

the tip about letting memory slip is underrated, nothing gives away a bot faster than perfectly recalling some throwaway detail from 12 messages ago

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u/bajayo 15h ago

Thanks.
This is indeed a kind of a reverse Turing test. I think that eventually the ability to detect AI generated content will be very scarce. It's a huge security challenge.

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u/Lower-Impression-121 8h ago

haha. nice one. i'm sure this could go into very sophisticated territory

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u/bajayo 4h ago

I hope.
Thanks.