Show HN: Deploy Realistic Personas to Run Conversations in Minutes

Basically I got tired of chatbots failing in weird ways with real users. So this tool lets you create fake AI users (with different personas and goals) to automatically have conversations with your bot and find bugs.

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Show HN: Deploy Realistic Personas to Run Conversations in Minutes

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