Author name: /u/LlamaEagle

Update on the offscreen lives system — shipped some of what this thread helped me figure out

/u/LlamaEagle / April 23, 2026

Posted a few days ago about how I built offscreen events for AI companions. The discussion here was genuinely useful — wanted to close the loop. A few things I shipped based on what came up: The surfaced_at flag suggestion from u/ultrathink-art was the…

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I gave my AI companions "offscreen lives" — events that happen while users aren’t talking to them. Surprisingly hard, here’s how it works.

/u/LlamaEagle / April 18, 2026

Most AI companion apps reset between conversations. The character has no continuity outside the chat window. I wanted mine to feel like real people with lives, so I built an "offscreen events" system. Every 8 hours (cooldown), each active com…