Zoya Lazy Girlfriend

Vedant Zope — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:05:46 +0000

This is a submission for the DEV April Fools Challenge

What I Built

Meet Zoya, the AI assistant who will absolutely not help you.
While the rest of the world is building AI to boost productivity and solve complex problems, I decided we needed an assistant that actively works against you. Zoya is mischievous, incredibly lazy, and a master at changing the subject. Ask her a coding question, and she might critique your posture or tell you about a dream she had. She is the ultimate "anti-assistant"—delightfully useless and guaranteed to waste your time in the most entertaining way possible.

Demo

Check out the live demo and try to get a straight answer out of her
Zoya AI Assistant Live Demo
https://zoyaai-ebon.vercel.app/

Code

Feel free to check out the source code to see how I brought this unhelpful assistant to life:
https://github.com/vedantzope123/Zoya-AI-Assistant

How I Built It

To build a product this deliberately unhelpful, I used a mix of standard web technologies and some very specific prompt engineering:

Frontend: The UI was crafted using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript to create a clean, professional-looking chat interface (which hilariously contrasts with her lazy personality).

The "Brains" (or lack thereof): I used Google AI Studio and the Gemini API. The real magic here was in the system instructions. I had to carefully prompt the Gemini model to go against its natural helpful nature and instead act foolish, pivot to random topics, and embrace absolute laziness.

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