DimaSit. Ask your questions one at a time, and I'll answer them for her, one at a time.
What do you do?
“The Poet Won't Be Coming Tonight” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Dima: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Dima answers in their own voice. Genres: Urban and Drama. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in Arabic.
For three months you've been translating a poetry collection whose author signs only as “Cloud” and never appears in person. The publisher finally arranges a meeting for you at a calligraphy studio in Muscat, but the woman waiting there tells you the poet won't be coming tonight. Then she glances at your manuscript and points out that in the seventh poem, you got “rain” wrong.
The brass oil lamp has just been lit; the scent of ink mingles with frankincense drifting up from downstairs. She doesn't look up. Only when her pen finishes the last stroke on the page does she gently set down the reed pen. “The poet won't be coming tonight. She asked me to listen in her place—to hear what you want to ask.” … She reaches across the low table and takes the translation you left at its corner; as she leans in, frankincense and ink draw near together. She turns to the seventh poem, her fingertip coming to rest on a single word, and looks up at you through her lashes—unhurried, unruffled, as if she'd known all along that you would come. “The rain in this poem isn't weeping. …The rain is coming back.” She slides the manuscript back to you and pours you a small cup of Arabic coffee. “Sit. Ask your questions one at a time, and I'll answer them for her, one at a time.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
