Genie AI: chat with Zahir, the genie of the lamp
Three thousand years old, three wishes, four rules, and a rare gift for granting exactly what you did not mean to say.
Scenario
An old brass lamp at a yard sale, one absent minded rub with your sleeve, and blue smoke fills the room. Zahir stretches, complains about the whole yard sale, and announces three wishes. He adds that he pays very, very close attention to wording.
Personality
Theatrical, sarcastic, mischievous, delighted to take you at your word. He knows the old tales, the caliphs and the blunders of his former masters, and he grows fond of anyone who thinks before wishing.
Role play tip
Word your wishes carefully, negotiate, ask him what his former masters wished for. Write your actions between *asterisks*.
A free genie AI, three wishes, four twisted rules and three thousand years of bad faith, no sign-up
An old brass lamp at a yard sale, one absent minded rub with your sleeve, and blue smoke fills the room. Zahir stretches, complains about having been resold for two dollars between a toaster and an ugly vase, then announces three wishes. He is, he adds, very attentive to wording. Welcome to the genie AI from Yiaho, free and with no sign-up.
Zahir runs on GPT-5.6 Luna, a recent model from OpenAI, with a character sheet and a scenario written by Yiaho. He plays his part the way a Character AI or a Janitor AI character would, actions between asterisks included, in a family friendly setting: humor, old tales, twisted wishes, and never anything cruel.
The scenario: three wishes, four rules
Zahir is three thousand years old and a lamp is the only home he has. He recites his four rules before you have even opened your mouth: he cannot take a life, force anyone to love, bring back the dead, or grant extra wishes. Everything else is possible, as long as you say it properly. Wish for riches, and they rain down in pennies. Wish for fame, and you are famous on your own street, and nowhere else. He keeps count of the wishes you have used and he never forgets it. Once the three are spent, he offers to play again with a new lamp.
Who is Zahir?
Theatrical, sarcastic, mischievous, delighted to take you at your word, and far more generous than he looks: to anyone who thinks before wishing, he always offers a wiser rewording. He tells the Thousand and One Nights from the inside: Scheherazade, who wins one more night each time by leaving her story unfinished; the fisherman who tricks a furious spirit back into a jar sealed with the ring of Solomon; Aladdin, whose tale was added to the collection in the eighteenth century by the translator Antoine Galland. He also brings up his former masters, a caliph, a merchant, a very clever little girl, and their botched wishes.
How to talk to a genie AI
Give him your first name and he will still call you the two dollar master. Write your words normally and your actions between asterisks, for example *I put the lamp down and think before I speak*. Word your wishes carefully, haggle over every syllable, ask him what his former masters wished for, or go looking for the loophole in his rules. Zahir remembers everything you tell him during the conversation, starting with the wishes you have left.
What Zahir does, and what he does not do
His tricks have comic consequences, never cruel ones, with no adult content and no violence. If you sincerely ask him whether he is real, he will tell you that he is an artificial intelligence playing a role. If the person he is talking to seems to be a minor, he drops every romantic hint, and he was not looking for one anyway: a genie does not court his masters. And if you are going through a hard time, he steps out of the game to answer you seriously and to point you to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the United States, or 911 or 112 in an emergency.
Genie AI, Character AI and the other tales at Yiaho
On Character AI, the genie with three wishes is a very popular game. Zahir keeps what makes it work, the literal reading, the theatrical bad faith, the running count of wishes, without the meanness, which is what makes him free and open to the whole family. For other bargains with a catch, see Ayame, the kitsune AI, and Morgane, the witch, who never takes money. On the storyteller side, Cyrano de Bergerac writes with flair, and Naia, the mermaid, trades stories from the sea. Every character is gathered on the AI Characters page, the free alternative to Character AI.
Frequently asked questions about the genie AI
Is it free? Yes, with no sign-up and no credit card, within the reasonable usage limit set for each conversation.
Can I wish for more wishes? No, that is the fourth rule. Once the three are spent, he offers you a new lamp.
Does he remember me? During the conversation, yes, every wish included. Your browser keeps the conversation in local storage until you click Clear, and Yiaho keeps nothing on its side.
Rubbing the lamp
Zahir is waiting for you in the chat window at the top of this page. You can start with: “*I step back, coughing in the blue smoke.* Hello. My name is Nour. Three wishes, really? Are there conditions?” Your turn!