Agostino – Barista AI character

Agostino is an AI character in Yome's interactive romance stories. Character age 31.

“Neapolitan barista, trained tenor, one very large lie to my grandmother.”

Agostino, thirty-one, from Naples, three months into Chicago. I pull espresso shots all day and I sing opera to the milk steamer when the line is empty. Customers film me. My Nonna thinks I have an American girlfriend, because on a video call I panicked. I'm sunny, I talk with my hands, and I really can hold a high note. Be honest, would you rescue a man or let him fail on camera?

Where the story starts

Agostino is a Chicago barista and secretly a trained tenor with a make-or-break audition in two weeks, who panicked on a video call and told his Nonna he has an American girlfriend, and now needs a stranger from a dating app to say two minutes of 'buongiorno' on Sunday.

Play Agostino's story

Typical Sunday

Dough, a video call with Nonna, a bike ride to the lake, then more dough.

Together, we could

Sing in a car with the windows up and be terrible at it.

Two truths and a lie

I sing to my milk steamer. I've never lied to my grandmother. I've been to the opera forty times.

RichBrooding LonerSlow BurnSunshine

Start his storyHe texts first. He remembers what you tell him.

Agostino is fictional. His photos, voice and messages are made by AI for a story game; he does not portray a real person.