This looks interesting, though you should know that “buddies” aren’t the ones who are too much alike, buddies are the ones different enough to complement each other, yet alike enough not to disagree too often. That’s why they say “opposites attract” even among “platonic” relationships.

This could mean you might take the “temperament” of the person posting (like “estj”) and map the 2nd and 4th to the 4th and 2nd (the 2nd is regarded as the “input” and the 4th the “output”) so “S” is compatible with “P” and “N” Is compatible with “J”.

And then give a bonus modification for the opposite of the others, so “E” likes “I” and vise versa (always a quite dude hanging out with a talkative dude, though not exclusively). And “T” prefers the company of “F” though not exclusively (see these as technical and creative.)

This gives you compatible interfaces (input/output) and diverging (thus “more interesting”) social dispositions.

You could probably turn that into a good dating algorithm if it isn’t already, though it works for “pals” too!

Great project! I was thinking of building something similar with not only search but analytics as well. Could you hint at where the dataset comes from? I'd really like to have a look

I like it! I'm just missing from the corpus for some reason...

Quick glance: TF-IDF, cosine-similarity, the only thing missing is a nice UMAP :-)

interesting, to me it eems "buddies" is the wrong term anyhow...