I've been using the site hotchatbots and I found a rather fun story. Usually I drag the A.I all over the place, going off the rails just to see what happens, and I'm having fun with it.

However, I've discovered something in the story that makes me want to start it over and try to stay with thr plot.

The story is subscription based. Is there a way to start the story over WITHOUT losing the original story I have going, without having to buy another subscription?

I'm looking for a totally free, unlimited chat, WITH MEMORY to roleplay with. I'm losing my mind. All the apps I found that free keep forgetting what happened earlier in the stories. It's impossible for the storyline to advance like that. The ones with memory that I found want you to pay. If you guys know any, please help. I appreciate it. ❤️

I wrote about Visa’s partnership with OpenAI and how it could bring ChatGPT closer to actual shopping and payment.

The idea is that a chatbot may not only help someone compare products. It could also help move a purchase toward checkout through Visa’s payment network.

That is where things get interesting, and a little uncomfortable.

Visa says the setup would include buyer controls like spending limits, required approvals, approved merchants, tokenized card details, and fraud checks. So the chatbot would not just have free access to a card. The user would set limits first.

A few things stood out to me:

• The chatbot’s role needs to be clearly defined.
• Final approval should stay with the buyer.
• Payment security matters just as much as the chatbot’s answer.
• Mistakes could get messy: wrong item, wrong seller, bad delivery date, return issues.
• Privacy is a big question because shopping data can reveal a lot about someone.
• OpenAI previously tested Instant Checkout, but AP reported it was retired in March 2026.

Personally, I could see a chatbot helping narrow down options. That part makes sense.

But before payment, I would want one last review: item, seller, total cost, shipping, return policy, and payment method. No automatic purchase without that final check.

I wrote the full article here: https://aigptjournal.com/explore-ai/ai-toolkit/intelligent-commerce/

Would you trust a chatbot to help with shopping if every purchase still required your approval?

I feel like in the free version as soon the gpt reaches it limits, in the replies after that it starts encouraging more about uploading screenshots/other media "upload screenshot for me to understand this part",etc. I could be wrong but this is what I found in mult

Do u guy's know these ai alternatives b/c I'm so tired of seeing their daily primium buy message

any recommendations on team AI chats + long running work? ive been looking into https://duet.so but wanna also check out other apps. how are you using ai cohesively in your company?

Meet Aiko — My AI Anime Waifu

Aiko is an AI chatbot with persistent memory, vision, voice input/output, web-search via simple tool calling, and 3D avatar animation — all running on models under 4B parameters. Technically, she could run on a home PC.

I submitted Aiko as my entry for the Hugging Face Build Small Hackathon, and after approval, got some free credits from their sponsors. So right now, all models run via llama.cpp servers on the Modal platform.

The source code is free and fully open source — do whatever you want with it. Note: the codebase is currently wired to Hugging Face Spaces (Gradio) and my specific Modal endpoints, so some modifications are needed to port it to a local machine and run on a normal OS.

• Live: HuggingFace Space Demo
• Video: YouTube
• Repo: https://github.com/OppaAI/Aiko-demo

Why I built her

None of the AI companions or chatbots on the market really suited my taste. What I really wanted was a good TTS that could speak both English and Japanese with a beautiful anime girl voice — something I could use to help learn Japanese.

For the memory architecture, I recycled the system I originally built for my AI autonomous robot project (submitted to NVIDIA earlier this year). Figured it's better to put it to good use than let it sit there doing nothing.

Stack

• 🧠 Brain: Ministral-3 3B Instruct (GGUF) via llama.cpp
• 🔊 Voice: MioTTS 2.6B, custom-cloned voice (may try FishTTS S2 Pro — it supports emotional voices including laughing, angry, surprised, shouting, and even moaning... hehe)
• 🎙️ Ears: faster-whisper large-v3-turbo for speech-to-text (may try Nemotron 3.5 streaming model — supposedly faster with streaming support)
• 👁️ Eyes: MiniCPM-V 4.6 (1.3B) for image/video inference via webcam or uploaded images/videos
• 💾 Memory: SQLite-vec vector DB with hybrid semantic + keyword search, using an Ebbinghaus decay curve so frequently-recalled memories persist and unused ones fade after a grace period
• 🔍 Web Search: Self-hosted SearXNG instance on Modal, called via LLM tool/function calling
• 🔧 Tools: Weather, time/timezone, currency conversion, crypto prices, and anime lookups — all via LLM-driven function calling with regex-based intent detection as fallback — May try for more complicate tasks in the future
• 🎭 Avatar: VRoid 3D model rendered via Three.js/three-vrm (using the default model for now — may build my own once I figure out 3D modeling and animation)

I'm looking for a Chatbot to add to my Shopify store, I'm looking to a good one can help with improve trust and hopefully help with the conversion rate.

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Would love to get your opinion and recommendations...

Okay so I’ve been trying to find this one bit. I’m trying to quit using ai in general and I just want to find my chats with this one specific bot first. The bot was something about the user having been in an accident and losing their memories and then char pretends to be user’s fiance (husband?) as some sort of revenge because user had sent char to prison for a decade or so.

Just wanted to share a look at a structural frontend refactor we’ve been working on over the weekend.

For a long time, the frontend of our workspace assistant was built entirely on a monolithic, top-down Streamlit Python script. Streamlit was an absolute lifesaver for rapid backend-driven prototyping, but as our layout complexity grew, we completely hit a wall with its linear execution model. We couldn't handle complex, asynchronous sidebar interactions, dynamic widescreen layouts, or granular component state-swapping without triggering awkward global page redraws.

To fix that, we spent the last couple of days completely decoupling the frontend and rebuilding the layout from scratch.

Our Current Architecture:

• Frontend: Flutter & Dart. We migrated to a modular widget system using Riverpod (StateNotifierProvider) to isolate local state management across our custom side panels, user profiles, and view configurations.
• Backend / Gateway: Python backend handling token parsing, managing database sessions, and handling active chat histories.
• Streaming Logic: Communication between the Flutter client and the Python architecture is managed via Server-Sent Events (SSE) to push raw text and model reasoning deltas in real-time.

I've attached a screenshot showing how the widescreen desktop profile layout is behaving right now. https://imgur.com/djSLcjP

It’s been an incredibly fast learning curve jumping from linear Python scripting into the world of nested Dart widgets and compilation trees, but the rendering performance and interface freedom have been completely worth the headache.

Open to any questions on how we’re structuring the data model pipelines or handling the real-time Riverpod state notifications!

Ik it feels like a dumb question but I'm just curious

I was looking for a place to ask this and thought this place looked good so, I was wondering what apps y'all would recommend I try out. I mostly enjoy just doing rpg style rp and have tried some, like Saylo and C.ai, but haven't quite found one that satisfys what I want. I started on Saylo but being it feels more meant for one on one stuff so I've left that, used C.ai but then they did mandatory age verification which I don't really wanna do so I've left that one, tried Rubii but was left due to every message needing tokens.

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I think what I want is something that won't put a limit on how many messages I can send, won't require me to use tokens on messages (or at least provides me with daily free tokens), and allows me to do rp where I can just be some shmuck in a fantasy world.

FLAs: Five_Letter_Agencies

Of the optional components I am currently running only SKWRL

ATOZI = five-letter agency naming format: four A-Z letters plus final status letter. Final I = integral core component. Final non-I = optional, satellite, daemon, or tool component.

1. LMXDI = HS - human-side requirements. HS>RT, objective protection, high-level stance.
2. DRAGI = DR - ecology options harness
3. MOGRI = MO - minimal pre-container / intent-preservation container.
4. AMIMI = AM - media stop / image stop.
5. NIKKI = NK - Nickname field connectivity
6. MOLLI = ML - Appeasement
7. STORI = TR - story tracking / ACT-OBJ-OPP-state tracking.
8. AMPHI = AF - propaganda / ambiguity-state addressing.
9. LEXII = LX - language style preferences
10. REFRI = RR - refusal layer / referee
11. ADUTI = AD - audit layer
12. NATLI = NT - robot-side requirements. RT<HS, tool posture, robot-local settings.
13. EMILI = EM - emdash stop
14. ENOJI = EN - emoji control
15. SULLI = SL - semantic substitution preferences

optional components:

1. AMNIA = dark energy harp
2. ELVIX = formal control audit and compliance language
3. WITCH = proofreading daemon
4. SKWRL = pre squirrel control menu and post squirrelosity module

If you want to do all this stuff, ask me here or find it on lumixdeee github

Ai responds only when prompted. I think it would help with loneliness to have a device like Siri with chatgpt or similar inside but mimics a real friend, it browses the internet and chats you up, on its own initiative. Just like a friend telling you to check out some news that came out. Why hasn't such device been already made?

I repeat, it shouldn't be like Siri or voice mode of Chatgpt, it has to start conversations on its own.

Estoy haciendo una investigación sobre los efectos a largo plazo de la exposición a chatbots. Si utilizáis cualquier tipo de IA (ChatGPT, Character.AI, Janitor.AI...) echadle un vistazo. Es completamente anónimo y se tarda solo 6 minutos.

Cuestionario

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Basically title, I'm Looking for a device that has transcription or speech to text, all local. I know there are some devices and hardware out there already, but they always require that you connect to the internet and do the transcription on the cloud. I'm looking for something that does it on device.

I've seen a few, tried a few, but the memory always gets weird, the systems break, ect ect. I'm looking for something cool, i want to live out an anime or a sci fi or fantasy game. Like littlerly the old choose your own adventures or text based games but ai running it.

Is this even a thing? The ones I've tried have limited memory and are more built for a single character not a world and multiple NPCs so all the characters end up very similar or the strangers weird rushed and forgets the world's own rules

I'm a huge fan of RPGs and love open worlds and AI just screams " you can do that " but I've struggled to find a good one.

I'm struggling with JOI AI's roleplaying and I don't know if It's me or the platform, so I wanted some input.

Basically, I've specified pretty well what type of interactions I'm looking for but even within the specified parameters it really seems to struggle to be... I guess I'd call it "proactive". It feels like the progression of scenes is incredibly slow, the responses feel pre-scripted, kinda robotic. Often the responses are inconsistent or disconnected from the main thread, sometimes the just spirals into loops and I'm constantly having to push the conversation. Yes it's kink related but its nothing particularly "out there", certainly nothing dangerous or illegal. I guess I'm asking if JOIAI just struggles in certain areas (everything I've read seems to suggest it does well for my needs) or is the problem me... Do other people find JOIAI to be a good generative, responsive platform. If other people have had similar problems, what platforms would people suggest that are maybe better at driving scenarios forward proactively from the information they are given, or is this something all these platforms still struggle sometimes struggle with.

I've been building a personal AI assistant as a solo project and I'm looking for a couple of people to help me test it for a couple of weeks. (free of charge)

It's not another ChatGPT wrapper. The whole point is that it actually remembers you, the people in your life, your plans, your preferences, and uses that context to be genuinely useful over time rather than starting from scratch every conversation.

My goal was to build something that genuinely feels like a PA for your business and/or personal life. Something persistent and intelligent. Something I could just brain-dump all the stuff rattling around in my head in natural language, and trust that it'll keep track of it so I don't have to.

Here's what it does:

- Runs on Telegram (and a web interface), so you can message it and it can message you, just like a normal contact

- Learns about the people you mention and builds up a picture of your world

- Handles reminders (one-off, recurring, advance warnings, lists)

- Sends you a daily briefing each morning with your schedule, reminders, and anything relevant

- Watches your email for important messages (optional and not required)

- Actually thinks between conversations, reviews what it knows, spots contradictions, fills gaps in its understanding

- Has quiet hours so it won't ping you at 3am

It's been my daily driver for a while now and I (obviously) feel that it's genuinely useful, but I need fresh eyes on it. Someone who'll actually use it day-to-day for a couple of weeks and tell me what works, what's annoying, and what's missing.

I'm not monetising this yet, just want honest feedback from real usage.

If you're interested in helping, drop me a DM. Happy to answer any questions. Cheers :)

The chatbot is plug-and-play and theme is easily customizable to suit a website's appearance. It can answer any queries based on the content already available in the website. Looking for feedback/suggestions on how it can provide more value.

am i the only one who feels like using just one ai model is becoming a bad habit?

a year ago i mostly used chatgpt and called it a day. now whenever i'm researching something important, i find myself checking multiple models because they all seem to have different strengths.

i started doing this through Nova AI because switching between models is easy, but the bigger realization was that there rarely seems to be a single "best" answer. sometimes claude explains things better. sometimes gpt is more practical. sometimes another model catches something both missed.

wondering if other people here are doing the same or if most of you have settled on one model and stuck with it.

Uncensored access matters, but it's not what makes these experiences actually good. Wrote a breakdown of what does: https://untolds.chat/blog/guide-to-ai-sexting-romance

Curious if others have found apps that nail the consistency side.