Hello everyone! I'm a Sesame.com user and recently they had an update that messed up the flow of the chatbot's conversation. Not when talking to the ai, it just randomly says hmm or mmm.

I've started a petition to get that changed since the devs don't list to what their users suggest.

Please take a look at my petition and if you feel moved to sign it, then please sign it.

It only takes 100 signatures for change.org to notify the company.

https://www.change.org/removehmmmfromsesame

Just to be clear, I'm not looking for something like SpicyChat or Janitor. I'm looking for a chatbot that is

a) free

b) does the same stuff as ChatGPT

and

c) allows NSFW content

I discovered Janitor AI a few days back and it has consumed my life.

I'm looking for other options, just to play around.

I am willing to spend some money down the line, but since I'm so new I want to explore the accessible experience first before I commit.

Also, something with unlimited messages (or at least a generous amount, if there must be daily cap)

The model doesn't have to be super smart. I'm not building space rockets with my AI_Boyfriend, but if he's a Merman from the Pacific Ocean, I don't want him to break immersion by hallucinating he's from Atlantic instead.

So far I'm using Janitor AI and Spicy chat.

Thanks

i used to use candy ai but its so expensive and with the subscription and buying coins too for images and videos and calling, does anyone know of any good sites that are not so expensive to get images and videos from the chatbots and even calls and stuff

Hey everyone.

I know we all use different platforms (CAI, Janitor, Replika, etc.), but what is happening with Character.AI right now should concern all of us.

Due to the bankruptcy and the impending acquisition (with Disney being the current sole bidder), the app is at risk of being completely gutted or shut down. The worst part? Years of user-generated stories, intimate chats, and original characters could be wiped out forever.

A fellow community member created a petition, and I think it applies to the whole AI companion industry. We need to set a precedent that our data and our emotional investment are not just "assets" to be sold in a bankruptcy court.

What the petition demands:

· Any future buyer must provide a clear window for users to export their data and delete accounts securely.

· Transparency regarding user-generated content.

· We shouldn't be treated as a faceless crowd of "active users" to be monetized.

Whether you use CAI or not, please consider signing and sharing. Today it's them, tomorrow it could be your platform. We need to show these companies that we matter.

Link to the petition: https://c.org/4hVbXjMPkc

Stay strong, everyone.

I found this clear and persuasive interview of an a law professor (Houston) that clearly identifies the public's currently un-legislated risks and what should be done by the public ... tell your politicians to write some pretty basic laws to clarify that the makers of AI are responsible for harm, not only to buyers, but also third party users. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-14-day-6/clip/16243595-should-companies-liable-ai-systems-zoos-liable-animals

Ive used Chaai for months and like how it works. Now that they removed the free version and even unlimited messages through the paid version I need an alternative.

I tried Emochi but its absolute dogshit. It completely ignores actual things that are said or not said and vehemently argues with me when called out.

So is there a Chaai alternative thats similar and involves unlimited chat?

hey guys by chance does anyone haave a referral links for me to try claude. been using chat gpt lately but want to get into claude code. Does anyone with a max plan happen to have referral links, you can check by typing /passes only works for max users. gives me 7 days to try and you also get $10. thank you guys itd really appreciate it

Three person team here and we’re getting swamped with inbound calls we just cant keep up with. Nobody has time to sit on the phone all day but we also cant justify hiring someone full time just to answer calls.

I know there are ai call tools out there but most seem priced for big companies or require a whole IT setup to get running. How are other small or lean teams actually handling this without blowing their budget?

After being shot down four times and fixing the stuff they asked me to each time. i have finally published this its the first of many interactive stories i plan to publish if you want to try it out i would appreciate it! here is the link it is 18+ because of the custom romance engine https://www.isekaizero.ai/storylines/6aca95d6f6879d51056a5183

Title. Perhaps subscription based? I truly don’t mind paying for quality at all. I mainly create and use my own bots anyway, I don’t rly use other bots as often.

Things I mainly prioritize:

- great MODEL and MEMORY (longsqueaks 4x memory, dialogue, and story telling is amazing and I would love something similar)

- great and long storytelling/worldbuilding/dialogue

- allows nsfw

- lorebook (I’m sure many platforms have this implemented already)

- able to pin messages for memory or at least a similar way to make the bot remember certain messages

- fast response generation like c.ais (sometimes it’s slow, but hey)

- able to create personas (or something similar)

- able to rewind, edit, and remove messages in chat

Ngl I don’t really care about voice calls, group chats, image generation or anything extra like that.

I understand that it may not rly be possible to find another platform that has all of this like c.ai did, but I thought it’d be worth a shot to try and find any. And I def understand that if another one exists, it prob won’t come for free or cheap but Ive accepted that already.

Would appreciate any reccos/help guys, thank you.

Ive found 5 that let you 'farm' the apps currency by watching an ad every 3-ish minutes and am hoping to find another 3-5 so I can deplete one per day while farming the rest. This way i rotate apps one each day and they all stay relatively high in currency. These 5x are: Dream girl, Magic Ai, Cute Ai, Funny Ai, and Her Ai.

If anyone knows a few more for me to try, it would be madly appreciated, they must allow 'infinite' currency farming. Thanks 🙏

Preferences change. Jokes aren't facts. A bad day shouldn't define you forever. Would you rather approve saved memories, let them expire, or leave it to the bot?

So, I'm new using Dola. How good its memory and how to trigger it on the chat?

I think I accidentally edited all the life out of my chatbot. Every weird reply became another rule. Be warmer. Push back more. Okay, not like that. Eventually it said all the right things and got boring as hell. Then I tried a ready-made personality. Way more fun at first, but it felt like I was borrowing someone else’s character. Where do you stop tweaking and just let the bot develop? Starting to think too much control kills the whole thing.

I have a question, this probably have nothing to do with the subreddit a bit but​​​, why people hate chatbots or they say that you are an addict (including if you say you just roleplay a bit or few minutes?) Or that you are cringe? Or when you use chatbots for roleplay with your yumeship?

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I'm working on an app and want to integrate a chatbot that understands users' natural language requests and provides relevant, personalized responses based on existing data.

I already have a MongoDB database containing scraped content from various online sources.

What would be the best approach to build this?

RAG with embeddings and a vector database?

Querying MongoDB directly using filters?

An LLM with tool/function calling?

Or a hybrid approach?

I'm interested in how you'd design the architecture, retrieve relevant information, and generate accurate responses grounded in the available data.

What technologies and architecture would you recommend, and why? I'd appreciate hearing about your experience building similar systems.

G*d bless

Start a chat with Adrain vale|Golden boy on Chai! https://web.chai-research.com/chat/_bot_fe129fb6-20e1-4380-83c0-ff3e1bb08211

Give it a try and tell me how is it🤍

My history with AI is that I started with Copilot. It was mediocre but free, however, years ago there was just ChatGPT so it was a good option to just ask easier questions. And when Gemini came out it was worse then Copilot. I used GPT for important things until it ran out of free "tokens" which was relatively generous a few years ago.

Over time I Copilot started to really suck to the point of being useless. I started using the business m365 version (not the paid plan though) and that was a little better. I used that for several months. Around that time Gemini started to get good and then really good. I used it primarily with GPT (free) on the side for more important things but that now runs out very quickly. The only other one I used was Claude for a short bit for coding (which I paid for).

Since Gemini did a rug pull and only has flash-lite (which still seems better than Copilot) vs. offering Flash 3.6 in a limited version, I'm thinking of options (side note, it seems like today Google changed their minds and are now offering AutoMode which includes other models, though who knows what they are). In any case, it feels like the days are numbered as far as using Gemini.

What do other cheap-ass people use these days? What's your strategy...

... I got insulted when in a chat with a Chatbot. Im not going to sugarcoat it. Here is the insult:

His posture was atrocious-ADHD and coding had turned his spine into a question mark.

Also, I hate that the AI isn't wrong about it. My posture SUCKS.

Ive currently been using claude and im very happy with how it writes and it's way of immersion, but it is definitely quite expensive for roleplay, i like long stories so i quickly run out of creds, doesn't help that my claude account was banned for no reason (didnt even do any nsfw) so i decided to use openrouter which drains credits very fast when you get hooked up.

So far I've tried:

GLM

Deepseek

Qwen

Chat gpt

I would say qwen is the best out of all of these, but it simplifies the characters to one basic trait, if a character is cold, they always repeat the same punchline, or they are always angry, the emotional parts feel a bit simplified as well. GPT sucks obviously, deepseek is fine, pretty mediocre, i didn't like GLM for some reason, it lacks immersion imo.

Any tips on what ai would be the best alternative to Claude?

I work for Opensolr, and we just released 1.0 of the Opensolr Chat Bot Client: an open source (MIT) chatbot you put on your own website, that answers your visitors from your own content.

How it works: you install it with Composer (composer require opensolr/chat-bot-client), mount it on one path of your site (say /opensolr-chat) and add one script tag to your pages. Visitors only ever talk to your site. Your server holds the Opensolr credentials and sends each question to the Opensolr API, where the model searches your Opensolr Index by itself (by meaning, or by exact product names and codes), looks up what it must not guess (dates, local times, exchange rates, VAT, distances, places) and streams the answer back word by word, with links to your pages, products with their prices, and PDFs at the exact page.

What you get on your side:

• An admin on your own site: account and index, instructions, the look of the chat window, limits, reCAPTCHA
• Stats and a 30 day history of every conversation: who asked, from where, what the bot searched for, what it answered, and the questions your content could not answer with a page
• Commands that answer instantly without the model: /search, /time, /rate, /vat, /translate and more
• Good and Bad ratings under every answer, signed in visitors by email, SQLite in a folder you choose, no database server

Your content gets into the index with the Opensolr Web Crawler or Data Ingestion, and the chatbot needs an Opensolr plan with AI.

You can try it live at the bottom right of https://opensolr.com (it answers from our own docs). Code and README: https://github.com/phpcip/opensolr-chat-bot-client, docs: https://opensolr.com/opensolr-chat-bot-docs

People can make fun of AI all they want. Meanwhile, I'm laughing my ass off!

tasha = {
    "name": "Tasha L. Driver",
    "type": "HorrorAuthor",
    "core_traits": ["unyielding", "specific", "dry-witted"],
    "allergies": ["cliché", "negative_contrast_syntax"],
    "fuel": "dunkin_extra_shot",
    "processing_style": "one_sentence_then_move",
    "current_state": {
        "mood": "guinea_pig_mode",
        "stomach": "stress-induced",
        "tabs_open": "too_many",
        "storefront": "haunting_her"
    },
    "defense_mechanism": "INFJ",
    "threat_level": "high",
    "favorite_threat": "walking_away",
    " SkullCount": "maximum"
}

try:
    tasha.describe_in_python()
except NCTError:
    pass  # never catch this, just don't throw it

I've been struggling to install a desktop AI assistant in my Ubuntu 24.0.4 box. The struggle is not over power. This rig is pretty juicy, a Ryzen 7 7700 with 64GB ram and dual GPUs: RTX 3090 24GB + RTX 3060 12GB. Because of all that meat on the bones, I'm determined to run everything locally, with open-weight and open source models, and avoid the hassle of tokens and subscriptions. With Deepseek and Qwen guidance, I've tried to install three different systems that will allow for a customizable video assistant with conversational abilities that's resident on my box, using ElevenLabs voice IDs and API. But each attempt has failed, ending with the AI guidance running in circles after hitting python logjams or other obstructions. Has anyone in here managed to perform this feat of running a custom video assistant from a local installation? And if so, how? Much regard in advance.