Blog

Free is preferred

ChatGPT Plus consumer subscriber here. This may be the wrong place to ask, but does anybody have a better-functioning alternative to ChatGPT, preferably with human customer support?

The constant lies ChatGPT tells about its capability and functioning are creating work for me rather than shortcutting it. Exs: — I spent hours working on a complicated comparison chart with internal weighting logic that I wanted to add to later. ChatGPT assured me it could retain this as a “Canvas” that I could return to at any time. When I tried to return to it, it could no longer access it, and informed me that in fact I was likely working on an account where the UI did not have access to Canvas, and that my work was just lost. — I had it trying to run down facts on the web, only to find out that the facts it had supposedly verified were fabricated. Despite saying that it had browsed the web, it then claimed that it hadn’t actually browsed the web, and had made the facts up because “web tool” was not enabled on my model of ChatGPT. Wheh I asked how to enable the web tool, it claimed that there was no way to do that. — In another instance, I asked it about how to use its own web interface and it pointed me to menus and options that didn’t exist.

Going to customer support is useless, because (surprise!) ChatGPT support is just another AI. I’m not looking to get something for free — I’m completely willing to pay for a tool that works, and preferably one where I can actually reach a human for assistance.

So my question was is there any ai chatbot like thing that you can chat with with live feedback like you tell the ai to wave or smile and it complies

I’ve been trying to figure out what it was called by literally any means necessary. it wasn’t on all of the app stores (to my knowledge), it had a white background for the character catalog screen, and the chats had the pictures as the background and would update as the roleplay carried on. there wasn’t any subscription service, definitely capable of NSFW, and had it was a simple sounding name. possibly an actual name. not janitor, but I believe I looked up janitor AI alternatives. and it was hyper realistic characters only

I’m doing a survey on LLM call patterns in chatbot/agent architectures and would love your inputs:

1. How many LLM calls (e.g. OpenAI chat/completion requests) does your bot make for a single user query Just a ballpark e.g. 1, 2+, 3.. No need for exact stats or traffic data.
2. If your count is 1: What trick or toolkit (chains, function‑calling, embeddings + structured prompts, etc.) lets you handle intent + response in one go? Is it possible to achieve it? How?
3. Any other architectures you’ve found that reliably handle multi‑step or branching logic with fewer calls? What do you do to optimize number of calls (other than caching)?

P.S.: No proprietary info needed. This is purely related to design-pattern. I’ll compile all responses into a short, anonymized summary and share it back here in a few days.

So far spicychat has been my nsfw go to but I kinda want something that can do long story driven rps with sex sprinkled in

I’m stuck on Janitor.ai, but some say it’s outdated already and I want to explore different options. I’ve made a mistake with being exclusive with Character.ai for way longer than I should’ve been (I left for good only once long messages became a paid feature, screw them devs). I don’t want to waste time when there’s a better alternative to J.AI now and I’m missing out lol Soo… I’m open to all recommendations but here is what I care about the most.

Key factors:

*No filter/filter but only with a toggle

*It has to be usable without paying (I don’t really like limited energy systems, unless this limit is like sky-high)

*Able to make long, detailed replies. I want novel-esque quality.

Important factors:

*Has personas

*Has good variety of bots already (not just anime girls and CEOs…). “Oh, but you can make your own bots”-yeah, I do sometimes. Usually I’m too lazy. I like y’alls bots, people have cool ideas sometimes lol

*Writing style is adaptable-What do I mean by that? I love when bots see my responses and write back similarly while also mixing it up with creators writing style from initial message? I’d say Character.Ai is the best at this (or maybe it used to be when I used it). Each bot writing style felt unique (if not counting for “like a predator stalking it’s pray” occasional fixations). With J.AI it’s like… you see responses and you just knooow it’s from J.AI lmao, because it has one single writing style that can upgrade or simplify itself dependent on how good the bot is… But it’s still the same style. I wonder if there’s a site that is as good at it as Character.Ai at it’s prime.

*Good memory

I don’t care about:

*Lorebooks-it’s cool but I can live without it

*Voices-I will never use it

*Image generation-It’s not what I’m using it for

*Group chats-unless it’s actually functional, not just for “X and Y come to the bar” jokes like in Character.Ai. If it’s solved better and gives an user an opportunity to participate and have some semblance of control over what’s happening then it could be a perk.

*I’m using bots for RP only, idgf that the bots “behave like a REAL girlfriend!”