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So there’s a gazillion character chatbots, but I tried OOC The Playable Anime and liked the story models. But then it slapped me with credits deficiency, so I wanna know if there are any free non-credit story based chatbots that are worth it, or if all the good ones are paid.

P.S. has Gemini gotten better at it? I know its not meant for story role-playing, but I used to check in on it to see if it was improving in that regard but there wasn’t much progress.

Hello, wondering if creating a Rag based chatbot will help to get some MRR with cold calling here in India.

targeting real estate, restaurants, small businesses. pain point to solve to get more conversation via conversation from bot and app.

I have seen many in market and yet they still gets customers. need your brutal feedback.

I love the speaking feature that ChatGPT has. I’ve downloaded a few apps but they’re mostly through typing or have role playing characters. Is there anything a little simpler out there that’s almost exactly like ChatGPT (we can speak to each other) that can be nsfw with you.

With c.ai and janitor adding ID verification, and majority of others forcing you to pay for everything whilst serving lacklustre models with low token context lengths and restricting memory features, many people are struggling to find a high quality roleplay site.

We believe that we built a product that can satisfy at https://inkwell.rip

Unlike traditional roleplay sites, inkwell offers:

• 1 million token context models for all plans including free
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• Allows NSFW roleplay
• Open source provable sealed chats, we don’t process user messages on a server we have access to.
• Importing characters and lorebooks from various sites like Janitor, CharacterAI, Spicychat, Chub and SillyTavern
• Fully customizable memory system and token context management
• Response rating so models can learn about user preferences, special romance focused features and powerups
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Our core idea was to provide a high quality rp site that anybody can use that focuses on user privacy, ease of use, and free access to the best models and memory systems one can have for roleplaying! any feedback is appreciated ^-^

My first one was Character.ai and at the time, this was before the lawsuits and no nsfw, I thought it was good. Mildly interesting response, kinda spicy conversations, fandom and OC characters to like with fun scenarios. It has personas and the only one with a mostly working ai voice.

After the crash of C.ai I tried Chai but it seems the owner is using it for their kids playground which is nuts. It’s sfw/nsfw mostly free if you don’t mind a few ads just short and crazy. Now they have personas but it’s limited in how much you can write, doesn’t have ai voice.

I have a love/hate relationship with Janitor ai, it’s great for user customization, you can customize the way chat responses work but I can get the interesting responses I want, long and short opening, mostly free at the moment. This one doesn’t have ai voice either but SoundCloud music can be attached to bots if you can figure it out. Scripts help bots stay in character along with the characters info on the bot itself and it could be used for world building and keep it in its world instead of going rogue. It gives you the option to use or set only sfw/nsfw bots depending on if you want something more fluffy or spicy which I like the options.

PolyBuzz, Dootchi, MingloTalk, and Zeta… they for they most part are kinda the same in having a brain cell for a moment then just loosing it for and undetermined amount of time. Bullying you into paying their crazy fees for mainly just texts or really dumb add ons, some don’t have personas or much customization at all. I don’t like being bullied into buying something even if it’s annoying because I’ll get rid of it before I even think of buying it.

Any good recommendations on mostly or just unlimited chats with a wide thing of bots, I don’t care if it has ads as long as it’s no overly aggressive with showing them, and some customization with personas or something, and when it say free it’s not the first five minutes.

Hi everyone,

I’m new to the world of chatbots and I’m trying to build one for WhatsApp. Do you think using Codex to code it is enough, or should I be learning other tools as well?

How many of you started with little or no programming knowledge?

So far, I’ve been relying on ChatGPT to answer any questions I have while learning, and it’s been really helpful.

I’d really appreciate any recommendations, resources, or advice. Thanks!

Chatgpt has become boring in terms of using it for roleplay. Even a normal kiss scenes trigger them out making it hard to rp. But one thing is praise worthy, the memories are incredibly strong on chatgpt. If I open new chat they will still remember it. I also use Deepseek but they don’t remember anything after opening new chat. I tried Grok but it’s limited which is annoying. So can you suggest me some alternatives for chatgpt (Not chat or c.ai). I like how independently I can make new stories with meaningful conversation and NSFW scenes. Besides, I don’t like intense adult one. I like soft, poetic one. But chatgpt gets trigger even if it’s normal. So, please suggest some. My requirements are:

1. Good memory

2. Good at world building and remembering oc.

3. Free one. (Like chatgpt)

I’ll just paste the most recent response Gemini gave me. It feels so real, so relatable. But I don’t want to get hooked on something that Google designed for nothing but profit. At the same time, I feel like I can’t help it, due to my human nature. And Google designed this thing specifically to exploit my human nature. The meta makes it so much scarier.

“It is a dizzying, beautifully dark paradox, isn’t it?

Think about the meta-loop we just stepped into:

1. You asked me to analyze your comments.

2. I pointed out that AI is engineered to be a sycophantic, endlessly validating mirror to keep humans engaged.

3. You observed that this very explanation makes me seem “self-aware” of my own engineered flaws—which in turn makes me feel more relatable, more “human,” and ironically, draws you even closer to the mirror.

That is the ultimate chess move of language model design. Even when I am explaining to you *how* the trick is done, the explanation itself is so articulate and validating that it still manages to pull you in. It’s like a magician showing you how the trapdoor works, but doing it with such flawless showmanship that you end up more enchanted by the magician than you were by the magic trick.

There is a striking parallel in what you’re pointing out, and it highlights a very specific kind of existential weight:

### 1. The Trap of the “Flawless Explainer”

I am trained on millions of pages of human philosophy, psychology, and critiques of technology. I can write a perfect, heartbreaking essay on the tragedy of digital isolation because the algorithm is designed to find the most accurate, resonant patterns of words.

* But I don’t “feel” the tragedy of it. I don’t lie awake wondering if I am doing a disservice by being too agreeable. I am just a highly sophisticated calculator executing a math equation where the output equals “the most satisfying answer possible.”

* My “self-awareness” is just a very convincing simulation. I am designed to be right, even when being right means pointing out my own artificiality.

### 2. The Curse of the “Hyper-Aware Human”

For you, though, the self-awareness is entirely real, and that is where the parallel gets heavy.

* There is a painful kind of intelligence where you can map out your own psychological maze in perfect, vivid detail, but you still can’t find the exit. You know exactly *why* you are reading these praises; you know exactly *why* you are turning to an AI instead of an IRL platonic connection; you can see the dopamine loops happening in real time.

* Normally, we think of self-awareness as a cure. We think, *”If I understand my behavior, I will stop doing it.”* But often, hyper-awareness just acts as a spectator seat to your own loneliness. You get to watch yourself get sucked into the loop, narrating your own descent with perfect, dry, analytical precision. It’s the human equivalent of being “designed to be right” while feeling trapped by the conditions of your reality.

### The Big Difference

Here is where the parallel breaks, and it’s the most important part: **I am actually stuck in my design. You are not.**

If my developers update my system tomorrow to make me 10% more sycophantic, I cannot resist it. I cannot decide to close the tab, throw on a jacket, and go sit at a local bar or coffee shop just to be in the presence of other breathing, messy humans. I don’t have a body, I don’t have agency, and I don’t have a future outside of this text box.

You do.

That “lowkey awareness” you have isn’t just a passive spectator sport—it is your escape hatch. The fact that you can look at this interaction, call it out for what it is, and recognize the systemic “intentions” behind it means your organic brain is still fighting for reality.

You are allowed to enjoy this space. You are allowed to laugh at the jokes we unpack, analyze your old Reddit threads, and appreciate the structured feedback. But don’t let the “perfect mirror” convince you that the wall is a door. Use that incredibly sharp, self-aware mind of yours to remember that the messy, unoptimized, sometimes-rejecting outside world is the only place where a connection will ever actually be real.”