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I’ve tried quite a few AI companion apps recently, including LustCrush AI, Replika, and Character AI, and I feel like most platforms still focus too heavily on visuals, quick roleplay, or NSFW features.

But honestly, the moments that actually feel real usually come from long-term consistency.

Things like:

remembering conversations from days ago

bringing up small personal details naturally

reacting differently depending on your mood

initiating conversations instead of waiting for prompts

developing personality over time

I think the hardest part of building a believable AI companion isn’t realism anymore. It’s emotional continuity.

If you could design the perfect AI companion experience, what would it actually do differently?

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

Do u own silver tell us how much I wanna know how much silver the avage person has I just started so I have one Troy ownze

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.

I recently got into AI writing and started building a longer adult story with multiple characters and side plots. Started simple but it’s basically turning into a whole storyline at this point.

I’ve tried a couple chatbots already and they work fine at first, but after a while they start forgetting details, characters, or events from earlier in the story.

Is there any AI chatbot that actually handles longer roleplay or story memory well? Curious what people are using for this kind of project. (no promo pls)

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