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So I’ve been lurking here for a while and I know we all have that same frustration. You spend hours crafting the perfect character on some platform, building up their backstory, their personality, their quirks, and then what? The platform changes their policies, or starts charging more, or your character gets neutered by some new filter update. Or worse, the service just disappears one day with all your work. This is why I built ChatRAG. It’s basically a boilerplate that lets you create your own chatbot with your own knowledge base, personality, backstory, everything. The key difference is you buy it once and it’s yours forever. No monthly fees bleeding you dry. No company deciding your vampire character is suddenly too edgy. Your data stays with you. What makes this different is you control literally everything. Don’t like how your character responds? Change the system prompt. Want them to know specific lore about your fantasy world? Upload it to the knowledge base. Want them to be more sarcastic or less formal? You can tweak it all. It’s like having the backend access that these big platforms will never give you. I’m actually working on adding real-time voice right now, so you’ll be able to actually talk to your characters soon. Imagine having full conversations with your creations, with voices you can customize. And if something doesn’t sound right, you just go in and adjust it yourself. Look, I know there are tons of chatbot solutions out there, but most of them either lock you into subscriptions or they’re so technical you need a CS degree to use them. ChatRAG sits right in the middle. It’s technical enough that you have real control, but user-friendly enough that you don’t need to be a programmer. The best part? When Character AI or any other platform inevitably changes their terms or increases prices, your chatbot just keeps working. Because it’s yours. Running on your setup. With your data. If you’re tired of renting your creativity from tech companies, this might be worth checking out. Happy to answer any questions about how it works or what you can do with it. – Carlos submitted by /u/carlosmarcialt |