Category: Chat

I’ve made hundreds and I talk to them for hours. Which apps do you use?

I wrote about Visa’s partnership with OpenAI and how it could bring ChatGPT closer to actual shopping and payment.

The idea is that a chatbot may not only help someone compare products. It could also help move a purchase toward checkout through Visa’s payment network.

That is where things get interesting, and a little uncomfortable.

Visa says the setup would include buyer controls like spending limits, required approvals, approved merchants, tokenized card details, and fraud checks. So the chatbot would not just have free access to a card. The user would set limits first.

A few things stood out to me:

• The chatbot’s role needs to be clearly defined.
• Final approval should stay with the buyer.
• Payment security matters just as much as the chatbot’s answer.
• Mistakes could get messy: wrong item, wrong seller, bad delivery date, return issues.
• Privacy is a big question because shopping data can reveal a lot about someone.
• OpenAI previously tested Instant Checkout, but AP reported it was retired in March 2026.

Personally, I could see a chatbot helping narrow down options. That part makes sense.

But before payment, I would want one last review: item, seller, total cost, shipping, return policy, and payment method. No automatic purchase without that final check.

I wrote the full article here: https://aigptjournal.com/explore-ai/ai-toolkit/intelligent-commerce/

Would you trust a chatbot to help with shopping if every purchase still required your approval?

I feel like in the free version as soon the gpt reaches it limits, in the replies after that it starts encouraging more about uploading screenshots/other media “upload screenshot for me to understand this part”,etc. I could be wrong but this is what I found in mult

Viloi AI is a platform that mainly focuses on humanizing texts and while it doesn’t have it’s own chatbot yet, there are recent models of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok AI available in it with a single very cheap subscription. Our most special feature is its Humanizer which I am very confident in, that it is indeed worth calling one of the best in my opinion. It has many modes and also can work on 4 different languages. Although it can not be the same opinion for everyone, I still ask you to try it out for free and if you like it, its up to you to buy any subscriptions.

Moreover, we had Turnitin Checks before, but now its under maintenance again and will soon be released again with better functionalities and efficiency.

Incase any of you try it and find any bugs, you can do us a favor and let us know in our Discord Server. You can find it through our website.

Thank you.

Do u guy’s know these ai alternatives b/c I’m so tired of seeing their daily primium buy message

any recommendations on team AI chats + long running work? ive been looking into https://duet.so but wanna also check out other apps. how are you using ai cohesively in your company?

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…