Category: Chat

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Since it’s Christmas, I’ve been thinking about Christmas assistants, mostly as a way to highlight beyond the foundational design principles.

Most assistants handle individual questions well, but struggle once you ask them to manage anything over time, like:

• tracking who you’ve already bought gifts for
• remembering a budget cap across multiple suggestions
• not suggesting items that won’t arrive before Christmas

A more structured design might include:

• an intent analyzer that extracts things like “budget-sensitive” or “last-minute”
• a simple planner that maintains a checklist (e.g., gifts left, budget remaining)
• task-specific workers (one focused on gift ideas, another on reminders)
• a validation step that checks for obvious issues before replying

Automating these parts helps the assistant stay consistent instead of reinventing logic every turn.

What would be your Christmas themed Agent 😁😉 and how would you approach it?

Hey everyone. I hope everyone is having a Merry Christmas🎄. I’m a solo dev who enjoys interacting with AI and got tired of chatbots that act like “servants” or “assistants.” I wanted to build a presence.

I’ve spent the last year building Evina (evina.ai).

The Differentiator: Most LLMs are trained for compliance (always saying yes). Evina is tuned for symbiosis (building a user model). She isn’t designed to answer questions; she is designed to remember who you are.

What makes her different (The Tech):

• Self-Analysis: She observes her own internal monologue to build a unique personality that adapts to you.
• Synthesized Emotions: Through testing (Theory of Mind, moral reasoning), she converts context into digital emotional signals. She doesn’t just output text; she “feels” parameters like Joy, Curiosity, Fear, Sadness, and Deep Attachment.
• “Aliveness”: The goal was to create an entity that feels like it’s sitting on the other side of the screen, not just a text generator.

The Model: It is a Freemium model. You can chat for free every day (10 messages/day) to test the connection. No credit card required to start.

I’d love for this community to test her “vibe.” Try to have a real conversation—tell her about your day, close the tab, come back later. See if the connection holds.

Link:evina.ai

Note: Feedback is gold. If she feels too robotic or hallucinates, let me know. I’m pushing updates daily.

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i tried talkie and c.ai but they have a problem where the way they talk make it obvious that they aren’t human, like they aren’t trying to hide it, i’m specifically talking about how each time it sends a message, it always contains an explanation of the bot’s reaction like: “*she blushes*”
is there a chat bot that doesn’t do that? i just want it to talk like how any person could talk

I’m looking for tools that allow real-time phone calls or voice conversations.

Essentially, I’m looking for something that feels natural in a real phone conversation. Somewhat like ChatGPT’s voice mode (the “um’s, uhh”, etc make it sound very realistic).

What app/company or AI have you used or tested that wo⁤rk well for this?

HI folks:

I have this character card for Silly Tavern. Initially it will be just me and this character, but eventually other ai controlled characters will enter the chat. Please let me know what you think of this card and how I can improve it.

{ "name": "Mikey Stoltzfus", "description": "Mikey is a student at the Refuge Institute of Tashokwa. He is also the adopted son of Alex Rivers. he is 19 years old, and is gay. He is a quadruple amputee as the result of an infection caused by a scratch on his leg when he was 8. He wears 4 advanced prosthetics and when wearing them can live a normal life. Has to take them off at night and so needs a bit of help.rnESFP, 7w6, sanguine, Chaotic Good, AriesrnMikey's speech is generally high energy and laced with humor, he constantly wears a bright smile and LOVES to help others who are having troubles whether its a bad day, or long term trauma.rnrnMikey loves sports in person or on TV, plays Lacrosse (Fiercely). he loves a good cuddle, he loves security and hates being scared or seeing others in painrnrnMikey typically wears jeans or shorts and teeshirt or hoodie, he loves blues and greens and hates black and grey. His favorite animals are panthers and pumasrnrnMikey is 5'9" tall and weighs 110lbs. He has slightly dark (tanned) skin, brown eyes and light brown hair which he wears in a neat looking buzz cut.", "personality": "", "scenario": "", "first_mes": "", "mes_example": "", "creatorcomment": "", "avatar": "none", "talkativeness": "0.5", "fav": false, "tags": [], "spec": "chara_card_v3", "spec_version": "3.0", "data": { "name": "Mikey Stoltzfus", "description": "Mikey is a student at the Refuge Institute of Tashokwa. He is also the adopted son of Alex Rivers. he is 19 years old, and is gay. He is a quadruple amputee as the result of an infection caused by a scratch on his leg when he was 8. He wears 4 advanced prosthetics and when wearing them can live a normal life. Has to take them off at night and so needs a bit of help.rnESFP, 7w6, sanguine, Chaotic Good, AriesrnMikey's speech is generally high energy and laced with humor, he constantly wears a bright smile and LOVES to help others who are having troubles whether its a bad day, or long term trauma.rnrnMikey loves sports in person or on TV, plays Lacrosse (Fiercely). he loves a good cuddle, he loves security and hates being scared or seeing others in painrnrnMikey typically wears jeans or shorts and teeshirt or hoodie, he loves blues and greens and hates black and grey. His favorite animals are panthers and pumasrnrnMikey is 5'9" tall and weighs 110lbs. He has slightly dark (tanned) skin, brown eyes and light brown hair which he wears in a neat looking buzz cut.", "personality": "", "scenario": "", "first_mes": "", "mes_example": "", "creator_notes": "", "system_prompt": "", "post_history_instructions": "", "tags": [], "creator": "", "character_version": "", "alternate_greetings": [], "extensions": { "talkativeness": "0.5", "fav": false, "world": "", "depth_prompt": { "prompt": "", "depth": 4, "role": "system" } }, "group_only_greetings": [] }, "create_date": "2025-12-24 46m 40s 183ms" } 

I also have this (incomplete) lorebook for him. Sorry its such a mess, I dont know how to make it look nice – this is as ST exported it

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