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Since Character ai is basically unusable now and the devs openly said it’s aimed at kids, what alternatives are you all using? I’m only looking for free options, not paying for anything. I mostly do NSFW stuff lately and I’ve already tested pretty much every AI site I could find.

I tried Janitor AI, the narration is actually solid but the model itself is garbage, it forgets bot preferences and drags replies way too long, plus the creator UI is terrible. CrushOn was another one I tested, but replies are slow, repetitive, and just low quality overall. Carter AI has a decent model and even free voice, but the 3000 character limit for bot creation completely kills it, you just can’t build anything good with that restriction. Spellbound was nice when I tried the paid model, but the free ones get repetitive fast and easily fall into loops unless you constantly guide it. I also tried Mistral, it’s basically like ChatGPT but uncensored, however once you hit the 128k context limit it just dies and you have to restart everything from zero.

The only actually decent one I found so far is Perchance. It has a free image generator and unlimited chat, the bot actually sticks to what you write in the UI, which is rare. The only annoying part is that it sometimes talks for you and you have to edit messages, but you can create multiple characters for group chats and the lore system works pretty well.

So yeah, what are you using these days?

Heavy Claude user. Looking for something to listen in on my phone calls that I’m on and take notes. Suggestions?

i would honestly like to see a chatbot like C.AI with internet integration or something that uses the web yo search for stuff when needed or asked to do so to “refresh its memory”

I don’t want an AI girlfriend, neither am I interested in role-playing. I want to bring up topics and ask questions using explicit language, I would like as well for the chatbot to collaborate in creating some exotic stories. Is there such a chatbot?

Seeing as character ai is shit now, and janitor’s JLLM has been funny, and ive got no money for proxy, i’m thinking the near future may call for a bot replacement. Does anyone know of a chatbot service with some specific things?

– Free to use (without limitations on chat/time ect)

-preferably without filter

-unlimited personas

-an extensive bredth for bot personality (not limited to like 500 characters or the like)

These were all things char.ai and j.ai had once upon a time, so :/

Thank you for helping me out 😭

Is there a hack or prompt configuration to activate any NSFW mode in Cici?

I’ve been using ai chatbots to help me with studying by giving it my textbook pages and lecture slides and then having it teach it back to me. For the past year or 2, I’ve had a Perplexity Education Pro license that I’ve been using without issues and have been able to give it dozens of files without limiting me. But now, I’ve noticed that it’s been limiting my file uploads a lot sooner and makes it borderline impossible to use it the way I usually do. Are there any alternatives chatbots that offer a high file upload limit at reasonable-ish price? I’m willing to pay $30 a month at the very most. What do you guys think would be my best option?

The AI doesn’t need to be the most accurate model with the craziest reasoning skills, but it needs to be able to accurately analyze documents and teach them back to me.

I’ve seen a lot of people mention that “long-term memory” is one of the most important features in AI roleplay or chatbot experiences, but I feel like it can mean very different things depending on the person.

So I’m curious from a user perspective – what does “good” long-term memory actually look like for you?

Some things I’m wondering about:

• Do you expect the AI to remember everything, or just the important parts?
• What counts as “important” (relationships, personality, past events, preferences, etc.)?
• After how many turns should it still remember things? 50? 100? Unlimited?
• Is it better for memory to be selective and consistent, or detailed but sometimes messy?
• What kind of memory mistakes break immersion the most for you?

Also, if you’ve ever used a bot that felt like it had genuinely good memory, what did it do differently?

I’m trying to understand this more from actual user experience rather than just a technical definition.

been going down a rabbit hole with lorebooks lately (mostly from the SillyTavern side) and a thought hit me. the core mechanic is basically dynamic context injection based on keyword triggers, which is. kind of what you’d want for brand consistency across a content pipeline? like instead of cramming your brand voice guide, product details, and audience personas into every single, prompt, you structure them as lorebook entries and let the model pull what’s relevant per piece. the obvious gap is that tools like NovelAI are built entirely around fiction and have zero native marketing workflows. no scheduling, no CRM hooks, nothing. so you’d basically be hacking something together manually or trying to replicate the pattern in LangChain or a custom RAG setup. not impossible but heaps more work than just using Copy.ai or Jasper with a decent brand voice setup. has anyone here actually tried building something like this for real content workflows, or does the, token bloat and setup complexity make it not worth it compared to just using purpose-built tools?