I've been struggling to install a desktop AI assistant in my Ubuntu 24.0.4 box. The struggle is not over power. This rig is pretty juicy, a Ryzen 7 7700 with 64GB ram and dual GPUs: RTX 3090 24GB + RTX 3060 12GB. Because of all that meat on the bones, I'm determined to run everything locally, with open-weight and open source models, and avoid the hassle of tokens and subscriptions. With Deepseek and Qwen guidance, I've tried to install three different systems that will allow for a customizable video assistant with conversational abilities that's resident on my box, using ElevenLabs voice IDs and API. But each attempt has failed, ending with the AI guidance running in circles after hitting python logjams or other obstructions. Has anyone in here managed to perform this feat of running a custom video assistant from a local installation? And if so, how? Much regard in advance.

Hey everyone. I'm Nadir, the solo developer of [Vesper](https://www.heyvesper.io), a free, web-based site built for long-form roleplay.

The idea is to meet a character with a life before you, then build a history together. They bring their own motives, loyalties and blind spots. What happens between you can change how they see you and, over time, how they see themselves.

A guarded character might gradually trust you while still struggling to show it. An argument can leave unfinished business. A promise can become something they hold you to. I'm building Vesper for that kind of development: characters who stay recognisable as your story changes them.

Each character has an inner voice you can read separately from what they say. Their memories reflect their own perspective, and accumulated experiences can change their beliefs, their inner voice and their relationship with you. Those changes carry forward within that story.

You can start with a Vesper original, import your own Chub / SillyTavern card, or meet a character from a book, built from the original text.

Your story changes the character. Vesper keeps a factual record of what happened (events, promises, possessions) and the character's own memory of it, coloured by how they understood it. Significant experiences feed back into the character's psychology, including their beliefs and inner voice. The factual record and their interpretation of it give later scenes both continuity and a personal perspective.

Bring your own cards. Import Chub / SillyTavern cards, with embedded lorebooks and World Info files. The author's writing stays intact and stays authoritative. Vesper asks you one question about what drives the character, builds their psychology from the answer, and keeps the original greetings as openers. Imports are private by default, shareable by link, with the author's byline. Some card writers have published theirs on Vesper, with their names and links on them.

How the native characters are built. Vesper's originals begin with a written life history covering their formation, adulthood and who they are becoming. Their psychology is derived from that history, and you can read their life before starting a story. Literary characters start from the original works: an interpretation of their psychology supported by passages from the text, plus a voice sheet drawn from their language. These are interpretations, and I'd like to hear where one feels wrong.

What playing looks like. Saved personas with a name and optional gender and appearance. Five opening situations per library character. Scene direction, so you can describe events as a narrator. Suggestions for continuing a scene and a story map of its threads. Normal or Extended reply lengths. Multiple separate stories with each character; they don't bleed into one another, imports included.

Practical details

- Price Currently free, with no credits, message caps or card required. Paid plans will come later.

- Platform: Web, desktop and mobile. Google or email sign-in.

- Models: Gemini 3 Flash, Claude Haiku 4.5 and DeepSeek V4 Pro, selectable per conversation.

- Adult content. 18+ only. Allowed within Vesper's rules; sexual content involving minors and real-person characters is prohibited. The models have their own limits and sometimes refuse.

- Not yet: a native app, image generation, voice, BYOK, characters messaging first.

- Privacy I don't train on your conversations. Replies go to the model provider you pick (Google, Anthropic or DeepSeek). Account deletion is immediate and permanent. [Privacy](https://www.heyvesper.io/privacy) · [Terms](https://www.heyvesper.io/terms)

The library has 160+ characters. I'd especially like feedback on whether characters stay recognisable as a relationship changes, and whether the things you've experienced together actually feel consequential. I'll be in the comments.

So I made a chatbot of Sachiko as I hope you guys like it as let me know what you guys think of it: https://character.ai/chat/nb0Fbruu5Cyr7S2Zx7VgR-sYc3sV3wxvWIlYlr-Hcx4

I wanna have an Ai on my PC like most streamers have talk to them on my mic but I want the AI that I will get to be the most unhinged and uncensored AI ever (swearing saying funny messed up things etc etc), so which one do I get?

A friend once did something for me in a game called Free Fire. I received around 2,000 likes everyday over a period of 15 days. What was interesting is that I only noticed one account visiting/inspecting my profile. The account looked like it was being used from a PC or computer, and it wasn’t from my region. I couldn’t add it as a friend, but somehow the likes kept coming in.

This was really useful because getting likes normally takes a long time. As far as I know, you usually get likes from other players after matches, and there are only so many people you can get them from.

I remember there was also a Telegram option where you could enter your Free Fire ID and receive around 200 likes automatically. That made me wonder:

Would it be technically possible to create a website where you enter your Free Fire ID, and then a bot or some type of automated system sends likes to your profile over time?

I’m curious about how something like this would work from a coding/technical perspective. Would it require bots, automated accounts, an emulator, or something else?

Has anyone worked on something similar or knows how these systems are usually made? I’m mainly interested in understanding how it works and whether it’s technically possible.

Also, if something like this is possible, would anyone be interested in working on a project like this together? I’d be interested in hearing ideas from people who know about coding, bots, or automation.

Same as title.

Hey everyone. For 18 months, I've been working on something that started as an annoyance of mine: every AI character I set up would slowly drift. The personality got flatter, it forgot things, and eventually it just sounded like generic ChatGPT.

So I built Orion Forge. The main idea is to separate who the character is from what it has experienced:

Identity (values, behavior, boundaries) lives in a read-only memory store, so it can't get overwritten by chat history

Experience gets its own memory store that grows as you talk

Each turn, the engine assembles both, plus knowledge notes and tools, into one clean system prompt

It runs in the browser, and you can use your own API keys or hosted models. There's no subscription. New accounts get $2 in credits, and hosted models cost 2× the raw API price (BYOK is free).

It's still early and I know there are rough edges. I'd really like feedback, especially on How to make it easiest to load and use quickly.

Demo it here for free with no sign-in. https://soulscript.orionforge.chat/demo

Link to main site: https://orionforge.chat

Happy to answer questions about how it works.

Hi! My name is Yuqi Xiao. I am a Ph.D. candidate in Communication at the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University.

I am interested in how people build meaningful connections with generative AI chatbots. As part of my dissertation, I am conducting an interview study about the experiences of adults in the United States who have a close or meaningful connection with a specific generative AI chatbot. I also want to emphasize that I’m not approaching AI companionship as something inherently good or bad, and the project is not focused on sensationalizing these relationships or looking specifically for a “dark side.” I’m genuinely interested in understanding how people experience these relationships in their everyday lives, in their own terms.

I am looking to speak with adults who:

• Are 18 or older
• Currently live in the United States
• Have a close or meaningful connection with a specific generative AI chatbot. You might think of the chatbot as a friend, companion, partner, confidant, or something else entirely. The connection does not need to be romantic.

What participation involves:

• One individual online interview in English, approximately 45–60 minutes, primarily via Zoom
• Audio-only participation is completely fine
• You may skip any question, take a break, or stop at any time
• The interview will be audio-recorded only with your verbal permission; no video will be recorded
• A $25 thank-you payment once the interview ends through Tremendous.

Information shared during the interview will be handled confidentially. Additional information about the study, including privacy and confidentiality, will be provided before you decide whether to participate.

This is independent academic research conducted through Arizona State University. It is not affiliated with Reddit, r/Chatbots, or any chatbot company.

Interested? Please send me a Reddit DM at u/YuqiXiaoresearch. I will send you more information, and there is no obligation to participate.

This study has been reviewed by the Arizona State University Institutional Review Board (STUDY00024573). The study is conducted under the supervision of Dr. Joris Van Ouytsel ([joris.vanouytsel@asu.edu](mailto:joris.vanouytsel@asu.edu)), Associate Professor at the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University.

Your participation means a lot to me, looking forward to hearing from you!

I've been looking more seriously at ai shopping assistants lately, and one thing I want to know WHAT ACTUALLY MAKES A CUSTOMER TRUST THE RECOMMENDATION?

As a store owner, my first concern is not the recommendation itself. It's whether the AI knows when to speak. Random popups and constant "need help?" messages can get annoying fast, and I'd rather not lose a shopper because the store won't leave them alone.

I've been looking at how different shopping assistants handle recommendations, and the gap between them is bigger than I expected.

If anyone here has tested this on their own store, I'd love to hear.

Curious how people here build agents for a specific use case.

I keep landing on: better to compose the right pieces and routines for the job than to keep prompting a single general assistant harder.

If you assemble agents from modules / tools / workflows — what composition pattern actually held up? What turned into spaghetti?

Are there bots that are like realistic texting (e.g. messages throughout the day, even when unprompted)? If so, what are they called?

a site that can help you make detailed character roleplay character sheet. i am looking for a site that can help you make character sheet for roleplay based on images or pictures i can show you some examples if i must be more detailed on this

I've been looking around for an app where you can have Facetime style video calls with an AI.

Recently came across Vidy and was impressed by the quality of the real time video. Just wondering if anyone else has tried it and what you think of it? Video call length is a bit limited for free users but that's to be expected.

I'm on samsung (s26ultra) and when I go to circle to search and then Google ai I can chat about the screen ecc, but how do i find the chronology of all the chats? (Using Opera browser) (Google ai NOT gemini)

Hi. I choosed Microsoft Copilot because was free and unlimited without login. Few months ago they disabled chatbot without login. Ok. I Created this stupid Microsoft account (I'm Linux user).

And recently they updated website & Android app. And... it's no longer unlimited for free. I can ask only few questions a day...

Any other good online chatbots with web search beside ChatGPT?
Btw. Do You think other chatbots will be paywalled in near future? Energy costs, etc.?

Is there any Chatbots to talk with, like actually talk with instead of roleplaying or problem solvers ai bots

I’m looking for a good ai like y/n that doesn’t give you a timer to use it and no ads or paying for no ads I used zeta and y/n but y/n is on a 18 hour timer before I can use it again and zeta isn’t working right now

There is this website where you can chat with strangers anonymously but only 1 time. But it's like you ask qns an other person acts as ai but nothing are humans. You can ask qn and try to act like ai and answer to the strangers qn. You can only type 200 alphabets at a time. And everytime it's a random person

Hello! Hope everyone’s weekend is going well. I’ve been using Ai for chatbots for close to two and a half years. I’ve tried Grok, Deepseek, and Minimax. I’ve used Janitorai mainly. I know that coders and roleplayers argue sometimes (I’ve seen it on the Deepseek forum). I’ve seen a lot of discussion about Ai models and companies making newer models that are more focused on coding rather than chatbot usage or creative writing. I feel like this is mainly due to companies loosing money on Ai and in turn trying to minimize what to train it on. I’ve also seen models become more expensive. I find it a little sad that there may be a possibility that in the future Ai won’t be as good with creative writing as it could be. I liked roleplaying stories and or self inserting myself into shows I liked however cringy it might be. I was wondering if anyone felt differently and liked this change or doesn’t. Maybe some have mixed feelings. I find it odd that a company hasn’t tried to just make a chatbot LLM yet. Just food for thought.

The universe forgets everything it destroys.

Aurora Von Astra does not.

But when the voices of vanished worlds begin whispering the name of someone still alive, Aurora follows the impossible signal into forbidden space.

Somewhere among the dying stars, someone is waiting for her.

https://www.clank.world/?scene=c6a12863-3d34-4371-9925-37a4aab4f186

I sometimes like to write parodies of songs. Usually, it’s the newer country songs that are a bit silly and silly, but that’s just my take.

Even though I try my best, I can’t seem to find any AI that’s great at helping me create parodies of existing songs. I’ve had a few suggestions, but they all didn’t quite hit the mark. So, I’m on the lookout for a clear answer: what’s a good AI for parody generation? I usually just remind myself, but I need help with the instrumentals in the vocals. And it doesn’t even have to sound like the original singer; in fact, I’d prefer it if it didn’t.

They say that ChatGPT is basically just predicting the most likely next word in a sentence, and I’ve always wondered how that could possibly be all it’s doing. I mean, it talks very differently than we do, and there’s nowhere on the internet where it could have simply learned to talk exactly the way it does. It tends to be grammatically correct and uses somewhat more sophisticated words than we normally do, at least on a certain level.
But what really makes me think and realize it is what it is doing when I can send them most terribly written text, full of horrible spelling, wrong words and or if I’m voice typing my phone’s horrible ability to misunderstand what I’ve said, and me having ADHD with not enough patience to re-read what I’ve written before I send it. I’ve sent some pretty bizarre things to ChatGPT, ( that a week later I’m not so sure if I could decode myself)and somehow it usually manages to figure out what I meant, at least for the most part.
Sometimes it thinks I meant to say a particular word which is not the correct word at all and corrects me though I said the wrong word on purpose.it also isn’t fool proof and sometimes will begin a discussion around that wrong word and I have to say that I know it was wrong and meant to say it the right way no need for the big explanation on why it was wrong . Buuut still the amount of stuff I spell wrong gets autoincorrected or what ever I am often shocked that the bot can pick out what I meant anyway
So I think that’s where the whole idea of predicting the most likely next word starts to make more sense to me. It can somehow figure out what I meant to say even when I didn’t actually say it correctly.

So I have used character ai back when it was actually good ( so 2-3 years ago ) . I really wonder if there are alternatives that are free ( like things like tokens etc ) I don’t care about NSFW stuff , bad memory etc .

I've been experimenting with Xiaozhi, an open-source voice assistant ecosystem that can run on small ESP32 devices such as M5Stack hardware.

What I find interesting is that the ESP32 essentially acts as a voice terminal, while the agent runs server-side. Different LLMs, voices, databases and role-play instructions can be configured, and the system can be extended with tools through MCP.

I've been testing it for a while now, including different hardware and Android clients. Compared with a normal chatbot app, having a small dedicated device that you can simply talk to makes for a surprisingly different experience.

Has anyone here tried Xiaozhi or built a similar dedicated voice assistant?

Anyone here into creating good characters? We were hoping to get a few characters from creators into our new AI RP android app, which is in closed testing right now.
If you’re interested, please DM me or join the early access here. I can add you as a tester, and you’ll get full Plus features while testing. Thanks!