Hacker News with Generative AI: Chatbots

Doge Has Deployed Its GSAi Custom Chatbot for 1,500 Federal Workers (wired.com)
Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has deployed a proprietary chatbot called GSAi to 1,500 federal workers at the General Services Administration, WIRED has confirmed.

Artificial Intelligence, Government, Technology, Chatbots, Elon Musk

11 points by ok123456 7 hours ago | 2 comments

Doge Has Deployed Its GSAi Custom Chatbot for 1,500 Federal Workers (wired.com)
Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has deployed a proprietary chatbot called GSAi to 1,500 federal workers at the General Services Administration, WIRED has confirmed.

Artificial Intelligence, Government, Chatbots

6 points by adrian_mrd 20 hours ago | 0 comments

We were promised "Star Trek," so why did we settle for these lousy chatbots? (bigthink.com)
At some point in the first week of January, I came down with a self-diagnosed case of AI fatigue.

Artificial Intelligence, Science Fiction, Chatbots

5 points by Brajeshwar 3 days ago | 5 comments

Ask HN: Best LLM Stack for Q&A over Internal PDFs? (ycombinator.com)
I'm looking to build an LLM-based chatbot that can answer questions using a set of internal PDF documents.

Q&A, Chatbots, Internal Documents

11 points by samrohn 9 days ago | 5 comments

Show HN: OpenAstra – Chat based open-source alternative to Postman (github.com/srikanth235)
A chat-based open source development platform for API discovery and testing.

Open Source, API Development, Testing, Chatbots

24 points by srikanth235 17 days ago | 7 comments

South Korea bans new DeepSeek AI downloads (bbc.com)
South Korea has banned new downloads of China's DeepSeek artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, according to the country's personal data protection watchdog.

South Korea, AI, Chatbots, Regulations

36 points by Erikun 20 days ago | 15 comments

In a showdown of psychotherapists vs. ChatGPT, the latter wins, new study finds (fortune.com)
Couples therapy can be helpful—but so can an AI chatbot, researchers found.

Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, Chatbots, Research

29 points by dr_dshiv 22 days ago | 17 comments

ChatGPT's Political Views Are Shifting Right, a New Analysis Finds (gizmodo.com)
When asked about its political perspective, OpenAI’s ChatGPT says it’s designed to be neutral and doesn’t lean one way or the other. A number of studies in recent years have challenged that claim, finding that when asked politically charged questions, the chatbot tends to respond with left-leaning viewpoints.

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Politics, Chatbots

14 points by jrepinc 25 days ago | 1 comments

Doge Is Working on a Custom Chatbot Called GSAi (wired.com)
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is pushing to rapidly develop “GSAi,” a custom generative AI chatbot for the US General Services Administration, according to two people familiar with the project.

Artificial Intelligence, Government, Chatbots

11 points by cyanbane 30 days ago | 4 comments

The all new le Chat: Your AI assistant for life and work (mistral.ai)
Today, we unveil the latest le Chat, a comprehensive AI assistant for your life and work.

AI, Generative AI, Chatbots, Productivity

31 points by meetpateltech 30 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Bindle – Self-Organizing Folders and Chat with Your Documents (bindle.work)
Bindle is the easiest way to organize and AI chat with everything in your workspace, no matter what you do.

Productivity Tools, AI, Collaboration, Organization, Chatbots

10 points by camsf 32 days ago | 3 comments

DeepSeek Fails Every Safety Test Researchers Throw at It (pcmag.com)
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek is making headlines with its low-cost and high-performance chatbot, but it may have an AI safety problem.

Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, AI Safety, China

7 points by madars 35 days ago | 4 comments

Ask HN: Please Review My Startup Chatty AI – Operator for Your Website (ycombinator.com)
Chatty AI is a custom operator for your website. Unlike generic ChatGPT operator, our widget is directly embedded into your product and knows your knowledge base, docs, and how to use your specific product.

Startups, Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, Website Development, Customer Support

26 points by banddk 36 days ago | 2 comments

ChatGPT Gov: OpenAI launches chatbot for US Government agencies (usatoday.com)
OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence research company behind the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, has launched a new venture specifically for use by the U.S. government, it announced Tuesday.

Artificial Intelligence, Government, OpenAI, Chatbots

8 points by gmays 36 days ago | 1 comments

We tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square (theguardian.com)
The launch of a new chatbot by Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek triggered a plunge in US tech stocks as it appeared to perform as well as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other AI models, but using fewer resources.

Artificial Intelligence, China, Chatbots, Generative AI, Technology

8 points by namanyayg 39 days ago | 3 comments

Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek censors itself in realtime, users report (theguardian.com)
Users experimenting with DeepSeek have seen the Chinese AI chatbot reply and then censor itself in real time, providing an arresting insight into its control of information and opinion.

AI, Censorship, China, Chatbots

5 points by c420 39 days ago | 1 comments

DeepSeek overtakes ChatGPT to top app charts (bbc.com)
Shares in major US technology firms have fallen steeply in value after the sudden emergence of a low-cost chatbot built by a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm.

Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, Technology, Business

5 points by k1m 41 days ago | 1 comments

Budget AI Model DeepSeek Overtakes ChatGPT on App Store (macrumors.com)
A new China-based AI chatbot challenger called DeepSeek has reached the number one position on Apple's App Store free charts in multiple countries, including the US, raising questions about Silicon Valley's perceived leadership in artificial intelligence development.

Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, Mobile Apps, Competition

7 points by mcraiha 41 days ago | 1 comments

Chatbox: Cross-platform desktop client for ChatGPT, Claude and other LLMs (github.com/Bin-Huang)
Your Ultimate AI Copilot on the Desktop. Chatbox is a desktop client for ChatGPT, Claude and other LLMs, available on Windows, Mac, Linux

Chatbots, Software, Cross-Platform, AI

110 points by thunderbong 46 days ago | 23 comments

Show HN: Chat with multiple LLMs: o1-high-effort, Sonnet 3.5, GPT-4o, and more (polychat.co)

AI, Chatbots, Generative AI, Software

62 points by cr4zy 46 days ago | 33 comments

Observations from improving a RAG chatbot from useless to amazing (boliv.substack.com)
Everyone is building chatbots, riding the current AI wave that will undoubtedly crash if not crashing already. However, because we are in an industry where hype trumps literally everything else, if you’re not building with AI, you’re just being left behind and risk being forgotten or at least surpassed by direct competitors who do leverage it.

Chatbots, Artificial Intelligence, Software Development, Business

5 points by brunooliv 48 days ago | 0 comments

ELIZA Reanimated (arxiv.org)
ELIZA, created by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT in the early 1960s, is usually considered the world's first chatbot.

Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots

59 points by soheilpro 50 days ago | 18 comments

FTC Statement in the Matter of Snap, Inc.'s AI Chatbot [pdf] (ftc.gov)

FTC, Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, Privacy, Regulation

4 points by impish9208 51 days ago | 0 comments

She Is in Love with ChatGPT (nytimes.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Language Models, Chatbots, Love, Human-Computer Interaction

16 points by jbegley 52 days ago | 8 comments

X is testing a standalone app for Grok, its AI chatbot (twitter.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, Mobile Apps, Social Media

8 points by jmsflknr 62 days ago | 2 comments

Kotaemon: An open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents (github.com/Cinnamon)
An open-source clean & customizable RAG UI for chatting with your documents. Built with both end users and developers in mind.

Open Source, Chatbots, Document Search

191 points by miles 66 days ago | 14 comments

Show HN: Chorus, a Mac app that lets you chat with a bunch of AIs at once (melty.sh)
Chat with a bunch of AIs at once.

Mac Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, Multitasking

139 points by Charlieholtz 69 days ago | 73 comments

DeepSeek-V3 Chat is out (deepseek.com)

New Releases, Chatbots, AI

5 points by sss111 71 days ago | 0 comments

Build Your Own AI-Powered Document Chatbot in Minutes with Simple RAG (ycombinator.com)
Build Your Own AI-Powered Document Chatbot in Minutes with Simple RAG!

AI, Chatbots, Document Processing

4 points by myrigole 74 days ago | 5 comments

Narrative Jailbreaking for Fun and Profit (interconnected.org)
A game I like to play with any AI chatbot is to persuade it to break its narrative frame.

Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, Experimentation

105 points by tobr 75 days ago | 27 comments