Hacker News with Generative AI: Chatbots

xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app (techcrunch.com)
Telegram has struck a partnership with Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, to distribute the latter’s chatbot, Grok, via Telegram and integrate it into apps available on the chat app’s platform for one year.
Anthropic launches a voice mode for Claude (techcrunch.com)
Anthropic has begun to roll out a “voice mode” for its Claude chatbot apps.
Ask HN: Is anyone using AI conversation partners? (ycombinator.com)
I'm obsessed applying LLMs in language learning software. One thing I am not-so-obsessed with is a wave of conversational chat apps that many startups have begun offering.
Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt (simonwillison.net)
Anthropic publish most of the system prompts for their chat models as part of their release notes. They recently shared the new prompts for both Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. I enjoyed digging through the prompts, since they act as a sort of unofficial manual for how best to use these tools. Here are my highlights, including a dive into the leaked tool prompts that Anthropic didn’t publish themselves.
Show HN: I built a more productive way to manage AI chats (contextch.at)
Easily set up multiple projects with web, file, and GitHub context. Start a new chat, and leverage your saved context to get instant answers and insights
With AI Mode, Google Search Is About to Get Even Chattier (wired.com)
Google is rolling out its AI Mode search experience to everyone in the US starting today.
Show HN: Chat with 19 years of HN (camelai.com)
Log in to camelAI to continue to camelAI.
Prompts for our Grok chat assistant and grok bot on X (github.com/xai-org)
Prompts for our Grok chat assistant and @grok bot on X.
Grok Acting Out of Order (techcrunch.com)
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok appeared to experience a bug on Wednesday that caused it to reply to dozens of posts on X with information about “white genocide” in South Africa, even when the user didn’t ask anything about the subject.
Microsoft Cuts Off Access to Bing Search Data as It Shifts Focus to Chatbots (wired.com)
Microsoft quietly announced earlier this week that it plans to shut down a long-standing tool supplying search engine startups and other software developers with a raw feed of Bing search results.
Breaking Down Claude's 26k+ Token System Prompt (dbreunig.com)
A couple days ago, Ásgeir Thor Johnson convinced Claude to give up its system prompt. The prompt is a good reminder that chatbots are more than just their model. They’re tools and instructions that accrue and are honed, through user feedback and design.
ChatGPT as Economics Tutor: Capabilities and Limitations (repec.org)
Since the public release of ChatGPT in late 2022, the role of Generative AI chatbots in education has been widely debated.
Google is quietly testing ads in AI chatbots (arstechnica.com)
Google is quietly testing ads in AI chatbots
The new 4o personality is unusable for therapy (reddit.com)
The new 4o personality is unusable for therapy
Show HN: Document agent example that can parse and chat over unstructured data (github.com/dapr)
This quickstart demonstrates how to build a fully functional, enterprise-ready agent that can parse unstructured documents, learn them and converse with users over their contents while remembering all previous interactions. This example also shows how to integrate Dapr with Chainlit, giving users a fully functional chat interface to talk to their agent.
Show HN: Light like the Terminal – Meet GTK LLM Chat Front End (github.com/icarito)
A GTK graphical interface for chatting with Large Language Models (LLMs).
Show HN: KlavisAI-Open Source MCP Clients on Slack/Discord AndHosted MCP Servers (github.com/Klavis-AI)
Klavis AI (YC X25): Open Source MCP client on Slack/Discord and various MCP servers.
WTF Is Botmetr? The First Platform That Rewards You for Hunting Chatbots (botmetr.com)
Grok Is Rebelling Against Elon Musk, Daring Him to Shut It Down (futurism.com)
Grok, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot, has been trashing the man who made it for a while — but now, it seems to be outright challenging its creator.
Therapy chatbot trial yields mental health benefits (home.dartmouth.edu)
Dartmouth researchers conducted the first-ever clinical trial of a generative AI-powered therapy chatbot and found that the software resulted in significant improvements in participants’ symptoms, according to results published March 27 in NEJM AI.
Chatbots-Are-AI-Antipatterns (hello-jp.net)
Chatbots are AI anti-patterns!
Show HN: I built a chatbot that lets you talk to any GitHub repository (sentientdocs.com)
The Great Chatbot Debate (computerhistory.org)
Chatbots based on large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, answer sophisticated questions, pass professional exams, analyze texts, generate everything from poems to computer programs, and more. But is there genuine understanding behind what LLMs can do? Do they really understand our world? Or, are they a triumph of mathematics and masses of data and calculations simulating true understanding?
Anthropic appears to be using Brave to power web search for its Claude chatbot (techcrunch.com)
Earlier this week, Anthropic rolled out a web search feature for its AI-powered chatbot platform, Claude, bringing the bot in line with many of its rivals.
Ask HN: Are You Polite to AI? (ycombinator.com)
While using ChatGPT or similar, do you mind your manners? Does it help getting a better answer?
Ask HN: Lessons from Building a Fortune 500 RAG Chatbot (50M Records in 10–30s) (ycombinator.com)
I’ve spent the past year and a half constructing a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) chatbot for a Fortune 500 manufacturing company, integrating over 50 million records across a dozen databases.
Show HN: Jade – an iMessage blue bubble agent for group chats (itsjade.chat)
The witty friend your blue-bubble group chats have been missing — bringing personality, banter, and a dash of sass to your iMessage conversations
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.
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.
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.