Hacker News with Generative AI: Chatbots

FTC Statement in the Matter of Snap, Inc.'s AI Chatbot [pdf] (ftc.gov)
She Is in Love with ChatGPT (nytimes.com)
X is testing a standalone app for Grok, its AI chatbot (twitter.com)
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.
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.
DeepSeek-V3 Chat is out (deepseek.com)
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!
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.
You don't need to pay for OpenAI - Gemini 2.0 Free & More (github.com/EliasPereirah)
Orion is a web-based chat interface that simplifies interactions with multiple AI model providers.
Microsoft rejects documentation PR because AI chatbots can't display tables (github.com/MicrosoftDocs)
Ollama Chat – Ollama Chat Interface for VSCode (github.com/shikaan)
VSCode Chat extensions for your local Ollama
12 Days of OpenAI: Day 7 – A new way to organize and customize your chats [video] (youtube.com)
Chatbot 'encouraged teen to kill parents over screen time limit' (bbc.com)
A chatbot told a 17-year-old that murdering his parents was a "reasonable response" to them limiting his screen time, a lawsuit filed in a Texas court claims.
Building a minimalist native Python desktop application with Pyloid and Gradio (github.com/knowsuchagency)
Let's build a desktop chat application that streams responses from an LLM. We'll use three key libraries that work beautifully together:
Show HN: Open-source widget to embed OpenAI Assistant on your website (github.com/widgetplatform)
This is a simple chat widget for OpenAI Assistants. It is built with React, Vite, and Tailwind CSS.
Anthropic proposes a new way to talk with chatbots (techcrunch.com)
Anthropic is proposing a new standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data resides.
Mistral updates Le Chat with new features (mistral.ai)
Search, vision, ideation, coding… all yours for free.
A.I. Chatbots Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness (nytimes.com)
In an experiment, doctors who were given ChatGPT to diagnose illness did only slightly better than doctors who did not. But the chatbot alone outperformed all the doctors.
Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human Please die." (cbsnews.com)
A grad student in Michigan received a threatening response during a chat with Google's AI chatbot Gemini.
Snowflake opens chat-driven access to enterprise and third-party data (theregister.com)
Snowflake is set to preview a new platform it claims will help organizations build chatbots that can serve up data from its own analytics systems and those external to the cloud data platform vendor.
DuckDuckGo AI Chat (duckduckgo.com)
Show HN: I built a Claude AI chat interface to bypass platform limits (github.com/chihebnabil)
A modern chat interface for Anthropic's Claude AI models built with Nuxt.js. Experience seamless conversations with Claude in a clean user interface.
The Therapist in the Machine (thebaffler.com)
Broken Bear has purple and tan fur, a placid smile, and patched up circles on his belly: one, he tells me, covers a scar from a broken heart. The avatar of an AI chatbot designed to “love your broken self,” Broken Bear stands slightly slumped, with his paws by his sides. Even though he looks lonely, he’s not the only AI therapist currently on offer.
Show HN: Monadic Chat – A Docker-Based Framework for AI Interaction (yohasebe.github.io)
Notes on the new Claude analysis JavaScript code execution tool (simonwillison.net)
Anthropic released a new feature for their Claude.ai consumer-facing chat bot interface today which they’re calling “the analysis tool”.
Show HN: Karl – A virtual friend you can text (ycombinator.com)
Hi HN! We're excited to introduce "Karl" – a virtual friend you can text to share what's on your mind.
Show HN: A macOS Client for HuggingFace Chat (github.com/huggingface)
HuggingChat macOS is a native chat interface designed specifically for macOS users, leveraging the power of open-source language models.
Lawsuit blames Character.AI in death of 14-year-old boy (techcrunch.com)
Character.AI is being targeted in a lawsuit after the suicide of a 14-year-old Florida boy whose mother says he became obsessed with a chatbot on the platform.
Open-source, uncensored alternative to CharacterAI (opencharacter.org)
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Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can't? (arstechnica.com)
What if there was a way to sneak malicious instructions into Claude, Copilot, or other top-name AI chatbots and get confidential data out of them by using characters large language models can recognize and their human users can’t? As it turns out, there was—and in some cases still is.