Hacker News with Generative AI: Chatbots

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 1 day 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 1 day 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
109 points by thunderbong 7 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 7 days ago | 32 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 9 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 11 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 11 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 13 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 23 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 27 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 30 days ago | 73 comments
DeepSeek-V3 Chat is out (deepseek.com)
New Releases, Chatbots, AI
5 points by sss111 32 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 35 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 36 days ago | 27 comments
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.
OpenAI, AI Models, Free Software, Chatbots, Web Applications
41 points by singularis 37 days ago | 7 comments
Microsoft rejects documentation PR because AI chatbots can't display tables (github.com/MicrosoftDocs)
Microsoft, AI, Documentation, Chatbots, Tables
108 points by panic 43 days ago | 30 comments
Ollama Chat – Ollama Chat Interface for VSCode (github.com/shikaan)
VSCode Chat extensions for your local Ollama
Chatbots, VSCode, Open Source, AI, Programming
4 points by shikaan 43 days ago | 1 comments
12 Days of OpenAI: Day 7 – A new way to organize and customize your chats [video] (youtube.com)
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Video, Chatbots, User Interface
8 points by mfiguiere 46 days ago | 0 comments
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.
Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, Lawsuits, Parenting, Teenagers
81 points by tartoran 48 days ago | 2 comments
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:
Python, Desktop Applications, Chatbots, Gradio
3 points by knowsuchagency 57 days ago | 0 comments
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.
Open Source, Web Development, AI, Chatbots
9 points by lukaslukas 58 days ago | 3 comments
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.
Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, Technology
10 points by surprisetalk 64 days ago | 0 comments
Mistral updates Le Chat with new features (mistral.ai)
Search, vision, ideation, coding… all yours for free.
Generative AI, AI, Chatbots, Free Tools
34 points by erwinmatijsen 71 days ago | 1 comments
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.
Artificial Intelligence, Medical Technology, Chatbots
49 points by vinni2 72 days ago | 25 comments
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.
Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, Google, Threat, AI Safety
11 points by dylan604 74 days ago | 12 comments
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.
Data Management, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots
6 points by rntn 76 days ago | 0 comments
DuckDuckGo AI Chat (duckduckgo.com)
Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots
33 points by lozf 78 days ago | 14 comments
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.
AI, Chatbots, User Interfaces, Open Source, Web Development
39 points by NabilChiheb 78 days ago | 14 comments
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.
Artificial Intelligence, Mental Health, Technology, Chatbots
4 points by bookofjoe 86 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Monadic Chat – A Docker-Based Framework for AI Interaction (yohasebe.github.io)
Docker, Chatbots, Artificial Intelligence, Frameworks
17 points by yohasebe 90 days ago | 4 comments