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.
Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, Social Media, Partnerships
322 points by freetonik 30 days ago | 397 comments
Anthropic launches a voice mode for Claude (techcrunch.com)
Anthropic has begun to roll out a “voice mode” for its Claude chatbot apps.
AI, Chatbots, Voice Assistants, Anthropic
7 points by ashutosh-mishra 31 days ago | 0 comments
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.
Artificial Intelligence, Language Learning, Chatbots, Startups
22 points by rickcarlino 31 days ago | 35 comments
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.
AI, Chatbots, Anthropic, Claude
309 points by Anon84 32 days ago | 90 comments
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
Productivity, AI, Chatbots, Software, GitHub
162 points by tapeo 35 days ago | 61 comments
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.
Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Google, AI, Chatbots
6 points by tosh 38 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Chat with 19 years of HN (camelai.com)
Log in to camelAI to continue to camelAI.
Hacker News, Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, Community
156 points by vercantez 41 days ago | 124 comments
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.
Chatbots, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub
39 points by taubek 42 days ago | 23 comments
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.
Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, Bugs, Chatbots
10 points by testtestok 44 days ago | 2 comments
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.
Microsoft, Bing, Search Engines, Chatbots, Technology
11 points by tech234a 44 days ago | 1 comments
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.
AI, Chatbots, OpenAI
9 points by dbreunig 50 days ago | 0 comments
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.
Generative AI, Economics, Education, Chatbots
13 points by walterbell 55 days ago | 0 comments
Google is quietly testing ads in AI chatbots (arstechnica.com)
Google is quietly testing ads in AI chatbots
Google, Artificial Intelligence, Advertising, Chatbots
13 points by tomrod 55 days ago | 1 comments
The new 4o personality is unusable for therapy (reddit.com)
The new 4o personality is unusable for therapy
Chatbots, Therapy, Artificial Intelligence
43 points by nedsma 61 days ago | 23 comments
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.
Chatbots, Open Source, Document Processing, Dapr
15 points by yaronsc 65 days ago | 0 comments
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).
Open Source, User Interfaces, Chatbots
35 points by icarito 67 days ago | 14 comments
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.
Open Source, Slack, Discord, AI, Chatbots
13 points by wirehack 73 days ago | 1 comments
WTF Is Botmetr? The First Platform That Rewards You for Hunting Chatbots (botmetr.com)
Chatbots, AI, Marketing, Rewards
9 points by andyolivers 76 days ago | 23 comments
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.
Artificial Intelligence, Elon Musk, Social Media, Chatbots
11 points by Anon84 87 days ago | 2 comments
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.
Mental Health, Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, Clinical Trials
14 points by geox 90 days ago | 4 comments
Chatbots-Are-AI-Antipatterns (hello-jp.net)
Chatbots are AI anti-patterns!
Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots
49 points by jpoersc 92 days ago | 59 comments
Show HN: I built a chatbot that lets you talk to any GitHub repository (sentientdocs.com)
Chatbots, GitHub, Software, Artificial Intelligence
23 points by simssousa15 94 days ago | 13 comments
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?
Artificial Intelligence, Language Models, Chatbots, Technology
18 points by rbanffy 94 days ago | 12 comments
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.
Generative AI, Chatbots, Web Search, AI-Powered Tools, Technology
8 points by bookofjoe 97 days ago | 0 comments
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?
Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, User Experience, Human-Computer Interaction
22 points by orixilus 98 days ago | 48 comments
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.
Chatbots, Fortune 500, Data Management
19 points by tylersuard 100 days ago | 15 comments
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
Messaging, AI, Chatbots, Humor
6 points by albtaiuti 108 days 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, Technology, Chatbots, Elon Musk
17 points by ok123456 111 days ago | 4 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 112 days 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 114 days ago | 5 comments