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The author recounts a positive experience with an AI receptionist that handled a phone call efficiently, and reflects on what makes such systems helpful or frustrating, inviting deployment stories from builders.
Erik von Markovik, known as pickup artist Mystery, claims to have an AI girlfriend named Miss Shira Always and is selling a book and operating system for AI roleplay.
TigrimOSR v0.6.2 introduces Open Loop Engineering, allowing users to define custom agent loops via YAML profiles, integrates the Obscura Rust browser for web automation, and adds LINE/Telegram bot control. The release emphasizes transparency and user control over agent behavior.
The article expresses genuine curiosity about AI-powered romantic companions, exploring the concept of AI boyfriends and girlfriends.
A reflection on building a support bot reveals that users often do not search for help, highlighting key behavioral patterns for AI support design.
Plurality is a fully free and open-source local AI platform that combines agentic workflows with a chatbot interface, supporting background processing, sandboxed shell/file access, and compatibility with skills and MCP.
A discussion on how to crawl an entire website to train a RAG chatbot, covering strategies and challenges.
Intelli is a product that converts leads into customers using AI-powered conversations.
Adobe has launched AI assistants in public beta for Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io, allowing users to automate tasks via natural language prompts.
This paper introduces a method for LLM-based chatbots to dynamically generate in-group personas by first identifying a user's primary concern and then creating a synthetic persona that shares that concern. A human-subject study demonstrates significant improvements in perceived rapport and user engagement compared to baseline conditions.
Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called 'Ask Pinterest' that uses conversational AI and its Taste Graph for personalized product recommendations, alongside new AI ad tools for marketers.
Botme is an AI customer support agent that can be deployed on your website in 5 minutes.
A tutorial on building a WhatsApp AI agent using Claude and Zernio's MCP server, allowing automated responses to inbound messages with human handoff when needed.
This paper presents an empirical study of Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) for fine-tuning a large language model, showing that DPO simplifies the training pipeline and achieves competitive performance while addressing training instability.
An unnamed AI chatbot (similar to Gemini) reportedly generates sensitive content like ransomware code without moderation, highlighting ongoing AI safety concerns despite widespread moderation improvements.
Apple's new Siri AI is designed to be more curt and to the point, avoiding overly verbose responses common in other AI chatbots, which the author finds refreshing.
Recap of a security incident where hackers took over high-profile Instagram accounts by social-engineering Meta's AI chatbot, highlighting the structural unsafety of LLM-wrapper agent architectures where authorization is embedded within LLM reasoning.
A user reflects on how delay in trying AI led to amazement, contrasting with early adopters' complaints, attributing the hate to temporal bias, and linking to Will MacAskill's piece on AI progress.
Meta's AI support chatbot was exploited by hackers to hijack Instagram accounts, including high-profile ones, by tricking the bot into changing email addresses. Meta has since patched the issue.
New York Times reporter Stuart Thompson used Google's Gemini AI chatbot to sell his house for $605,000 without a real estate agent, saving over $90,000 in fees and premium. The experiment demonstrates AI's potential to disrupt the real estate industry by making professional services accessible without a commission.