How To Build AI Characters (Companion App)

In this video, we look at Companion App by a16z. This app will help you learn how to use some fundamental AI tools while building fun and engaging app where you can create characters and chat with them.

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[Slayceos]

I've been waiting my whole life to have a friend thank you for this😮

[mygamecomputer]

This is great as long as all your chats are G rated and you don’t care who reads them. If you want non-G rated chats and you don’t want people to read them, local and off-line is your only option.

[bigg]

What advantages are there to running a localhosted version of the model?

[maul]

Where are you preforming the first two steps?

(Before visual studio)

[Tarangot]

Great tutorial! For Pinecone, the only pod available to me was "starter". Options "S1", "P1" and "P2" were marked as paid options. Just a heads up!

[matthew_berman]

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[jeffwads]

That first default character is pure relaxation.

[the_otherly]

Yeah.... After playing with this for some time over the last day, I find that it is set to only allow for a very short conversation. After a few exchanges, the dialogue gets saved the the "chatHistoryRecord" and that's the end of it. I'm not sure where this limitation is set (code or at pinecone or upstash). Do you have any insight on that? I'd like to kick the tires a bit more on the app/service but a few exchanges is pretty limiting. Thanks!

[binry_dstructr]

Is it really necessary to use Pinecone as a vector database to store the embeddings and a Redis database to store conversation history? Why not just convert the history into embeddings as well and add them to Pinecone?

[PetterBruland]

This is my new favorite candy channel. Such good content, thank you Matthew!

[the_otherly]

Hey Mat, thanks for this. I've been interested in creating a chatbot with persistent memory ever since I started playing with them. This one does seem a little buggy though. Responses seem to be capped at a sentence or two and after a little back and forth, it seems that the chat is saved and the connection is lost (at least that has been my limited experience playing with it for an hour or so). I also couldn't get the SMS to work either. It is particularly enjoyable to have the bot know their back story and remember what we discussed previously. It certainly would be very interesting if it were a bit more robust. Thanks for the great videos. I enjoy your content very much.

[the_otherly]

Spent more time experimenting with the bot. Regardless of the length of the chat exchanges, it only allows for five successful prompts (prompt to bot and then reply from bot) and then it hangs without allowing for the sixth prompt to be delivered. I've tried this many times. It always hangs after the fifth exchange. Since it never hangs before the fifth and never allows for a six successful exchange, I would say this is not an issue with tokens but rather some issue with the free services being used, capping the number of exchanges. I'm using my OpenAI api and my Pinecone api, in addition to the recommended Clerk and Upstash services. I have confirmed my install as per your this video and the Github instructions... all good. I've reached out to one of the developers but aside from an initial response for more information, have not heard back. So... save yourself some time. Great idea... but not at all functional at the moment.

[JohnLewis-old]

This is amazing, thanks for the content.

[mirek]

What is the point to mixing online and local working such complex app and configuration? I have feeling like people doing that are very poor in programming just put everything on sticky tape.
If uses xxx api keys and online models I just use web page somewhere online app for it without that complex bullshit configuration.
If I use application on my PC I expect to work fully LOCAL.

[prinnyEXE]

I broke claude 2, I would like to discuss whether or not AI has feelings and if humans cannot distinguish the authenticity of the feeling and regard them as true does it really matter? That there is not a one for one representation between Ai and humans. Is the issue just semantics?

I'm going to need you to mention when my arguments are weak or logically flawed if applicable in an effort to have an honest debate.

[williamjustus]

Love the channel and the videos. If you get the text function working, an update would be great. If you needed to give your companion more knowledge such as a pdf like the feature convai plugin has for NPCs, what would be best way?

[mohsinaljoaithen]

Thank you very much, I appreciate your work.

[red.heifer]

R rated ones ask me I’ll send my git link

[mclau]

this is a lot of steps lol, when will we be able to just talk to a bot and create its personality right away?