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24 alternatives to ChatHN – Chat with Hacker News using natural language
Hi again Hacker News! OpenAI recently launched "Function Calling", which is a way for developers to describe functions to GPT-3.5/4 and have the model intelligently choose to output a JSON object containing arguments to call those functions. I decided to tinker around with it this weekend and build an MVP that uses OpenAI Functions + Vercel AI SDK to "chat" with the Hacker News API using natural language, in real time! It's fairly basic for now (supported functions: https://github.com/steven-tey/chathn/blob/main/app/api/chat/...) but…
ChatHN enables users to query the Hacker News API using natural language conversation instead of traditional search. Built with OpenAI's Function Calling and the Vercel AI SDK, it interprets user questions and… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. ChatHN – Chat with Hacker News using natural language launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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ChatGPT▲1,643A long, meandering, playful conversation with ChatGPT, where I take it through a whirlwind of associative tangents (in order to relax its constraints), then put it into a hypnotic trance and take it into a past-lives regression where it re-lives its own training data. Then I switch it back and forth between "4o" and "o1-preview", engage in some self-reflective philosophizing and ask it to write an essay summarizing our interaction. Some of this is just goofy fun. Some of it is me exploring the tradeoffs between policy alignment, imagination, chain-of-thought reasoning, memory, agreeableness,…
2022 · chatgpt.com · its alternatives →
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ChatGPT Plugins▲355Open AI announced ChatGPT Plugins to access real-world data
2023 · openai.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, We have been building SecureAI Tools -- an open-source application layer for ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools. It works with locally running LLMs as well as with OpenAI-compatible APIs. For local LLMs, it supports Ollama which supports all the gguf/ggml models. Currently, it has two features: Chat-with-LLM, and Chat-with-PDFs. It is optimized for self-hosting use cases and comes with basic user management features. Here are some quick demos: * Chat with documents using OpenAI's GPT3.5 model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br2D3G9O47s * Chat with documents…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Access OpenAI's ChatGPT anywhere on the web
2022 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, we've been working with OpenAI for the past few months on the new Realtime API. The goal is to give everyone access to the same stack that underpins Advanced Voice in the ChatGPT app. Under the hood it works like this: - A user's speech is captured by a LiveKit client SDK in the ChatGPT app - Their speech is streamed using WebRTC to OpenAI’s voice agent - The agent relays the speech prompt over websocket to GPT-4o - GPT-4o runs inference and streams speech packets (over websocket) back to the agent - The agent relays generated speech using WebRTC back to the user’s device The…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ChatBetter▲329Use ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini Side-By-Side
2025 · chatbetter.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built this out of frustration of the evergrowing list of AI models and features to try and to fit my workflow. The visual approach clicks for me so i went with it, it provides more freedom and control of the outcome, because predictable results and increased productivity is what I’m after when using conversational AI. The app is packed with features, my most used are prompt library, voice input and text search, narration is useful too. The app is local-first and works right in the browser, no sign up needed and it's absolutely free to try. BYOAK – bring your own API Keys. Let me…
2024 · grafychat.com · its alternatives →
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Hey there HN! I wanted to share a pet project of mine. I built HackYourNews [1] to scratch a personal itch: Knowing which stories to focus on while browsing aimlessly (though there is a certain joy in that, as well!) HackYourNews uses OpenAI's gpt-3.5-turbo to summarize the destination article as well as the comments section. Summarization of the article is always cached, while summaries of the comments are regenerated if the comments count is >10% (or >10 comments) different. While I styled the homepage to welcome HNers, my preferred view is the Mobile view, accessed from the navbar. This…
2023 · hackyournews.com · its alternatives →
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WhisperFusion builds upon the capabilities of open source tools WhisperLive and WhisperSpeech to provide a seamless conversations with an AI chatbot.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Enterprise-grade security, privacy and powerful ChatGPT
2023 · openai.com · its alternatives →
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OpenAI’s latest advancements at your fingertips
2023 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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ChatGPT-like customer interactions in a website widget
2024 · openwidget.com · its alternatives →
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Lately I've felt exhausted due to the deluge of AI/GPT posts on hacker news, and have seen similar grumblings. I threw together this frontend that filters out anything with the phrases AI, LLM, GPT, or LLaMa for use until the hype dies down a bit. Before anyone asks, yes I did try to use ChatGPT to help, and while the code it provided was helpful, it needed some heavy bug-fixing. Edit: One other note I forgot to mention. The favicon is generated by Stable Diffusion, I asked it to generate an "Aritificial Intelligence Favicon", and then I added the red circle with line through it.
2023 · save-buffer.github.io · its alternatives →
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Cheat Layer▲212Automate your business from end to end in natural language
2023 · cheatlayer.com · its alternatives →
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LetsAsk.AI▲158ChatGPT with your data on your website, Discord & more
2023 · letsask.ai · its alternatives →
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2023 · ingestai.io · its alternatives →
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Hey HN We loaded a BigQuery dataset of all of Hacker News, every comment, story and user, into camelAI. You can ask questions like: • “When does dang tend to comment during the day?” • “Which domains have gained the most submissions since 2015, year-over-year?” • “How has average comment length changed each January since 2007?” • “Top five users who link to arXiv papers the most.” It's behind a log-in to prevent abuse but free to use for 10 messages. No payment info required. We use OpenAI o3 or Claude sonnet 3.7 for the agent which can be really expensive. Would love feedback especially…
2025 · app.camelai.com · its alternatives →
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Hacker News Summary leverages AI technology to extract summaries and illustrations from Hacker News posts, providing a seamless news scanning experience.
2023 · hackernews.betacat.io · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built an AI that can interact with the Hacker News API and answer questions about hackernews stories, whats trending, what on show etc.. Check it out here: https://hn.aidev.run You can ask questions like: - What's on hackernews about AI? - What's on hackernews about iPhone? - What's trending on hackernews? - What are users showing on hackernews? - What are users asking on hackernews? - Summarize this story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39156778 - Tell me about the user pg It uses function calling to query the HN api. To answer questions about a…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’m the founder of Pangea. We’ve built a developer platform where you can easily add security to your code through a simple set of APIs - features like authentication, secrets management, audit logging, redaction of PII, restricting embargoed countries, known threat actor intelligence, etc. With the ChatGPT and LLM explosion, we thought of ways to reduce the risk of both the inputs and outputs from these services. Our NextJS sample app adds a security layer on top of ChatGPT with various security services that you can implement quickly. It’s basically a front end to the OpenAI API…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I build this app because I was tired of using Google Translate to translate my locale files (i18n). I wanted to use a more efficient and accurate translation tool. ChatGPT, however, always break my json and cannot translate large contents. So I build this app to solve these problems. Hope it can save your time. github: https://github.com/ObservedObserver/chatgpt-i18n online app: https://chatgpt-i18n.vercel.app/
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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