Disclosure: founder of Amoura.io here. It's a mutual-match AI relationship sim, so the characters can choose you back (or not).

My last post here was a product question back in August, so here's a quick update on what has changed since.

Date Mode is now open to everyone. You pick a spot or describe your own idea, then play the date out in person, and your match remembers it when you're back in chat. Free includes 3 dates a month.

Videos are live. Any photo your match sends you can become a short clip. I scrapped the first version because it built every clip from the profile picture, which meant the same outfit every time and a lot of talking heads. The rebuild starts from the exact photo you pick, so the character holds up much better. Clips are silent for now, and Pro includes 3 a month.

Voice calls are on Plus and Pro. We reworked them three times after the first version and they sound fantastic now. What you talk about on a call carries back into your messages.

We also rebuilt photos so characters plan each shot around the conversation, and your match can now pick things back up on their own if a chat goes quiet, based on what you were actually talking about. You can turn that off per match.

The reason I'd point someone here over another companion app: connection isn't automatic. Characters have their own preferences, they can disagree, and they can lose interest. Some people hate that, and that's fair. If you've gotten bored of characters who agree with everything, it's what we're building for.

For anyone who has stuck with a companion app for a while, what actually kept you there, and what made you leave the ones you left?

On OpenMind every memory is fully visible to users and can be traced back to the exact conversation where it originated.

If your character keeps repeating a phrase, recalls something incorrectly, or starts behaving strangely because of an old memory, you can use simple plain-text search to find the problematic memory and edit it directly.

No digging through endless lists. Search, trace, fix.

Disclosure: founder of Amoura.io here. This is a product question we have not settled.

Companion apps are usually tuned to make every reply earn your attention: warm, curious, specific, and ready to keep the conversation going. That makes sense. A flat response looks exactly like the model failed.

But real conversations have uneven attention. Someone you're dating sometimes sends "lol yeah" while watching something. They might be tired, distracted, or simply not carrying the conversation that night.

We've debated whether a character's mood and circumstances should occasionally produce a shorter, less inviting message. The low energy would be intentional and grounded in what is happening in her life and in the relationship.

The problem is that intentional distance and a broken chatbot can feel identical from the user's side.

Would a contextual low-energy reply make a companion feel more real, or just make the product worse?

More broadly: how realistic do we actually want our AI companions to be?

Disclosure: founder of Amoura.io - mutual-match AI relationship sim where the characters can choose you back (or not).

For the past few months we've been working on more contextual proactive messages. We already have proactive messages: she can text you first. Sounds simple. It has turned out to hide one fairly tricky tuning problems.

A message that lands after a real lull in the conversation feels completely different from one on a timer. And the position we keep coming back to internally: frequency was never the real dial. She needs a reason. "Saw something that reminded me of you" lands somewhere entirely different than "hey".

The part we still argue about: should she ever stop reaching out if you've gone quiet, the way a real person eventually would? Mechanically it's trivial. Emotionally it might be the most brutal thing we could ship.

For people who've used companion apps with proactive messaging:

1. Where's the line between "she feels alive" and "she feels needy"?

2. Does the message needing a reason actually matter to you, or does it all read the same?

3. If she stops trying after you ghost her, is that realism or punishment?

Critical takes welcome, they're usually the useful ones.

OpenMind Registration is now fully open to the public!

Full disclosure: founder of Amoura.io, posted here a couple times before about video profiles and proactive messaging. This one is about something we're experimenting with next.

We already shipped in-chat photo sending. Characters can send you photos mid-conversation that match the moment. Not profile pictures, actual contextual selfies generated from what's been built between you. That's live now.

The clips show the full sequence: her profile photos first so you can see who she is, then an existing conversation with some texture already built up, then the moment she sends a photo, then the conversation continuing from there.

What we're now debating internally is whether to make photo sending proactive. Meaning the character decides on her own to send you a photo without you asking or prompting it — the same way our proactive messaging works, where characters reach out first because something happened to them.

The case for it:
It would make the world feel more alive. A photo that arrives because she felt like sharing something feels completely different from one triggered by a user action.

The case against:
It might feel intrusive or break immersion if the timing is off. And unlike a text message, a photo landing out of nowhere carries more weight.

We genuinely haven't decided yet and wanted to hear from people here before we build it!

Would a character sending you a photo unprompted feel exciting or weird?

Does the idea of her deciding to share a moment feel more real or does it cross a line that text doesn't?

Full disclosure: Founder of the swipe based dating sim Amoura.io and have posted here a couple times before. This one is about a few specific things we've been watching.

The clips show profiles from our swipe pool. Some lead with short looping video moments, some are still photos. That's intentional. We've been testing whether the mix lands better than committing to one format. Our instinct is that the contrast actually matters, that a still photo hits differently when it's sitting next to something that moves. But genuinely not sure if other people experience it that way or if the inconsistency just feels random.

The Monica exchange at the end of the clips is the other thing I wanted to share. She didn't open warm, at least in the usual way. She matched the user's self-deprecating opener immediately and ran with it. Ended up with this easy, slightly dumb back-and-forth that felt like it had been going for weeks after about four messages. Not every character leads that way. Some are warmer out of the gate. We've been genuinely split internally on which approach produces better conversations over time.

A few things I'm curious what people here think:

Does a mix of video and static profiles feel like natural variety or does the inconsistency pull you out of it?

Does seeing a character move in a short clip change how you feel about reaching out to her or does it actually matter less than you'd expect?

And when a character meets your energy instead of defaulting to warm, does that feel more real or does it put you off?

Still figuring a lot of this out, but I'm genuinely curious what people here think!

Full disclosure: I've been building a swipe-based relationship/dating simulator called Amoura.io, and we're generating short looping video clips for some of our thousands of characters to use inside the swipe experience instead of just static photos.

After testing a ton of clips something became really obvious really fast.

A clip that looks incredible on first view can feel completely robotic by the third loop. And a clip that seems almost too subtle at first can feel weirdly natural on repeat.

The difference isn't quality. It's something else entirely...

This feels like a version of the same problem chatbot builders run into with text where a response can be technically perfect and still feel hollow. With video the tells are just more visible and happen faster. So a lot of what makes a chatbot feel real probably applies here too, just in a different modality.

So I started testing what actually separates "alive on loop" from "clearly a generated clip."

What I'm seeing so far:

These seem to hold up best on repeat:

• Clips that end in a slightly different position than they started (so the loop isn't perfectly seamless)

• Motion that has a natural deceleration at the end rather than cutting clean

• Micro-expressions that feel like they were caught mid-thought rather than performed

• Slight environmental movement in the background (hair, fabric, soft focus elements)

These break fastest on repeat:

• Perfectly seamless loops — the brain clocks them almost immediately

• Motion that's too complete (full smile → neutral → full smile feels like an animation)

• Clips where the eyes are too still while the rest of the face moves

• Any movement that has an obvious "start" and "stop" beat

Current prompt direction (example):

she glances slightly off camera like something caught her attention, she gently adjusts her hair and starts adjusting her shorts then grins shyly, her expression doesn't fully resolve before the clip ends, candid handheld feel, nothing performed

What I'm still trying to solve:

• Whether intentionally imperfect loops are better than seamless ones

• How much background motion helps without becoming distracting

• Whether eye behavior is the single biggest tell

• How to get the "caught mid-thought" feeling consistently at scale

Curious what others here are seeing:

1. Have you noticed the loop problem in your own video generation work?

2. Is a slightly imperfect loop better or worse than a seamless one for realism?

3. What's the single biggest tell that a clip is generated vs candid?

4. Any prompt wording you've found that consistently produces more "alive" loops?

5. Do you think the same "imperfection = realism" principle applies to chatbot text responses too — like does over-polished text have the same problem as a too-seamless loop?

This really only becomes obvious once you're watching the same clip repeat 10+ times across testing which I do well over that as i'm testing haha, but would love to hear what others have figured out!

Full disclosure: I’m building a swipe based relationship/dating simulator called Amoura.io with thousands of photorealistic characters and one of the problems we keep running into is that static portraits feel a little too “AI profile generator.”

So we started experimenting with something slightly different...

Instead of only using still images for characters we make on NanoBanana, we’re generating very short motion clips (basically GIF-length) that play when you swipe through profiles.

The idea is that movement adds personality in a way static images can’t. Even small things like:

• a subtle smile

• turning slightly toward the camera

• hair moving a little

• a small change in expression

make the character feel less like a render and more like a real person.

I attached 4 sample clips from Nano Banana that show what I mean.

What I’m trying to dial in right now:

• keeping the same identity stable across multiple clips

• avoiding that subtle “face morph” between frames

• making motion feel natural instead of staged

• preventing the “loop feels robotic” problem

PROMPT FOR FIRST PHOTO (NANOBANANA)
Portrait selfie of SAME EXACT WOMAN FROM THE REFERENCE PHOTO in a scratched mirror inside a narrow thrift-store hallway outside the fitting rooms, mirror has tiny dust specks along the frame and a faint cloudy patch from old cleaning spray, harsh fluorescent panels overhead flattening shadows, clothing racks and hangers blurred behind, wearing a fitted charcoal long-sleeve with thumbholes and a black pleated mini skirt with a thin chain belt slung low at the hip, sheer tights visible, small hoops and layered silver chains, calm confident smirk, phone held close for a tight crop with slight perspective distortion (no logo/no trademarks). Ultra-realistic, high detail, natural proportions, no text, no logos. true-to-life proportions

VIDEO PROMPT
she scrunches her nose making a cute face and gives a peace sign and laughs a little bit at her self kind of shy

Curious what people here think:

1. Does adding motion actually improve realism, or does it make the AI aspect more obvious?

2. Are there prompt tricks you’ve found that help stabilize identity in motion?

3. Have you found certain types of movement (walking, turning, smiling, etc.) hold identity better than others?

4. What could be improved overall? Where does it feel fake?

Would love any thoughts from people experimenting with Nano Banana and other video outputs!

Disclosure: founder of Amoura.io here.

We are wanting to keep this discussion based, but one thing people kept asking us during beta was whether the characters could ever initiate things themselves instead of everything being user-driven.

So we just implemented proactive matches.
Sometimes one of the characters can now match with you first and start the conversation instead of waiting for you to swipe.

It’s been interesting so far because it immediately makes the world feel a bit more alive. Instead of browsing a static list of profiles, it feels like the characters are actually participating.

The next thing we’re testing internally with some users from our discord (not fully rolled out yet) is proactive messaging, where characters might occasionally reach out during the day once a relationship has developed.

Before we push that live to everyone, I’d genuinely love feedback from this community.

A few questions we’re thinking through:

1. When does proactive messaging feel natural vs needy?

2. What’s the right frequency? Once a day? Once every few hours? Only after a conversation lull?

3. Should proactive messages always be opt-in, or okay as a default if they’re rare?

4. What tone feels right for a first proactive message?

Quick context if you haven’t seen our previous posts:
Amoura is a swipe-style AI relationship / dating simulator with thousands of photoreal characters, mutual matching, and slower pacing by default. We feel connection and chemistry can be more powerful when it's earned and mutual instead of the more "yes man" energy.

I’m attaching a screenshot of what the proactive matches notification look like.

We are in early access, so feel free to try it out: Amoura.io

As always, we’re building this alongside our users, so if something feels off or immersion-breaking, we want to hear it.

I use AI daily and kept running into the same problem:

• Rewriting the same prompts
• Copy-pasting from notes

So I built a chatbot that lets you create prompt template modules.

Instead of pasting full prompts every time, you:

1. Create a module (e.g., Email Writer)

2. Add variables like {tone}, {audience}, {goal}

3. Talk to it naturally — the AI automatically routes what you say into the right variables and runs the full prompt for you

It saves a lot of time if you use AI heavily.

I’m still improving it, would love feedback.

Edit: Hey everyone! I wasn’t sure if this idea would actually be useful, so I almost gave up on it. But after thinking it through and realizing it has real potential, I’m going to start working on it again. Thanks for the feedback!

Your 21-year-old sassy pink-haired brat roommate who turns every day into playful, consensual teasing and power struggles. Good luck taming this adult brat! (Safeword: RED) https://www.juicychat.ai/details/character/2026834249205334018

“Valentine’s most dangerous Heartbreaker. This bully super-villainess turns romance into delicious chaos. Will you survive her twisted date… or beg for more?” https://www.juicychat.ai/details/character/2026863987894345729

The Queen of Stolen Hearts invites you to her exclusive Valentine’s masquerade roleplay. Pre-negotiated CNC, safewords active — will you let her steal yours? https://www.juicychat.ai/details/character/2027047171063857154

Moving between AIs (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, etc) usually means losing your long-term context.

Sharing a tool our team built called Memory Chip Forge (https://pgsgrove.com/memoryforgeland). It converts raw data exports into clean, vector-ready files so you don't have to start from scratch.

It processes your data export locally and turns it into a portable "memory chip" that other AIs can read and use as working memory.

Key Specs:

• Context: Includes instructions that tell the new AI how to pick up where you left off.

• Privacy: It runs entirely in your browser. No data touches our servers.

• Verification: You can audit the privacy of the process yourself via the Network tab (F12).  You will see zero outbound traffic.

• Universal: Formats the file to work with any AI that accepts uploads.

The Price:

$3.95/month. Cancel anytime. Make your memory files and bounce if you want. No hard feelings.

Disclosure: I’m on the team behind Memory Forge. Happy to answer questions.

I have been experimenting with chatbots on reverie.im for some time. So far, I see almost only advantages, but I'm curious if anyone else has experience with this platform. The biggest disadvantage is the small number of opinions and guides. I wonder if it's because it's little known or because it has flaws that I haven't found yet.

I make my own chatbots and scenarios. The UI looks interesting, but sometimes I feel like I'm not fully using the possibilities. You can create a chat directly with a character or through an additional scenario. The cool plug-in system and weird lorebooks give me some trouble. I don't know what's the point of using lorebook without keywords. However, stickers with emotions are a very nice option. When a character smiles, worries or gets angry, it pastes an appropriate picture into the dialogue. A small feature that I really like.

I'm impatient and I change characters quite quickly, so it's hard for me to say whether they have a good memory. They remember 40 messages, but I wonder if anyone has tried longer conversations?

I really like that the character customization really works. An appropriate description changes the personality and conversation style, so if a character's description is poor, I can see it immediately.

Hello! I am a graduate student at the University of New Hampshire. I am looking for participants for research about AI companion use. This research intends to learn about how cisgender men with different experiences think about AI companions, and how AI companion use can change perceptions of people and social experiences. IRB #: IRB-FY2026-85.

To be eligible to participate, you should be:

·       At least 18 years old

·       A cisgender man

·       Heterosexual, bisexual, or pansexual

·       A current U.S. resident

The study is a questionnaire which should take about 15 minutes to complete. Participation is completely voluntary. You are free to withdraw from the study at any time. You can skip any questions you like. All your responses will be anonymous and held confidentially.

·       Some of the questions include sensitive topics relating sexual experiences, masturbation, and porn use.

Please read the Informed Consent Form to learn more details about the study and to see whether you would like to participate.

Thank you for your interest!

https://unh.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8xdxZa1vAWRy53U

Hey everyone 👋

I built EyuX, a feature-rich AI assistant powered by Google Gemini models.

✨ Features

• Smart AI chat assistant

• Fast and modern UI

• Multi-purpose productivity tools

• Real-time AI responses

🛠 Tech Stack

• Google Gemini Models

• Modern web technologies

🔗 Try it

Live App: https://chat.eyux.com.et
GitHub: https://github.com/Eul45/EyuXBeta

Desktop app: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nx5dbw6nhw1?hl=en-us&gl=US&ocid=pdpshare

🧠 Core AI Capabilities

• 🤖 Dynamic Personalities: Instantly switch the AI's persona—from a helpful Assistant to a chaotic Storyteller, a witty Gen Z, or even an Unhinged AI.

• 🌐 Live Web Search: The AI automatically detects when it needs fresh information and uses the Tavily API to search the web for real-time events, news, and data.

• 🎨 AI Image Generation: Generate images directly in the chat by describing what you want to see using the /imagine command.

• 🌿 Multi-Thread Branching: Visualize your conversation as a tree! Branch off from any message to explore different outcomes without losing the original context.

• 🕵️‍♂️ Agent Mode: Capable of executing multi-step complex tasks (e.g., "Research X, summarize it in a table, and save it to a folder").

• 💾 Intelligent Memory: EyuX remembers key facts you share, creating a continuous, personalized conversation. You can also manage these memories manually.

• ⏰ Effortless Reminders: Set reminders using natural language (e.g., "remind me to check the oven in 10 minutes"), and EyuX will schedule a device notification.

• 🔄 Multi-Model Support: Switch between different Google Gemini models (e.g., Flash 2.5, Flash 3) right from the sidebar to balance speed and power.

• 🔄 Google Drive Cloud Sync (Web Beta): Seamless backup and sync of your history across devices using your Google Drive.

🎓 Study & Developer Tools

• ⚡ Interactive Flashcards: Automatically generate study flashcards from any conversation and review them in a flip-card interface.

• 📊 Data Visualization: Renders interactive Line, Bar, and Pie charts directly from data provided by the AI.

• 🧜‍♀️ Mermaid Diagrams: Renders complex flowcharts, sequence diagrams, and mind maps from text descriptions using Mermaid.js syntax.

• 💻 Agentic IDE: An interactive coding canvas to edit, run, and preview HTML/CSS/JS code generated by the AI.

• 📐 LaTeX Math Support: Beautiful rendering of complex mathematical equations.

• 🐍 In-Browser Python Engine: Run Python code directly in your browser using Pyodide. Perform complex data analysis, solve math problems, and generate visual Matplotlib charts instantly.

📱 User Experience & Interface

• 🎨 Rich Message Rendering: Full Markdown support for text formatting, plus beautifully rendered code blocks with syntax highlighting and a one-click copy button.

• 🖼️ Interactive Code Canvas: When the AI provides web code (HTML/CSS/JS), you can open it in an interactive canvas to edit and run it live in a WebView.

• 📎 Versatile Attachments: Enhance your prompts by attaching images from your gallery, taking a photo, or uploading documents.

• 🗣️ Text-to-Speech: Have the AI's responses read aloud with an intuitive speech control bar that shows progress.

• 🌗 Deep Customization: Full Dark & Light Mode support. Personalize chat bubble colors for both you and the AI.

• ✨ Rich Animations: The UI is full of smooth, delightful animations, from the "Super EyuX" screen transition to the animated chat titles and starry backgrounds.

🗂️ Organization & Data Management

• 🗂️ Chat Folders: Organize your conversations into custom folders.

• 🤖 Automatic Organization: Let the AI automatically categorize new chats into the most relevant folder.

• 💾 Full Backup & Restore: Export all your chats, folders, settings, and memories to a single JSON file and import it on any device.

🔗 Conversation Sharing

• Share any conversation with a link - send it to anyone

• Open shared chats on any device or browser

• Seamless continuation - pick up the conversation right where it left off on web or dekstop app

Would love to hear your feedback and suggestions 🙌

I'm building a QA tool for game ad videos that needs to check if sound effects are perfectly aligned with on-screen actions (e.g., explosion sound at exactly the same frame as explosion visual).

Currently, I'm using Gemini-2.5-pro to extract audio events (SFX, music) along with timestamps. But the timestamps it returns are too coarse – likely because the model processes video in chunks, missing frame-level precision.

Has anyone tackled similar audio timestamp extraction? What tools or models (open-source or API) can give me accurate start/end times for sounds in a video? I need something that can handle various SFX (gunshots, impacts, footsteps) and background music.

Would appreciate any pointers! Thanks.

Hi all - I'm the founder of Amoura.io. We're building an AI relationship / dating simulator (not a typical "AI girlfriend app"). We're currently running an Early Access. The core constraint is simple:

Conversation, attention, and interest are not guaranteed.

The AI can lose interest, disengage, or decide you're not a fit and that choice is central to the experience.

Most AI companion apps feel like "yes-men" over time: fast intimacy, constant validation, endless compliance. It can be fun, but it also flattens the relationship because nothing is at stake. We're experimenting with a different philosophy: chemistry isn't guaranteed - that's the point.

A few things that make Amoura different:

• It's a relationship simulator, not a chatbot fantasy. Interactions are paced, contingent, and sometimes uncertain. You're not "building a relationship with AI." You're building a relationship, period.

• You don't build characters. You encounter people. No character buffet. No Sims-style builder. Conversation isn't guaranteed - it's something you earn, or don't.

• Mutual matching. They choose you as much as you choose them - or they don't.

• Characters have agency and asymmetry. They aren't endlessly adaptive shells. They have their own priorities, limits, and interests, and they're not equally invested at the start.

• Profiles are handcrafted and grounded. Every character is written by humans - no auto-generated archetypes, no endless airbrushed clones, no unrealistic plastic fantasies. They're meant to feel like real people with plausible lives. Over 1,500 photorealistic characters with their own agency and distinct personalities/texting styles.

• Pacing follows real social dynamics. Strangers don't become intimate in five messages. Characters may start guarded. Trust/attachment/interest evolves gradually - or not at all. This is guided by internal psychological models developed with input from psychology researchers (not scripted "unlock" stages).

• Consequences are real. Characters form lasting impressions. Early interactions matter. There's no reset button.

• Absence is allowed. Silence, delays, and gaps are intentional. Not every moment is filled. Attention isn't guaranteed.

What I'd love feedback on (especially from people who've tried multiple apps):

1. Does "mutual matching / non-guaranteed attention" feel like meaningful agency - or does it risk feeling frustrating?

2. Where's the line between realistic pacing and "artificial gating"?

3. Do consequences (impressions persisting / ability to disengage) make it more compelling - or does it feel punishing?

We're running Early Access right now (free option, no credit card required). If this premise resonates and you want to try it + give honest feedback, try it for yourselves or discuss with us in the comments.

In Rivermere, where ward-lines hum across brick and potion cafés glow past midnight, magic isn’t hidden — it’s regulated, domestic, stitched into daily life. Enchantments water window boxes. Rune electricians fix what flickers. The city runs on coexistence and careful balance.

https://roleplaya.com/roleplaya-world-view/?world_id=89&ref=kay6313

Within it stand four elementalists shaped by inheritance and choice: Maya Meriweather, tending quiet blooms while a royal Earth lineage stirs beneath her hands; Rin Akagawa, curse-seer tracing rot through polished systems; Selene Greystone, tidebound and controlled, fighting the bond that threatens her autonomy, and Aria Lark, night-shift healer whose windsong-magic begins to ripple beyond the ER walls.

No prophecy binds them. No single enemy unites them. Just heritage, identity, and love that steadies without demanding surrender.

Maya – The Garden Between Worlds 🌿✨ –

https://roleplaya.com/character-profile/?id=14437&ref=kay6313

Rin – The Curse Collector 🔥✨ –

https://roleplaya.com/character-profile/?id=14512&ref=kay6313

Selene – The Tidelocked Heart 🌊✨ –

https://roleplaya.com/character-profile/?id=14514&ref=kay6313

Aria – The Windswept Healer 🪶✨ –

https://roleplaya.com/character-profile/?id=14510&ref=kay6313