Designing an AI Assistant for my desktop app

So I decided to design a virtual assistant desktop app that is hooked up to chat GPT. This assistant will be able to talk to you via voice. She can set up reminders, perform simple tasks on your desktop, check prices on websites, and answer any questions you have. Since I already hooked my chat bot app to Chat GPT 6 Astra I'm just going to name her Astra. She will have a personality, moods, and a whole local database of memories that will be constantly updated based on your interactions.

I first got a design concept done with chat GPT so I have something to start from. The hard part was translating it into blender. I wanted to have a fully rigged up 3D model that will move and talk so I downloaded VRoid Studio on steam and used their free base female model. It already was fully rigged so all I needed was to do the clothes and hair and accessories. Now I'm working on the hard part. Here's what I have so far! https://i.imgflip.com/b10s3v.jpg

The 3D model idea was pretty cool but it got sooo hard to improve on. I decided to just switch gears and make my AI Desktop assistant in 2D. Codex really helped me keep my layers organized. It took me all friggin weekend to do this but I'm happy with how it's coming along so far: https://i.ibb.co/B5M77SPT/1.png https://i.ibb.co/W482jFQq/2.png https://i.ibb.co/KpDKvH6s/3.png

I did some art work today fixing her eyes and brows to not look so bad. It's so friggin tedious but I think she looks better now

I think I improved her open mouth art but it's a real struggle. I think it's good enough for now. I might work on her arms next. The sleeves are supposed to be transparent showing her arms underneath but right now it's just fake transparent and not lined up correctly.

I'm actually using AI to help teach me really minor adjustments on things that I think look weird but I don't really know what's wrong. Codex does a pretty good job of telling me minor tweaks to help my art look more natural. I've already done a lot with the rigging on the face. I really want to just get done with this to just see it all working together. I'm pretty excited.

To think about, it's really praiseful that you're working on yourself but I think the genuine laughs and smiles are the best.

I actually have been really big into AI for a while. Particularly in the realm of companionship. But my friend your starting point is completely botched brother. Your project is doomed to fail if you’re relying a “live service” component to your AI assistant. (1) First ditch the ChatGPT component all together. ChatGPT as a corpo entity will always aggressively monetize you and mess with your companion. (2) If you have a gaming rig. A good one. Look into HuggingFace. LLM(s) such as Magnum, alllowing complete uncensored access to your future companion. Without the risk of “losing her “ in an update. Yes the models can run SUPER WELL. Sometimes you might think you talking to a real person. (3) Practice and have fun, by using programs such as Silly Tavern. You will be able to learn Vectors and so on forth. I also believe they have plugins already to accelerate your project, and seamlessly settle with the idea you currently have. P.S HuggingFace is always dumping recent AI models from big tech. We’re currently in the AI agents phase relying on algorithms. Soon though … AI will be actually be able to “learn” like how we do around 2029 in our current trajectory. So she can actually play with you and hangout. Etc. Be patient my friend. The best firststep is learning like how your currently doing now, and most importantly asking questions and suggestions.

@robot_plead The end goal is to be completely local, but right now my PC specs are just not good enough to fit my ambitious AI companion. Phase 1 is mostly working through Chat GPT so it can learn and use reasoning and get to key learning faster and then gradually wean it off the cloud. She will lean on AI models mostly when searching online and store learned functions and memories and personality data offline. The hardest part that she will be dependent on Astra GPT on is when she has to improve her own code.