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Ask HN: What are some of the best ChatGPT Clients out there?

by thsbrown on 4/17/23, 6:50 PM with 24 comments

• by jakear on 4/17/23, 7:14 PM

  I recently made a VS Code extension for this, basically you use VS Code's Notebooks as the chat substrate. The benefit with this is you can edit both sides (actually all three sides, including "system") of the conversation to better tune the agent's responses.

  The notebook format on disk is simple JSON that can easily be consumed by other code, supports version control, parameters like temp/etc.

  It even has experimental (initial) support for LLaMa/other local models. And it can run the remote models (GPT-*) on web (https://vscode.dev / https://github.dev)!

  Search "LLM Book" in vscode extension page or just follow the link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jaaxxx.l...

  (Technically not "ChatGPT" as it's the paid API powered model, but this way is far more powerful in my experience and you pay pennies. That said the endpoint can be configured to talk to any OpenAI-like endpoint.)

  Happy to talk issues/feature requests at https://github.com/JacksonKearl/ai-book

• by nyellin on 4/17/23, 6:51 PM

  CLI: https://github.com/npiv/chatblade

• by copperx on 4/17/23, 7:02 PM

  For quick and easy, I like https://www.chatbotui.com

  Plug in your API key and start chatting. Chats are stored in your browser. You can also run it locally, if you wish. https://github.com/mckaywrigley/chatbot-ui

• by DigitalDopamine on 4/17/23, 7:05 PM

  For web i use -> https://www.chatbotui.com (has exports, and custom prompts)

  For CLI -> https://github.com/lennardv2/hey-chatgpt-cli

• by bleep_bloop on 4/17/23, 7:14 PM

  I've been using Quora's Poe. There's a universal iOS and Mac OS app as well as a web interface all synced, also has other AIs other than ChatGPT to quickly switch and compare outputs. I actually find that ChatGPT isn't the most useful for giving me a lot of my answers.

  Poe also has a community feature so you can share and see each others queries and AI responses and share links to non Poe users.

  Haven't found any other app that isn't just a simple chat window with zero other features other than Poe, would love to try others that add value over OpenAI's web interface.

• by cmer on 4/17/23, 7:07 PM

  TypingMind is quite good. There's a MacOS wrapper, or you could wrap it into an executable for Windows yourself.

  https://www.typingmind.com

• by DerJacques on 4/17/23, 7:09 PM

  I built https://chitty-app.com/, which is a free client for MacOS (available via the App Store). It supports GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 in a simple iMessage-like UI.

  Chitty also allows you to create custom assistants. It comes pre-loaded with Abraham Lincoln, Alan Turing, Jane Austen, etc., but you it's easy to add your own. I added myself as a custom assistant, which allows for ultimate rubber ducking :D

  The app supports streaming responses and markdown (incl. multi-line code blocks).

• by wktra on 4/17/23, 11:10 PM

  So far, I'm loving Chat Box. https://github.com/Bin-Huang/chatbox

• by huijzer on 4/17/23, 7:06 PM

  > My main gripe with it though is that the actual interface is quite limited, and I don't like having to navigate to the site every time I want to use it.

  https://github.com/rikhuijzer/ata. Written in Rust. Does streaming responses and supports Emacs keyboard shortcuts. That's it. All that's needed for quickly looking up things.

• by rmorey on 4/17/23, 7:05 PM

  Not sure if it's exactly what you're going for, but on Apple platforms, I really like Federico Viticci's S-GPT: https://www.macstories.net/ios/introducing-s-gpt-a-shortcut-...

• by sharemywin on 4/17/23, 8:45 PM

  I created a one page client in python and tkinter for GPT-3.5. ok I had chatgpt write most of it.

  It's nothing special but it logs the conversations and allows for back and forth and multiline inputs.

  https://github.com/gnuconcepts/ChatWindowGPT

  I don't think it's a bad starting point if you want something to expand on.

• by nkrumm on 4/17/23, 7:16 PM

  Are there any projects that are targeting enterprise/business use cases? I would love to have:

    - a ChatGPT web ui (like chatbot-ui), 
    - but server side and (self-)hosted 
    - and with our own SSO auth. 
    - Bonus points for including Azure OpenAI endpoint connectivity + auditing/logging by user.
  

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• by keithnoizu on 4/17/23, 7:16 PM

  Not my stuff but maybe in a few weeks as there's some additional concepts involved.

  https://github.com/noizu-labs-ml/noizu-ops

  https://github.com/noizu-labs/noizu-collab

• by Yackson0031 on 4/18/23, 3:38 PM

  AskYourPdf is a great AI tool that turns your document into a chat interface allowing you to ask questions and receive answers from the content of your document.

  It saves and allows you to export your chats. Its a great tool for those who work with documents frequently.

  Https://www.askyourpdf.com

• by kirillrogovoy on 4/17/23, 7:08 PM

  I use https://github.com/karthink/gptel to talk to GPT in Emacs and, by extension, have a record of all my conversations (unless intentionally removed) as simple Org files in my single Org-Roam network.

• by dmje on 4/17/23, 7:22 PM

  I started with Poe which I still us on my iPhone but have been trying MacGPT[0]. I really like the minimal interface and mac-wide shortcut key but the input is very laggy. Could be my older Mac.

  [0] https://www.macgpt.com/

• by woodylondon on 4/17/23, 7:18 PM

  Best i have found is https://www.macgpt.com/

• by hagonzalez94 on 4/17/23, 7:29 PM

  I'm a fan of open book ai on iOS. Feels a lot like the polished web interface with edits and what not