Show HN: Ragdoll Studio (fka Arthas.AI) is the FOSS alternative to character.ai

1. ragdoll-studio

   1 12 184 9.4 Python

   The creative suite for character-driven AI experiences.

   

   It's a FOSS alternative because instead of using their online platform to make an account in order to interact with their characters, you instead download and run this source code without needing an account to interact with yours, and those in the community - even offline if you want.

   There's more to it than just chatting with AI models - these "ragdolls" are based on RAG so they are able to have distinct personalities and scoped knowledge. They can't leak info they don't know about, can't be censored from talking about things they do know about, and can be exported and shared with others on the community site. The model itself is more like the underlying engine, where the ragdoll is a specific persona that you can deploy to a variety of tasks (starting with just chat).

   I want to go beyond what character.ai is even dreaming of doing by making this into a creative suite for all things AI: Chat, storytelling, art & visual design, cinematography, CGI, music & sound effects, and so-on. It would be great to have an open-source character-focused tool for making stories, cinematics, films, music, etc. Here's an example that uses a ragdoll as an NPC in a game that has specific knowledge that the player can uncover in order to advance in the game: https://github.com/bennyschmidt/ragdoll-studio/tree/master/e...

   Thanks for the question, I will add a section on how these are fundamentally different from just chatting with ChatGPT.

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3. llama_index

   2 78 41,098 9.9 Python

   LlamaIndex is the leading framework for building LLM-powered agents over your data.

   

   For anyone curious llamaindex's "prompt mixins", they're actually dead simple: https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/blob/8a8324008764a7... - and maybe no longer supported.

   I basically reinvented this wheel in ragdoll but made it more dynamic: https://github.com/bennyschmidt/ragdoll/blob/master/src/util...

4. ragdoll

   3 1 89 8.8 JavaScript

   The library for character-driven AI experiences. (by bennyschmidt)

   

   For anyone curious llamaindex's "prompt mixins", they're actually dead simple: https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/blob/8a8324008764a7... - and maybe no longer supported.

   I basically reinvented this wheel in ragdoll but made it more dynamic: https://github.com/bennyschmidt/ragdoll/blob/master/src/util...

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