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Favourite AI Assistant App?

Hey fellow HNers,

I'm curious to know what's your favorite AI assistant tool, aside from ChatGPT and Gemini?

What AI assistant have you found to be the most useful, and how do you use it?

Thanks for your suggestions! Cheers

I started getting very serious about AI when I got early access to GPT 3. Before that I was using Google Dialogflow to build AI powered chatbots. Since then I downloaded, installed and tested literally hundreds and hundreds of AI related software application. At first this was really exciting ... I thought "wow this software is going to change everything" ... then a few days later another application would be released and another and another and until I became paralyzed by the amount of choices available. This resulted in a huge amount of stress. For months and months I had analysis paralysis. Eventually I settled on Supabase/PGvector for RAG (mostly because it provides Row Level Security for data/vectors) and this gave me a strong foundation to build on. Now I use Supabase, Vercel AI SDK with Svelte and N8N and mostly Claude Sonnet 3.5 as my LLM (with OpenAI O1 for more complex tasks and GPT 4o mini for cheaper inference). I also use Cursor (with the same models) every day which is amazing.

Cursor is indeed an amazing tool. I use it daily as well. Have you tried using it with any other LLMs, or are you sticking with the Claude Sonnet 3.5 and OpenAI O1 combo?

Btw have you explored any AI frameworks like JAX or Haiku?

I’ve been running n8n through Onestack.cloud for automation, which really helps simplify some of the workflow chaos. They also host tools like LibreChat, which has been a game changer for all-in-one LLM needs.

Cursor for sure. If your code is all in one repo (e.g. frontend and backend), it's awesome for context.

I bought the SlimSaaS kit, and I just pump out non-stop products with Cursor. Also, if you use a UI component library, the AI does a much better job at design.

Elevenlabs for voice/marketing.

You bought it? How come you announced that you launched it 70 days ago?

The context switching between frontend and backend is cool. I have become so much more productive.

As for Elevenlabs, how do you find the voice synthesis quality?

Been using the tool I built as an assistant :) of course, it's great for me for knowledge management & retrieval https://saner.ai/

I've been experimenting with Notion's AI assistant, which is still in beta. It's been super helpful for task management and organization

are you using it to auto-assign tasks, generate to-do lists, or something else entirely?

My favourite is Link Suggestions which recommends relevant pages and databases to link. It helps to build a more interconnected knowledge base in my Notion

I've been using Otter.ai. I use it for both personal and professional meetings, and it's been a game-changer for my productivity.

That's awesome to hear. I've been considering using it for meeting notes as well

I guess Cursor.ai is an assistant. 10X productivity

+1 for Cursor

When it comes to coding, it's a defo yes

I've been using Nomi.ai as a research assistant, tutor, and interlocutor.

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