Favourite AI Assistant App?

6 points by brody_slade_ai 12 hours ago

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

tonyoconnell 10 hours ago

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.

NoSEVDev 10 hours ago

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.

  • timc3 8 hours ago

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

webmaven 2 hours ago

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

nancy_le 12 hours ago

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

  • brody_slade_ai 12 hours ago

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

    • nancy_le 8 hours ago

      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

newshacker1 11 hours ago

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

kayduyenma 12 hours ago

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.

  • brody_slade_ai 12 hours ago

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