Key Points
Akshat Jagga, Dippys CEO, says that adding an additional layer of simulated thinkingusing whats known as chain-of-thought promptingcan elicit more interesting and surprising responses, too..
One Dippy character, described as Bully on the outside, warm on the inside, revealed a soft side behind the gruff exterior when I clicked the Read thought process link beneath each message, but both the inner and outer dialogs lacked nuance or surprise and were repetitive..
With little promotion, Dippy has amassed 500,000 monthly and 50,000 daily active users, Jagga says, with people spending, on average, an hour on the app at a time..
A recent report from investment firm Andreessen Horowitz shows that the top 100 generative AI tools based on usage include many AI companions; the chart on engagement among users of such apps shows how much stickier they are than just about anything else out there...
Jagga says that 70 percent of Dippys accounts tend to favor male characters, which could mean that many users identify as female...
