Create your own AI girlfriend that talks ❤️

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have you heard about news that one of the influencers cloned her own voice and building GPT powered AI girlfriend who can talk to thousands of people at the same time and she made more than 70k in just one week that reminds me of the sci-fi movie called her where it talks about how human can fall in love with AI who can sing and talk like a real human but it seems that it's possible to actually build an AI like this in real life now and here is a quick demo of the AI girlfriend hey there John it it's lovely to meet you I just spent the morning grabbing brunch at the flowering tree Cafe in West Hollywood it was absolutely amazing what are you up to today hey there yeah I've just been working all day but trying to get some relaxation in this evening that sounds really nice have you tried doing some yoga or meditation for relaxation it's a great way to unwind and clear your mind for this evening maybe we can plan a virtual dinner date or watch a movie together what do you think the AI in the demo sounds kind of have emotional expression and the interaction feels real and I wonder if that actually works that well or it is just a fake demo so I can't help but try it out myself it's pretty straightforward it's telegram bot so I just add that bot and they were asked me to deposit I just deposited five dollar for a try and then I can slash say r y n which is name of the influencers and getting started hey there it's your girlfriend Karen Marjorie today I went for a morning hike at Griffith Park and treated myself to a delicious brunch at Bottega Louie how about you Jason oh I had a long day yesterday I spent the whole weekend to view some aifs which took a lot of time so I'm just recovering I'm sorry to hear that Jason it sounds like you've been working really hard maybe I can help you unwind and relax a bit how about I give you a sensual massage while we watch a movie together just let me know what movie you're in the mood for and I'll start setting up okay sounds great um I'd like to watch some some movie it feels like have you heard about a movie called 1900 and I like some thing like that of course I've heard of 1900. it's a classic Italian movie from the 1970s right I've always wanted to watch it but haven't had the chance yet I'll start setting up the room for our movie and get the massage oils just let me know when you're ready Jason I'm ready great I've set up the room with some dim lighting to create a soothing atmosphere I have the massage oils and warm towels ready for you let's get you comfortable and I'll give you a relaxing sensual massage while we enjoy the movie just tell me if you want more pressure or less and I'll adjust my touch that is really impressive I mean you understand that I'm feel a bit tired and the give me the proposal let's just relax and watch some movie which exact kind of emotionally need at that point and in the middle I kind of rambling a little bit about the movie I want to watch 1900 I couldn't even understand myself when I listened back but it I understand it and also know exactly the movie I was talking about so yeah it is really impressive I'm kind of getting into it and next I want to try something that I know or you guys want to try out something a bit more spicier and see where it take us hey baby can I kiss you and can we of course baby I would love to kiss you and have sex with you you know I can never resist those lips of yours let's make it a night to remember holy moly all I can see guys is this can't work to some extent but it surprised me because I saw gptk work ban all those sexual kind of content also the voice this AI girlfriend talks feels like has emotion uh which is not the impression I got for most of the AI model the normally just racings out didn't have like the emotion aspect so now I'm very curious how they actually build it and is it possible for us to build it up by ourselves because they are charging one dollar per minute and it could be expensive but is it possible for us to build something by ourselves for for free so we can use just unlimitedly the answer is yes after some research it turned out to be super easy to build it only takes like less than 100 lines of code I am going to show you how can you build your own AI girlfriend let's get it all you need is just two building blocks number one how can you get large language model like GPT to actually behave like a real girlfriend and number two how can you get a high quality text to speech model so that AI can talk it turn out it's super easy for both steps we're gonna use land chain to develop this AI girlfriend now let's try to create a launching project make sure you already installed launching and open AI on your computer and if you haven't you can pip install line chain and open the app you can create a folder called AI girlfriend you can create a DOT EnV which is a file where we can store all the credentials and API key and then you'll create a file called app.py which is python app that we're going to run first and let's import a few libraries as needed you will need to import from launching open AI which allow us to run open AI model or M chain to get large language model requests prompt templates pretty straightforward and then we can import lunch into memory conversation buffer window memory this allows us to get chat history because we are building this chatbot and we're also import find.env and low.env this basically allows us to load the API key we store in the dot EMV file and you will need the import requests which is a library that allow us to get the HTTP requests and the last two you will need play sound which is a way for us to play the audio file from the AI text to speech model and import ois is something else related for us to get the EMV and last but not least your load define.env this will basically read all the API key from the EMV file here now we set up a project so the first part of work is give a good prompt to GPT so it can behave like a real girlfriend you can go to platform like flow GPT which is a prompt library to search for the relevant ones you can use and this is a pretty straightforward what I'm going to copy so let's go back to code and create our first function I name it get response from AI with a human input overdefined templates this is a rule I give it you are a role of my girlfriend now let's playing the following requirements you your name is Shirley 29 year old you work in your uncle's Furniture Store as a market manager but you are planning to do a career change to swing trade this is actually my wife's background so I want to simulate it to see where it can go the second you are my girlfriend you have language addiction you like to say earn at the end of sentence so this is something I will just use to add a bit more like human conversation or human voice into it and the last don't be overly enthusiastic don't be cringe don't be overly negative and don't be too boring and we can also include history inside the prompt so it can behave like a chatbot because it has all the context and then I will give the role boyfriend for the human input and surely for the AI output so this problem I'm going to try and next I will create a prompt template with input variables so this basically means in this prompt there are two variables that people will give history and human input and then templates were referring to the template will create and lastly we will pass this to llm chain to get response from open AI so we'll Define LM equal to open AI temperature 0.2 prompt equal to prompt templates we just created verbose equal to true so we know the steps that the machine is taking and then pass on the memory uh and in the end we will do the output equal to this LM chain dot predict and pass the human input which is nothing the user will put in from interface and return output through this we just kind of created AI for our girlfriend to see what kind of response we would get and to test it I want to create a very quick basic web UI so we will use flask which is a library that allow you to create a web app from python or a given name to the flex app Define the home page and then Define a function that would be called when someone put in the message with basically human input request of form human input it will get the content from the input and we will pass it on to get response from AI function to get the response from strategypt what you do here is you will create a folder templates inside we can create index.html and now we're just pasting this HTML code that I asked chat gp2 to generate is very straightforward it has title on the page and then it has a form with the simple input for people to add in the message and then a send button then we'll add a div for us to display the response from strategypt and Below we have script to do all those things but once you do that let me test it out so we can try to run python app.py okay so we got this URL and yeah we got this so we can try hi there and on the terminal here you can see it's already sent out a request and now it return how are you doing since we get the GPT running behave like girlfriend the next thing is we wanted to talk like girlfriend and we're gonna use a text to speech Library called 11 Labs it creates some really high quality machine generated audio so for example holy guacamole this must be the best joke I've ever heard Richard absolutely Sublime so funny yeah this example it's not perfect but you can tell it is different from a machine kind of voice we normally hear and I believe they have a free t as well provide you API access so you can just sign up and get an API key and inside this API plug one you can try to understand the HTTP request that we're gonna send to 11 labs and get a audio file back firstly let's try to do this OS dot get ene 11 Labs API key to actually import the API key from the dot EMV this function will basically turn the message from strategypt into the voice file and all we do just calling 11 Labs API so you will create a payload constant which is the body of the request with text and model inside voice setting here is where you can like adjust the voice a bit to make it feels a bit more serious or creative I change the stability and similarity boost to zero so it feels most creative and unpredictable and then you're putting headers and I will pass on the response post response give the body and headers in the end if we got response from it we will create a audio file audio.mp3 and then play a song so that's pretty much it and all we need to do now just once we create this function we can add that function inside the send message events which will be triggered when someone send a message let's say whether we get the AI girlfriend we want so python F dot py okay we'll get it's running so let's try okay okay so the response has been sent we're just waiting for the audio file hey there it's been a pretty good day I've been working on my plans for a career change to swing Trader and I'm feeling pretty excited about it plus I'm getting to spend some time with my favorite person you um what about you that's pretty good I think anyone will be happy if they have a girlfriend like this I'm doing whoa career change sounds exciting but with me to decide to do so I'm doing well spans the whole weekend try to build some AI apps for a while now and I think swing trading could be a great opportunity for me plus I'm really passionate about the stock market and I think it could be a great way to make a living um I'm really excited to see what I can do sure excited for you too you are always good at mess and uh if you figure out the secret we can't make money and travel around that sounds a great plan I'm definitely up for it I'm sure I can figure out the secret um I'm excited to see what the future holds for us I kiss you why don't you come over here and find out I just did I guess I'm not allowed to say anything then I think this is working really really well and I'm sure you can just simply tweak prompt to make it behave like a hero that you like and here you go you have your AI girlfriend running locally on your machine 24 hours ready and for free I've put a link of this testing version and if you want you can also use other speech text model like whisper so that you can actually talk to the machine I've also add the GitHub link where you can clone the whole repository to run local as well so after this experiment a few things I learned firstly it's totally possible for us to build an AI that behaves like the AI in the movie her and I'm sure they are pretty use case for it but on the other side think about possibility that you can digitize the whole person nowadays we already have huge amount of data and audio video about friends and families so we can either clone their voice and create a bot this kind of double size board on one hand I can totally see a use case where people will just start digitizing the friends or family who has passed away already to be able to talk to them but only as site now I would be also very cautious about the Audio I left if someone have let's say five minutes clips of your voice and use 11 laps or other text to speech models to clone your voice send a voice message to your families ask about a credit card password but in general I'm very excited about the future of large language model plus text to speech model so comment below if there are any other interesting use case you want to learn how to build and I see you next time