Chat

Chat is the main surface you land on: a prompt composer with your recent conversations close at hand. It’s where you ask questions and start and continue threads with the general assistant. The left sidebar is your main navigation. Chat is the headline destination; Messages, Contacts, Personas, and Artifacts sit alongside it. Settings lives in the account menu at the bottom.

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What you can do

• Ask and converse. Type a prompt and get a streamed reply. Conversations are kept as threads you can return to.
• Use voice input. Click the microphone in the prompt window to dictate your message, see Voice input below.
• Switch Offline or Online. Use the dropdown in the prompt bar to choose how Chat answers, see Offline and Online mode below.
• Apply a skill. Click + in the prompt window and choose a skill from the dropdown to shape how a run behaves.
• Run locally in Offline mode. When you use a downloaded model in Offline mode, replies are generated on your machine, not in the cloud.
• Manage a reply. Regenerate an answer, or use Answer as to have a different persona respond to the same message.

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Answer as, choose which persona responds

Every reply has an Answer as control in its toolbar (the dropdown next to the regenerate and copy buttons). Open it and pick any of your personas, the General Assistant, a specialist you’ve built, or any other, and that persona answers the conversation. It’s the quickest way to get a second perspective, or to hand a question to a more suitable persona, without starting a new thread.

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Offline and Online mode

Use the Offline / Online dropdown in the prompt bar to choose how Chat answers your next message. Offline is the default. Chat uses your local setup, when you have a downloaded model, replies are generated on your machine. Online turns on web search for that message. webAI searches the internet for current information and weaves the results into the answer. Citations to the source websites appear in the reply so you can see where the information came from.

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Skills

Skills are reusable add-ons that shape how the assistant handles a request, applying one tailors the way that response is approached, so you don’t have to spell out the same instructions every time. To use one, click + in the prompt window and select a skill from the skills dropdown. It applies to that message, then the assistant replies with the skill guiding how it works.

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Voice input

Click the microphone in the prompt window to speak instead of type. webAI listens and transcribes your speech into the composer. When the text looks right, click Send to submit the message. The same microphone control is available when you chat with a persona on the Personas tab, see Personas.

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Recent conversations

• Recent threads appear on the Chat home and in the sidebar. You can rename and delete them.
• Direct and group conversations with people stay out of this list, those live in Messages.

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Common questions