You can probably just use any of the big chat programs, and just start out by telling it you want it to converse with you like it’s just another person.
Gemini has that “live” feature where you can talk out loud and it sounds like you’re talking to a real person. Combining that with pre-prompting for casual conversation is fairly convincing.
Playing with it on my own computer, locally hosting it and running it offline, has been pretty cool. I find it really impressive when it’s something open source and community driven. I also think there are a lot of useful applications for things that are traditionally not solvable with traditional programming.
However a lot of the pushed corporate AI feels not that useful, and there’s something about it that really rubs me the wrong way.
Alternative wording is gives you an erection for the rest of your life.
Having a usable product while your opponents continually shoot themselves in the foot is a viable market strategy.