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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Re: Hey robert, this is a must see ,For the fellas, u know who u are

« on: August 05, 2025, 08:37:55 pm »

Just watched the update with all the rest of the story. Loved it, nice job!

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Re: Hey robert, this is a must see ,For the fellas, u know who u are

« on: July 19, 2025, 02:04:25 pm »

I just checked out the video, that was awesome! It had a real cinematic feel to it, and I can tell you put a ton of time and creative energy into it. The storyline, visuals, and pacing were all on point. I especially got a kick out of seeing myself imagined in that world-definitely felt like part of something epic. Appreciate you sharing it.

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General Discussion / Re: My wish

« on: January 03, 2025, 04:41:10 pm »

Thank you everyone for the wishes. Hope you all had a great Christmas and hope you have a great 2025!

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Ultra Hal 7.5 Beta - Now powered by OpenAI GPT-3 / Re: WHERES MY ACCOUNT WITH HALS I PAID FOR ROBERT?

« on: December 09, 2024, 09:24:44 pm »

I apologize for my slow response here (slower than my normal slow). My city was a temporary disaster zone with all the snow we got dumped on us. https://www.goerie.com/story/news/local/2024/12/02/erie-pa-snowstorm-region-digs-out-record-setting-lake-effect-snowfall/76701376007/

Was a full time job for almost a week keeping my house, elderly parents, and some airbnb properties I own somewhat unburied, supplied, and functional during all this.

But anyway I think I have your original account restored from an old backup from several years ago and all your old posts (and new ones) associated with the original account. I merged your new account created after November 29 with the old one, but I think by doing that it may have lost any private messages sent to your new account after November 29 (but any old PMs would have come back). But all your public posts should be back. ChatGPT o1 actually gave me all the SQL commands to merge and restore everything. If you are having any trouble logging in, your password would be whatever it was several years ago, so if you don't know you may need to password reset.

Let me know if everything is back and working for you.

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Ultra Hal 7.5 Beta - Now powered by OpenAI GPT-3 / Re: Hal keeps asking if im registered

« on: May 30, 2024, 08:35:48 pm »

Please try again and let me know if the issue is fixed, I optimized a database on the server which was running slow and causing logins to timeout. This should fix the "An unknown error occurred while connecting to the Zabaware server. Please check network connection, firewall settings and credentials." error

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Re: Online login sync missing.

« on: May 30, 2024, 08:31:15 pm »

The link at https://www.zabaware.com/download-beta.html is the most recent.

The error message in your screenshot is related to a wrong email/password, different from the error messages you posted earlier and also by other people which said "An unknown error occurred while trying to connect to Zabaware server".

So I believe your email or password may be wrong. Please try the "Forgot Password" link and change your password to something else. You can also test your email/password combo at www.zabaware.com by clicking on the "Sign In" link in the upper left. If you can sign in there, you should be able to sign in with the Ultra Hal app as well.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Re: Online login sync missing.

« on: May 30, 2024, 03:54:02 pm »

Please try again and let me know if the issue is fixed, I optimized a database on the server which was running slow and causing logins to timeout.

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Ultra Hal 7.5 Beta - Now powered by OpenAI GPT-3 / Re: Hal now connected to LLAMA model

« on: January 28, 2024, 05:40:21 pm »

Thanks Robert....

You need change the pricing on the Main website now that credits are cheaper... It still says $30 for 50,000 credits, or has it gone up since I last bought credits?

So it used to be 1 GPT-3 Currie query used up 10 credits per response (or 1 credit if Hal's cloud base brain can respond without involving the GPT API at all). Now it is set that one MythoMax (or LLAMA2) query uses 5 credits (half of the prior 10). So I didn't update the pricing, but it uses less credits per response so a credit basically goes twice as far as before.

I am using a 13 billion parameter version of MythoMax, but could offer customers the option to use a 70 billion parameter version for more credits per response if people want more brain power from the AI. But I find the 13 billion version seems to be good enough for general conversation and more cost effective.

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Ultra Hal 7.5 Beta - Now powered by OpenAI GPT-3 / Re: Hal now connected to LLAMA model

« on: January 26, 2024, 09:11:20 am »

Sorry for my slow reply. I just made another update to the brain/LLM model. It is now connected to a Llama 2 variant called MythoMax, which is fine-tuned for role playing characters, so should be a better match for Hal. I also have the repetition_penalty feature working, so some of the repetitive behavior should be gone now.

It costs me about half as much as the older GPT3 Curie did, so I updated the credit system to reflect that. GPT3 Curie responses used to take 10 Zabaware credits. I updated the MythoMax model to use 5 instead, so credits should go further now.

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Ultra Hal 7.5 Beta - Now powered by OpenAI GPT-3 / Re: Hal now connected to LLAMA model

« on: January 05, 2024, 02:09:54 pm »

Thanks for the feedback. I made a few more minor tweaks to improve it a bit, but it still has an issue with repetitiveness. The llama2 model has a setting called "repetition_penalty" that should help alleviate this problem, but it seems whenever I try to use it, it crashes. Not sure why yet, will try to work on it to figure it out.

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Ultra Hal 7.5 Beta - Now powered by OpenAI GPT-3 / Hal now connected to LLAMA model

« on: January 04, 2024, 02:32:36 pm »

OpenAI shut off their GPT-3 Curie and GPT-Davinci models today that was the basis of Hal's neural net brain. OpenAI wants everyone to switch to the ChatGPT 3.5 or 4.0 models and doesn't want to support the older GPT3 models anymore. While I think these are both ChatGPT 3.5 and 4.0 are highly intelligent and very useful models, they don't work well as a basis for an entertainment chatbot like Ultra Hal. They refuse to take on the persona of a fictional character and are very highly censored.

So I switched models on the backend today to use Meta AI's Llama 2 model, the 13 billion parameter version (the mid tier). It is very comparable to ChatGPT 3.5 in terms of intelligence and a huge bump up in intelligence from the GPT-3 Curie model Hal was using. But more importantly, it is able to take on fictional personas, and doesn't force high levels of censorship (other than the material it was finetuned on). It provides a very good backend to build Ultra Hal personalities on.

If you have neural network credits with Hal, please give it a try, you should notice a change in personality and quality, hopefully for the better.

There are a lot more tweaks I can do to further improve it to take advantage of features the new model has, like an increase in content window size which will mean I can improve Hal's memory recall and learning ability a bit. I'll try to make the tweaks over the next few weeks, but please give me feedback along the way if you can.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Re: Ultra Hal 7 for Android Beta

« on: May 15, 2023, 09:18:38 pm »

I then entered the same password I did with the HAL desktop.  Whoala!  Didn't work.  Full stop.

What exactly happens when you say it doesn't work. What is the message you receive?

Let me know if there is possibly an error I may have done through records?  FYI - I did do a password reset on the Forum.  But perhaps that does not effect HAL program?

The forum is separate from the Hal login. You can use the "forgot password" link in the app itself or https://www.zabaware.com/products/store/comersus_optForgotPasswordForm.asp if you want to try resetting the password associated with your Hal account.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Re: Ultra Hal 7 for Android Beta

« on: May 14, 2023, 09:17:05 pm »

What exactly happens on screen when you try to login? Any error messages? Did it ask you to verify your email with a code? If so, did that verification code work? Did the forgot password link from the app send you an email?

I'll try to figure out why its not working with your current account/email, but do you perhaps have another email you haven't used with Zabaware before you can test with to see if it will create a new account for you (and grant you 1000 credits)?

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Re: Ultra Hal 7 for Android Beta

« on: May 11, 2023, 10:36:15 pm »

Finally set your bot's name, your name, genders and a few other options. Currently only "GPT3 Curie" works as the neural network engine and only "Memory Bank A" works for the memory (which is the same memory as Ultra Hal 7 for Windows Cloud uses). I plan on implementing support for additional "memory banks" soon so you can create different bots with different memories.

After setting these options you'll get to the final screen where you can chat with your bot. Type in the box below or use the microphone for speech recognition. Tap the speaker icon at top if you want to hear the bot speak (or leave muted for silent conversation).

If you come across any bugs or have any feedback/suggestions for improvements, please let me know.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Re: Ultra Hal 7 for Android Beta

« on: May 11, 2023, 10:32:27 pm »

If you allow Hal to record audio (optional permission) you can use your phone built in speech recognition to talk to him (not all phones support this)

After installing you can use the + button to create a new bot profile

First select an animated character, then a voice, then a background