Create Your Own Chatbot with Prompts: Quora's Poe App

Poe, an app developed by Quora, now allows users to create personalized chatbots using prompts combined with existing bots like ChatGPT as the foundation. This innovative step brings cutting-edge AI technologies, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, to the fingertips of consumers through a user-friendly mobile interface. Poe initially supported general knowledge chatbots like Sage, Dragonfly, and Claude, later adding subscriptions for powerful language models like GPT-4 and Claude+.

The latest update enables users to develop customized bots using prompts to direct the AI towards specific tasks or styles. This development has given rise to a new group of prompt engineers and online communities that share prompt ideas. Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo highlighted that users can now base their bots on Claude or ChatGPT, and even showcased examples such as a pirate talk bot, a Japanese language tutor, and an emoji message converter.

Available on iOS, Android, and desktop web interfaces, users can access and follow their favorite bots with ease. For now, Quora covers all costs associated with this feature, including language model fees. Future plans involve providing creators with user feedback for bot improvement and developing an API to allow hosting complex bots from personal servers.

Poe's popularity has been on the rise, with 1.17 million installs and $520,000 in gross revenue to date. It currently ranks 32nd in the App Store's Productivity category.