Say what you want, in your own words.

The sentences below are just a small selection of things you can ask your assistant to help you with. The best way to find out what else it can do is to try, or see the full list here.

Getting dressed

Put something on

Put on the Needful Mayan skirt It already knows whether you are LaraX, Legacy or something else, so it never asks you which version you want.

Change one thing for another

Wear the short skirt instead In one step, so you are never standing there undressed in front of whoever is nearby while it thinks.

Keep a look you like

Save what I'm wearing as my native outfit If you already have an outfit by that name, the viewer asks before it overwrites it.

Ask who made something — yours, or somebody else's

Who made the boots Mira is wearing? Names come back as links you can click through to the profile.

Finding things

Find something you had forgotten you own

Find me the names of the skirts I bought last month It looks at folder names as well as item names, which is where the shop and the product usually are. Mistype a shop and it corrects you, and says that it did.

Be shown where it is, not told

Show me where my lily top is Your inventory opens with that row already selected, instead of a folder path read out to you.

Search inside your notecards, not just their names

Find me the notecard that has the link to the Legacy webpage Which is the whole point: the one you want is called READ ME, and so is every other one.

Find something around you

Is the UNA Prya vendor near here? By what you would call it, not what its maker named it. When it has only found something close, it asks before doing anything with it.

Search Second Life

Find me a place with live music Places and events from Second Life's own search. Listings that look like spam are pointed out, and it asks before taking you to one.

The viewer itself

This is the part that surprised me. An assistant that does things for you is useful; one that helps you find your own way around a viewer with a thousand settings in it is useful every single day.

Ask where a setting lives

Where do I change my draw distance? Preferences opens on the right tab with that one setting lit up and the rest hidden. It reads the answer out of the viewer in front of you, so it cannot send you hunting for a menu that is not there — and when something really is not in this viewer, it says so rather than inventing a path.

Have a window opened for you

Can you open my profile?

Or just have it changed

Set my draw distance to 64 It reads the value back afterwards, and refuses a number the setting does not accept instead of quietly storing it.

Photographs

Frame the shot

Take a portrait of me, from slightly to the left Head and shoulders, full length, wide, from any angle or height — of you, or of somebody standing nearby, however tall or small. You look at the picture and say what to change.

Change the light

Make it golden hour, with softer shadows Only you see it. The region is left alone.

People

Remember what was said

What did I last talk to Whisper about? It reads back the conversations your viewer has been saving all along, so “what did we decide last week” has an answer.

Say something without finding the window first

Tell Catten I'll be ten minutes The viewer shows you the exact words and asks before they are sent.

Catch up

Did anything happen while I was away? Notices, offers and messages that came in while you were offline, one card per person or group.

Have it remember something

Remember that Mira's birthday is in May Each avatar has its own memory. It keeps only what you ask it to, and tells you when it has.

Have your messages answered while you are away

Answer my IMs for the next hour, I'm at lunch You turn it on by asking, and it will automatically stop after an hour if you do not stop it before.

Getting around

Go somewhere

Take me to the Fruit Island terminal It knows where each of your landmarks leads, even when the name does not say.

Walk, sit, fly, follow

Walk over to the fountain

Writing things

Write a notecard, or a group notice

Write a notecard with a list of the friends I've had the most conversations with

Build something

Rez a red cube in front of me and make it spin It can put a new script in it too. What it writes waits for you to read and save, like any other script.

Get help with a script

Why won't this compile? It reads the script you have open and the lines you have selected, and writes the fix back into the window — then leaves it for you to save. A script runs in the world the moment it is saved, so somebody should have looked at it first.

Talking to it

Say it out loud

Put on my red dress and take me to the beach club Click the mic in the Assistant and talk. What you said is sent as soon as you stop, and nothing pops up over the viewer while it listens.

Keep talking back and forth

Tick Keep listening after each answer in Preferences → AI → Assistant, and one click lets you go back and forth until you click the mic again.

Nobody nearby hears it

Your voice chat microphone is switched off while it listens, and comes back on when it stops.

On a Mac it uses Apple's own speech recognition, in your Mac's language or the one you pick in Preferences. On Windows it uses Whisper, which runs on your own computer; that version is still early: it is slower than the Mac's, it can mishear more often, and it understands English only for now.

What it will not do

It cannot see. No picture of your screen or your avatar is ever sent anywhere. When it frames a photograph, you are the one looking at it.

It will not empty your Trash, and anything it deletes goes there rather than away.

It asks first — or rather, the viewer does. Before the assistant speaks for you, sends a message, gives or deletes something, builds, or takes you somewhere it found, a Yes / No box comes up saying exactly what it is about to do. You can tell it to remember your answer, and change your mind in Preferences → AI → Permissions.

It never answers a script's request for permission — to take your money, to animate you, anything. Those are yours alone.

It does not claim things it has not checked. Where it cannot confirm that something worked, it tells you that instead of telling you it worked. That sounds like a small thing and it is the most important one on this page: an assistant that is confidently wrong is worse than no assistant at all.

One thing to be aware of: what you type, and what the assistant looks up for you — chat, instant messages, the text of a notecard — is sent to whichever AI provider you chose, so that it can answer. Their privacy policy is the one that applies. With a model running on your own computer, none of it leaves the machine.

And an AI can be wrong, and it can do things you did not intend. Use this viewer at your own risk.

How to set up the AI →