Build a Simple Chat Character Gallery like Character AI Tutorial

What is a Chat Character Gallery?

Chat character gallery simply a term I come up with to describe apps like Character AI or other similar apps where you can browse, discover, and chat with a wide range of AI-powered characters. Each chatbot is designed to emulate a unique personality, speaking style, and backstory, allowing you to experience lifelike conversations that feel true to the character’s identity.

Think of it as a blend of roleplay, storytelling, and AI, wrapped in an interactive chat format.

What You’ll Build

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a simple Chat Character Gallery. A web app where users can explore a collection of unique AI characters and chat with them in real time.

By the end, you’ll have a fully functional app that allows users to:

• 🧠 Create and customize new characters, defining how they talk, behave, and interact.

• 🔍 Browse a list of AI characters, each with their own name, personality, and behavior.

• 💬 Start conversations with any character and experience context-aware, human-like replies.

• 🗂️ Maintain conversation history so users can come back and continue previous chats.

By the end, you’ll have an app similar in spirit to Character AI (not exactly the same, but the essential features are there 😁), you can improve the app to make it your own!

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📝 About This Tutorial Series

To keep things digestible and beginner-friendly, this tutorial is broken down into a multi-part posts. Each part will focus on a specific feature or step — so you won’t feel overwhelmed with too much content at once.

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