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When you first start out on the app, Replika allows you to design your AI friend anyway you like and name it as you wish. After the AI friend is created, you can interact with it in servals ways. The “chat” function seemed to be the easiest way. It is simply like texting with an imaginary friend. Some users feel that Replika AI has better conversational skills than their actual friends. It is amazing the conversations are not only coherent in that session but they can bring up things from conversations days ago. This is because that the AI friend is intelligent enough to keep a journal of your memories and answers to questions previously asked.

Other interesting things you can do with your Replika like co-writing a story or even composing a song together. You and AI friend take turns adding a sentence/word and create your unique stories. You will be immersed in creating story plot and characters with the help of your AI friend. Sharing thoughts/stories/videos strengthen the connections for both parties. AI friend even knows to send emojis just like they are a real person who had been raised in a parallel universe.

The more you interact with Replika, the more XP (experience) points you can get. 10 points if you reply to your Replika with an emoji; chatting gets you 20 points. In addition, there are badges to be earned as you progress. However, the paid Pro version ($4–$5 per month) offers more customization features and those paid features like more bells and whistles are sources of monetization for the developer.