In the current boom in AI-based services, Poe is the most interesting proposition because instead of adding another generative model to the list, it groups together the most interesting possibilities into a single service application. After spending several months in closed beta, Quora decided to jump into open beta in early February, albeit only for iOS users. But that was temporary, as in mid-March it also became available through the web, in addition to adding new chatbots and starting to offer a payment plan that gives better access to GPT-4 and Claude+.

Currently, Poe provides access to Sage, GPT-4, Claude+, Claude-instant, ChatGPT and DragonFly bots, a fairly wide selection (many will miss the Bing chatbot, but Microsoft probably does not allow its inclusion in third-party services) and this is, for example, very practical if we want to ask the same question to different models and compare the answers they give. offer to each of them. This will help us over time to know which of them we should turn to for each type of doubt and query.

In this way, despite not having its own model, Quora has managed to make Poea the preferred choice for many users, because although everything it offers is also available on other platforms, both the selection of chatbots and the very clean interface and well thought out to make using the service quite convenient, either through its application or directly from the web interface.

The claim that it does not have its own chatbots is no longer quite correct. It is true that it continues to use third-party models, but after the last update now Poe allows us to create and share our own chatbots. And how is it done? Well, it’s really simple. We’ll just have to choose the model we want to use and then specify the properties we want the answers it provides to have. This way, every time you use the chatbot, the input prompt will be combined with these indications.

To make it clearer, imagine you want a chatbot that answers questions as if we were in the golden age. Its configuration could be something like this:

After setting up and creating a new chatbot, it will be added to the bar on the right. And of course you can create as many chatbots as you want.

Of course, keep in mind that any chatbots you create will appear in your user profile, so if you want to keep it private, you won’t be able to use this feature.

With the chatbot created, you will only have to enter your first question and, as you will be able to verify, the answer will adapt to the instructions you set when creating it: