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Show HN: Avatar-cursor – an AI shop assistant

Elias Schwalme released Avatar-cursor, an AI shop assistant that uses an animated avatar to guide users through e-commerce interactions. The open-source tool, demonstrated in a GIF on GitHub, aims to enhance online shopping with conversational AI.

read1 min views18 publishedJul 25, 2026
Show HN: Avatar-cursor – an AI shop assistant
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[Hacker News AI](https://news.ycombinator.com)Article URL: [https://github.com/eliasschwalme/avatar-cursor/blob/main/demo.gif](https://github.com/eliasschwalme/avatar-cursor/blob/main/demo.gif)

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049186](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049186)

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machinebrief.com — original article OpenAI disables internet access during model training while Anthropic issues another mea culpa The New Norm: AI Discovers Disastrous Security Hole In 70% Of The World’s Websites Red-team report found OpenAI utterly failed to monitor its agents during Hugging Face attack
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