{"slug": "show-hn-avatar-cursor-an-ai-shop-assistant", "title": "Show HN: Avatar-cursor – an AI shop assistant", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "# Show HN: Avatar-cursor – an AI shop assistant\n\nBy eschwalmeSource:\n\n[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)\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049186](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049186)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-avatar-cursor-an-ai-shop-assistant", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/show-hn-avatar-cursor-an-ai-shop-assistant-k1ht", "published_at": "2026-07-25 16:50:27+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-25 18:27:43.813962+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-tools", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Elias Schwalme", "Avatar-cursor", "GitHub"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-avatar-cursor-an-ai-shop-assistant", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-avatar-cursor-an-ai-shop-assistant.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-avatar-cursor-an-ai-shop-assistant.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-avatar-cursor-an-ai-shop-assistant.jsonld"}}