Built with @huy

@huy (github) has been helping us shape AskBox with their feedback. Here are the 18 releases we have launched thanks to them.

# February 22, 2025

We fixed a bug where math formulas are not rendered correctly 🧮

Thanks to @kha (Pro) for reporting the issue and @huy (Pro / Aki) for the fix suggestion 🙇

# January 30, 2025

Companion prompt just has a complete revamp 💫 We now have a dedicated panel where you can manage your companion's prompts, create new ones with guides, or choose from a library of curated prompts.

Thanks @hai for the suggestion from a long time ago, and @huy for taking part in our building of this most recently 🙇

# January 2, 2025

Typeface is now a choice ✍️ In addition to iA Writer, AskBox now has Lato, Inter, and an option to use your familiar system typeface.

Thanks @huy (Pro) for suggesting the feature 🙇

# January 1, 2025

Hello to DeepSeek V3 🐳 Despite being trained using significantly less resources, benchmark tests showed it outperformed Llama 3.1 while matching GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Sometimes, however, it may say it's ChatGPT though.

Thanks @huy (Pro) for suggesting the model 🙇

# December 8, 2024

Line breaks are back in user messages 🪜 This was a minor but annoying bug for a while, sorry!

Thanks @huy, @chinh, and @hai for reporting the issue 🙇

# December 7, 2024

Chat is now available immediately right after load 🐰 Ask Box always take less than 1 second to load, but previously there was a 2-second warming up right after, where typing might be laggy. With multi-threading magic, we moved the warm-up to other place, so now the app is fully interactive as soon as you see it!

This does not only improve the initial experience but also the smoothness of every question! Now all heavy processing is done behind the scene, leaving the main thread fully for maximum animation frames 💨

Thanks @huy for reporting the issue and taking part in the build discussion 🙇

# November 25, 2024

Users' messages are no longer went through Markdown 📝 This should make it more predictable, as our users often don't format their messages strictly like AI always does.

Thanks @chinh (Pro) and @huy (Pro) for reporting the issue 🙇

# November 24, 2024

We added styles for quotes now ✍️ This is applied for both in-line and block quotes.

Thanks @huy for reporting the issue 🙇

# November 18, 2024

We fixed a bug where companions went to retirement unexpectedly 🧓 Worry not that no companions are lost! This is a linking issue, meaning that we only lost their name in rare cases, but they are still there. Rare cases include asking a question without making changes to any companion yet.

Our thanks to @huy for not only reporting the issue but also working with us to fix it.

# November 17, 2024

Messages now include fallback model 🔒 Fallback model is what actually responded when your plan does not include the requested model. For example, if you ask for "GPT 4o" without being a Pro user, you will see a warning that "GPT 4o mini" was used.

Our thanks to @chinh (Pro user) and @huy for reporting the issue 🙇

# November 14, 2024

Horizontal rule is better styled now 📏 Previously it was one of the missing Markdown elements that still used the default browser styles.

Our thanks to @huy for reporting the issue 🙇

# October 15, 2024

We fix an issue where some text are incorrectly recognised at math expressions 🐛 This was because we support the $...$ syntax for inline math. This is too easy to have false positive. Now we only support $$...$$ and $...$ syntaxes.

Our thanks to @huy for reporting the issue timely 🙇

# September 29, 2024

We fixed a bug where messages may take a while to show up 🍟 Now your message should be visible as soon as you press Enter.

Our thanks to @kha and @huy for reporting the issue, with @huy also took part in the build discussion 🙇

# September 28, 2024

We fixes all visual issues from our last release 🐞 There was a bug from our side that caused them yesterday, sorry.

Our thanks to @huy or not only reporting the issue but also helping us with the fix 🙇

# September 24, 2024

We brought back the colours of companions 😶 Recently, we ~~had a bug~~ let them go to the beach too much and their skins are burned. After we ~~fixed the bug~~ let them rest, they are back with their good old selves.

My apology to @hai and @huy who were most impacted by this 🙇

# August 14, 2024

We now support GitHub Flavoured Markdown 🍨 This includes Tables, Strikethrough, Task list items, and more.

This is requested most recently by @huy, so thank you 🙇

# August 11, 2024

Say goodbye to lagging and frame drops 🏎️ We've updated our streaming to minimise CPU usage, with zero compromise on the interface, eliminate any chance of UI freezes. This is most visible when the AI assistants generate huge chunk of code, so try it out ✨

This is requested most enthusiastically by @khoa, @huy, and @chinh, with a special shout-out to @huy for collaborating with us, thank you 🙇