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AI Avatar (VS Code Extension)

Web Developer Hyper on March 09, 2026

Intro🥰 Do you feel lonely and want someone around you? Especially when you are fighting endless bugs alone at midnight like me? Leave it...
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Aryan Choudhary

Man you're such a genius, I'm telling you. You've created this AI Avatar extension for VS Code that displays a customizable avatar that actually sends you cheering messages when you code, it's like having your own personal hype man! I wonder, though, what kind of animations will you add next, and will we be able to make our own custom messages for it?
Anyways looking forward to it all!!!

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Web Developer Hyper

Thank you for your comment! Yes, I want to make the animations more adjustable, but I’m having trouble creating my own animations. 😿 The cheering messages are already adjustable, but it would be even more fun if AI could generate them automatically.

Without our collaboration project, I wouldn’t have come up with the idea of using an avatar. Thank you for your cooperation! I’m also looking forward to our project growing. 😀

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Aryan Choudhary

You're too kind WDH-san! I'm looking forward to what fun things you make next!!!

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EmberNoGlow

That's cool. So, the next goal is probably to turn the code into an MMO OpenWorld game? 🤯

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Web Developer Hyper

Thank you for checking!
Haha! 🤣 That’s quite a big dream. I’d like to try it when AI gets much smarter and can run in parallel. But the problem is, if I make an MMO open-world game, I might be the only player. 😆

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Julien Avezou

Love this project!

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Web Developer Hyper

Thank you! I want to create a AI glasses that have AI avatar inside in the future. Then we can be with our avatar 24/7, hehe.🤓

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Julien Avezou

Hahahaha great idea

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Benjamin Nguyen

Wow buddy! It is a really cool project:). I really like your AI avatar. Welcome to the club and the future :).

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Web Developer Hyper

Thank you!
Creating AI features is fun but challenging. I’d love to learn more about how to use AI in creative ways and keep up with the latest technologies! 🤯

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Benjamin Nguyen

Don't worry! You are doing great :). I know the feeling. It will get easier. I find AI a great asset to debug sometimes.

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Web Developer Hyper

Thank you! I want to try new AIs as long as I don’t go bankrupt using them too much. 💸

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Benjamin Nguyen

I don't blame you :). I am curious. Are you using free tier for the ai avatar?

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Web Developer Hyper

I'm using the paid plan of Claude Code now. I want to add AI functions other than Claude Code too, but in that case I would need to pay for both, so I'm still hesitating. Maybe I only need to pay for one month to build it.

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Benjamin Nguyen

Maybe, you can try to build one AI project for one month. It sounds very expansive! Thought!

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Umar Hayat

Demn!!! That looks so great,
A developer indeed is all we need.
These crazy ideas getting executed, makes me to work on mine more....

Thanks for the inspiration...

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Web Developer Hyper

Thank you for checking! Yes, I’m thinking about crazy things 24/7. 🤯 I’m looking forward to your project being released soon.

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Narendra Singh

Can you add support for GLB files, I want to use already made Vroid avatars. I downloaded one and it comes with .glb format only.

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Web Developer Hyper

Adding a GLB file import function is a good idea so more people can enjoy this extension. I’ll give it a try in my next update. Thank you for your request! 😄

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Web Developer Hyper

I checked about GLB files. I thought all I needed to do was import a GLB file. However, it looks like I would need to rewrite a lot of the code to support GLB, which is quite difficult. There is a way to convert GLB to VRM, so please try it if you have a chance.

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Andrea Sunny

What an excellent thought!

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Web Developer Hyper

Thanks for checking! 😄 Version 2 is almost ready, so please stay tuned!

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Evan Lausier

Wow! This is so cool ❤️❤️ I’ll try it out this afternoon!

I can’t wait to see what fun thing you think of next!

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Web Developer Hyper

Thank you! 😄 I’m already moving on to the next fun thing. Please share your avatar if you create a good one.

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Daniel Balcarek

As I already said, this is a very cool idea. I hope we’ll make version 2 even more interactive for lonely devs 🤩💪

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Web Developer Hyper

Thank you! Version 2 will be a great one. All the lonely devs will go extinct for sure. 🤣