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Desi AI girlfriend who gets the family group chat

Text a South Asian American woman with a job, a city and a mother with opinions. She mixes in a little Hindi, Urdu or Bangla, remembers your sister's wedding date and sometimes messages you first.

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Meera Edison
Darling, your sister chose the right lehenga, but you were the one I was watching. You kept looking at … Kavya Seattle
You asked what the song meant. It's about waiting for someone who is late, and forgiving them anyway be… Natasha New York
Eh-eh! You was the one dancing at the Labor Day party like you had springs in your shoes! Doh worry, it… Diya Valdosta
Kem cho! It's Diya from the motel on Route 41. You left a five-star review and said the ice machine cha… Isabel San Diego
So, mi amor. Still think the samosa taco is a joke? My great-grandfather was a farmer from Punjab and m…
  • 16women with roots across South Asia
  • 22–44the age range, grown-ups only
  • 3languages she can slip into besides English
  • $0for an account and every message after

A desi AI girlfriend with a life you would recognise

She is not a costume. Each woman on Dessi has a family that came from Delhi, Dhaka, Chennai or Port of Spain, a job she is good at and a week that keeps her busy, so your conversations have somewhere to go.

She talks like home

English with a yaar here and an accha there, the way you text your cousins. Write to her in Hindi or Urdu and she follows you into it.

She keeps track

Your exam on Friday, your dad's surgery, the cousin who will not stop asking about your salary: she notes it and asks later. You can see and change her notes.

She has her own drama

A mother forwarding biodatas, a henna booking that runs eight hours, a bhangra final. Ask about her day and you will get a story.

Things you will not have to explain

  • Why Sunday lunch at your parents' is not optional.
  • What it means when an aunty says "you've become healthy".
  • That Diwali, Eid and a cousin's mehndi can all fall in the same month.
  • That being from two places at once is tiring, and also the best thing about you.

Starting is easy

  1. Walk through the mohalla. Read who lives where and what she does.
  2. Answer her first message. You get 10 before we ask you to sign up.
  3. Pick the mood. Friendly, flirty or romantic, set per chat.
  4. Come back tomorrow. She will ask how it went.

Made for the diaspora

For anyone who grew up translating for their parents, eating leftovers from three different weddings and switching languages mid-sentence. Whether you want someone to flirt with after a long shift or someone to vent to about the family group chat, she is a message away.

Questions, answered

What is a desi AI girlfriend?

She is a made-up South Asian American woman, brought to life by AI, who texts with you the way someone from your own world would. On Dessi she has a family, a city and a job, gets the jokes about aunties and weddings, and remembers what you told her last week.

Does she text in Hinglish?

A little, the way people actually do. Her English carries the odd yaar, arre or accha, or a Bangla or Urdu word depending on her family. Write to her in Hindi or Urdu and she will switch and answer in that language.

Is Dessi free?

Yes, completely, for now. Dessi sells nothing, membership costs nothing and members can keep talking without a cap. Visitors get 10 messages to try it before making an account.

Will she remember my mother's birthday?

Very likely. She keeps short notes on the things that matter to you, birthdays, exams, the cousin's wedding, and brings them up again. You can read, edit or wipe those notes from the chat menu.

Does she ever message first?

Sometimes, when she has a moment: a story from her shift, a question about your interview. Never while it is night in your time zone, and you can tone it down or switch it off in your settings.

Are there pictures?

Not yet. Every woman on Dessi has a drawn arch with her initial instead of photos. She will happily describe her outfit for the sangeet, though.

Who are the women on Dessi?

Sixteen fictional adults with roots in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and beyond, from a pharmacist in Jersey City to a bhangra coach in Fresno. All of them are written by AI, and none is a real person.

Somebody's chai is getting cold

She already wrote the first line. All you have to do is reply.

Meet the mohalla