Desktop Side Panel
Overview
Enhance your conversations, get creative ideas, and summarize messages directly in Viber Desktop with the built-in ChatGPT side panel.
You can chat with ChatGPT side-by-side with your conversations without leaving the app, ask for reply suggestions, and quickly insert AI responses right into your chats.
To learn more about the different ChatGPT features available in Viber, please read more here.
Open or hide the ChatGPT side panel
The side panel on desktop is open by default. You can easily hide or open it at any time:
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Hide the panel: Click on the ChatGPT button in the top window bar next to your settings
- Open the panel: Click on the ChatGPT button again. Your active chat will expand to fill the screen
Notes
- If you hide the panel while ChatGPT is generating a response, the process will continue in the background
- Opening Chat info
temporarily replaces the side panel. Closing it will bring the side panel back automatically
Resize the side panel
Click and drag the left edge of the side panel to make it wider or narrower. Your preferred width stays saved for your session.
Chat with ChatGPT in the side panel
- Open Viber on your desktop
- Click on the ChatGPT button in the top window bar if the panel is not already open
- Type a prompt into the Ask ChatGPT box at the bottom of the panel, or click one of the suggested prompts
- Press Enter on your keyboard to send (use Shift + Enter to add a new line)
Note
The side panel currently supports text and emojis.
Ask ChatGPT about a specific message
- Open Viber on your desktop
- Open your desired chat
- Right-click your desired message
- Hover over ChatGPT
- Click Ask privately to send to your personal conversation with ChatGPT or click Ask in this chat to share with the people you’re talking to
Note
Viber doesn’t send OpenAI the entirety of your conversations - only the specific messages you decide to share.
You can ask ChatGPT to explain a message:
- Open Viber on your desktop
- Select your desired chat
- Hover your mouse over any sent or received message in the chat
- Click on the + Ask ChatGPT button that appears above the message to get an instant explanation of the message