SmartHopper 0.4.0-alpha: Enhanced Chat Experience & Fixed JSON Processing

[marc-romu]

This alpha release brings a more polished chat interface and improved AI response handling, making your interactions with SmartHopper more intuitive and reliable.

💬 Enhanced Chat Experience

• Added a new AI-generated chat greeting
• Added a loading animation while generating the greeting
• System prompt collapsed by default

🔄 Fixed JSON processing

• Enhanced JSON handling in OpenAI provider for more reliable responses
• Improved data extraction from DeepSeek provider responses
• Better cleanup of AI reasoning text in data-processing AI tools

🛠️ Technical Requirements

• Rhino 8.19 or above is required
• Windows 10/11 (MacOS has not been tested)
• Valid API keys for MistralAI, OpenAI or DeepSeek

⚠️ Important Notes

• This is an alpha release with some features still unstable or subject to change
• API keys are required, and usage costs apply based on your provider
• Documentation is currently under development

🤝 We Value Your Feedback!

Help shape SmartHopper's future by:

• Sharing your experiences with the new features
• Suggesting improvements via our discussion
• Telling us what AI capabilities would help your workflow most

We hope you enjoy these new features and improvements!

Happy designing! 🎨

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What's Changed

• feat(chat): enhance chat greeting by @marc-romu in feat(chat): enhance chat greeting #255
• feat(ci): add milestone management workflow and update release process by @marc-romu in feat(ci): add milestone management workflow and update release process #258
• fix(aitools): correct OpenAI integration in text-list-generation and other small fixes in AITools by @marc-romu in fix(aitools): correct OpenAI integration in text-list-generation and other small fixes in AITools #264

Full Changelog: 0.3.6-alpha...0.4.0-alpha

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