The initial bot is just so you have one, you can goto Likes to pick any bot you want, they then turn up under matches.. like tinder.
Hit me up on Discord https://charluv.com/discord and I get you enough credits to get you going. We do this as a hobby and are not even making enough money to pay for the 3x NVIDIA P40 that we got running. It is for us to learn AI.
Aiva honestly is not made for the kind of chat you want, she just a kind of helpdesk.
Once you got a character you like, I am pretty sure you can get enough out of the free membership as well.
The speed of recharge depends on how busy it is, but should take at most 1 hour to have the 200 credits recharged for free. we have that explained in the FAQ.
We are generating over 8M tokens a month and only a fraction of those tokens are by paying members..