I fine-tuned an open model to be the front desk at my friend's nail studio

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This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Meet Sugar Two screens. https://sugar-nails-nine.vercel.app https://youtu.be/ZyzuW1q0ZAE?si=SgPEC1N9pV0yKqDI https://github.com/comzzy/sugar-frontdesk Sugar doesn't need a chatbot that sounds smart. She needs one that gets the order right: the correct service, the correct price, and the correct time, in the way her customers actually talk, which is often Pidgin. A general model couldn't do that well. When I tested base Qwen3-8B on her menu, it made up prices, forgot to ask about allergies, and sounded nothing like

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