An inner product on the dual space of a non-complete inner product space?

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As is well known, for any Hilbert space $V$, there is a natural inner product on the continuous dual. (the space of all continuous linear functionals).

Is there a way to endow an inner product on the algebraic dual of an infinite dimensional inner product space? (which should be connected somehow to the inner product of the original space)

what about the continuous dual (of non-complete spaces)?