I run one. I built an iMessage-like frontend to it using plain JS and a Python websocket backend. I mostly just use it for curiosity and playing with different prompts. I only have 16GB of RAM to dedicate to it, so I use an 8B parameter model which is enough for fun and chitchat, but I don't find it good enough to replace ChatGPT. https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

You can run the likes of GPT4All now, you can even use it to query local factual documents and source material, rather than make stuff up: https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all. Source: 9 months ago

Agreed. Gpt4all[1] offers a similar 'simple setup' but with application exe downloads, but is arguably more like open core because the gpt4all makers (nomic?) want to sell you the vector database addon stuff on top. [1]https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all I like this one because it feels more private / is not being pushed by a company that can do a rug pull. This... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

For what it's worth, I haven't tried them yet, but there are also open-source large-language models and text-to-speech models. Source: 11 months ago

Neat! I've been working on Khoj, which does something analogous. Khoj works best with natural language documents, so it's good with documentation (i.e., READMEs), not so much with code. First I've heard of GPT4All; this is super awesome. Source: 11 months ago

It's indeed suspicious. You're sending your voice samples, your various services accounts, your location and more private data to some proprietary black box in some public cloud. Sorry, but this is a privacy nightmare. It should be open source and self-hosted like Mycroft (https://mycroft.ai) or Leon (https://getleon.ai) to be trustworthy. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

I was expecting this to be about Mycroft the AI assistant ( https://mycroft.ai/ ). - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

But I would recommend writing some proper glue logic in Python and use the socket function for communication. But if you really want to get rid of Alexa, it's probably worth it to set up mycroft.ai or another open source assistant. Source: 11 months ago

Https://mycroft.ai/ is a sophisticated open source replacement for Siri/Alexa … you can buy their premade hardware version for $399. Source: 11 months ago

To add home automation, consider something like Mycroft (https://mycroft.ai/). Source: 12 months ago