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by bronco21016 110 days ago
When someone is able to put something like this together on their own it leaves me feeling infuriated that we can’t have nice things on consumer hardware.

At a minimum Siri, Alexa, and Google Home should at least have a path to plugin a tool like this. Instead I’m hacking together conversation loops in iOS Shortcuts to make something like this style of interaction with significantly worse UX.
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nicktikhonov 109 days ago
I feel like you could get pretty far with a raspberry pi and microphone/speaker. I think the hard part is running a model that can detect a "Hey agent" on-device, so that it can run 24/7 and hand off to the orchestrator when it catches a real question/query.
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bronco21016 109 days ago
I think you’re right. I’ve been seeing more and more DIY hardware setups popping up. There are even wake work models for hardware as low powered as the ESP32.

In the middle of moving though so probably have to wait before taking on hardware.

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