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They're "always" running, so they can notify you out of the blue, without you having to initiate a conversation. It's really nice UX to get a message from my as
by stavros 9mo ago
They're "always" running, so they can notify you out of the blue, without you having to initiate a conversation. It's really nice UX to get a message from my assistant saying "hey, it's time to leave for the gym, and don't forget the supermarket bag because you're picking up milk on the way back, as you've run out".
- dimitri-vs 9mo agoHow would it know you've ran out of milk?
- stavros 9mo agoI told it when I noticed. I made a little pendant with a mic I can speak into and it goes to the bot.
- LeafItAlone 9mo agoI would love to hear more about this!
- stavros 9mo agoI haven't written it up yet but the repo is here: It's just a MEMS mic, a battery, and an ESP32, very simple but it works amazingly well. I wrote a companion Android app for it and it works extremely reliably!
- liminal-dev 9mo agoAre you running NanoClaw or a different project?
- Barbing 9mo agoI really love that. Can't wait for your writeup!
- stavros 9mo agoThe pendant is almost ready, I'll write it up this week! Sneak peek: https://imgz.org/i6xDDz6x/ https://imgz.org/i6xDDz6x/
- imiric 9mo agoTurns out Humane was ahead of its time.
- brcmthrowaway 9mo agoHow do people afford this?
- netsharc 9mo agoHmm, Google Gemini has access to my Google Tasks and can set reminders. It's also asked me if I want it to check something at "tomorrow 9am", and when I said yes, it managed to do that.
- stavros 9mo agoYeah, that's kind of like it. Agents just have many many more integrations, so they can do many more things. For example, it knows all my preferences, and can search for flights and say things like "this one is more expensive, but skipping the morning wakeup is worth the $20".
- caminante 9mo agoBut have you had consistently good experience with Google Gemini and Google apps? Or read the mixed reviews? For me, Gemini has been hit or miss and somehow less useful than Assistant was 2+ years ago.
- netsharc 9mo agoThe coding assistant for VSCode is nuts (i.e. gets it wrong a lot, also one time it just got so confused). I have Gemini Pro for free for a year because I bought a Pixel phone, it answers very fast, so I like it. Let's see how I'll feel about shelling out real money when the subscription ends. But on the phone, I still use Assistant (and just have a shortcut to launch the webpage in my browser), because the phone was forcing Gemini, but after 5 minutes of usage I found it was slower for my usages (usually I just tell it to set an alarm and add a reminder/calendar event), and when I asked about my tasks, Gemini would get the task listing from Google Tasks, and keep it in its history... that'll pollute my chat history!
- caminante 9mo agoSorry to hear that. I've had a similar deal. "Free" means included, and we are the beta testers! In the last month, Gemini successfully persisted Google notes and calendar events. It also malfunctioned by adding these to chat context...(and not persisting to Google Calendar or Keep.) Same commands. Different outcomes. It's unusable.
- mpweiher 9mo agoDunno, my calendar reminds me "out of the blue", without me having to initiate a conversation, that it's time to leave for the gym, no "claw" or "ai" involved. I always have my backpack with me, so if I need milk I can pick it up on the way back. And I am pretty sure that I have to notice if I need milk myself. The tech sounds cool, but whenever I hear about actual applications, I don't see the point.
- dgellow 9mo agoEverything I’ve seen about it feels so over engineered
- stavros 9mo agoIf you don't have a need for a personal assistant, that's fine, not everyone does. That doesn't mean nobody does. The milk thing was just an example of a tool that can intelligently combine things for you, not a literal "it's a calendar with a milk function". This is a bit like "if I want to call my friends, I have a phone a home, why would I need a mobile?" which somewhat betrays a lack of imagination.
- olyjohn 9mo agoYou're just not providing any good examples of what I cant already do with current automation tools.
- neodymiumphish 9mo agoMy wife constantly asks me about adding books to her Kindle. I use Anna’s archive for this, but the process can be very annoying. I have to go to the site, search for the content. Filter by epub and English. Then download the content. Then send it to her Kindle email. My openclaw now searches for the relevant content upon her request, sends the URL to a Stacks docker instance, monitors the Stacks instance for when the download completes, grabs the resulting epub from a local file share, then sends it to her kindle email. She doesn’t even send me the request anymore; she sends them straight to the Discord bot. It also corrects our calendar every night. She often just through something on the calendar like “[son’s name] speech”, but we have speech appointments in either of two locations, and I have a strong preference for calendar items in the format “[person] - activity”. If she puts the city name with the speech appointments (“[son’s name] speech [town]”), openclaw reformats the title accordingly and adds the physical address of the speech therapy office we go to in that town. This means Apple Calendar sends us notifications when it’s time to leave, instead of just 30 mins prior. I have a few others as well, but those are real world examples. Maybe they don’t matter for your use case, but they’re good for mine.
- qudat 9mo agoI just tell CC to create a cron job systemd unit