marioskales

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   Show HN: Skales – I built a desktop AI agent a 6-year-old can use(github.com)

   12 points by marioskales 6mo ago|6 comments
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   by marioskales 7mo ago

   Thank you - the BSL-1.1 decision was exactly about sustainability. I want Skales to stay free for personal use forever, but I also don't want a big company to fork and rebrand it overnight. v5.5 just shipped today with an approval syst
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   by marioskales 7mo ago

   Update: v5.5 shipped today with approval system (AI asks before destructive actions), full screen reader accessibility, and security fixes. Also launched on Product Hunt today: https://www.producthunt.com/products/skale
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   by marioskales 7mo ago

   You're spot on, the default system prompts were actually one of the things I spent the most time on. Skales ships with 5 personas (Entrepreneur, Coder, Family, Student, Creative) and each one has a carefully tuned system prompt so the
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   by marioskales 7mo ago

   Added a demo video showing the desktop buddy in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fXGsQGyxCU
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   by marioskales 7mo ago

   Great question! Multi-agent group chat (3-5 AI personas discussing a topic) works well - no latency issues and my main PC only has 8gb of ram, each round is one API call per participant, so latency depends mostly on your chosen model and pr
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   Show HN: Skales – Local AI agent desktop app (.exe/.dmg, 300MB idle RAM)

   2 points by marioskales 7mo ago|6 comments