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Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by brtkwr »

ssl-3 wrote: post #272
kaoD wrote: post #253

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To give a different perspective: archival is important. If nobody does this job, generational knowledge is lost at some point. I talked plenty with my grandpa, but I'm sure he didn't even tell me 20% of his life. And my other grandpa died when I was still a kid, so I didn't even get to have adult conversations with him. Imagine making this available to your grandgrandgrandson.

Yeah, but you're kaoD. You're a bonafide person. You should talk with other people; it's good. (We're chatting right now.) That's quite different from chatting with a bot that pretends to be human. (Do you want to chat with my bot?)

Why does it have to be black and white? Why can't a bot do the exploration and notetaking along with people in the channel?

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by lexandstuff »

mx_03 wrote: post #250
lexandstuff wrote: post #116

I still use it and find it helpful. My OpenClaw instance uses an Obsidian project as its memory. Mainly, it's just my main day-to-day LLM that I access via WhatsApp, but instead of the memory being locked away with a specific vendor, it's stored in version control that I can read and edit. That reason alone makes it compelling to me. When a better LLM comes along, I can just switch, and my memory and system prompts c…

I find it funny you call it an Obsidian project. It is just folders and MD files. You are not even locked-in with Obsidian. Or maybe OpenClaw is reading the graph view?

Yeah, not locked in with Obsidian.

I just use it as a Markdown viewer/editor, and it handles updating links across notes when a file is renamed. There are some handy conventions that Obsidian encourages, like Daily Notes, templates and linking across notes, enough to call it an Obsidian project, but yeah - it's just markdown. I don't even use the [[Wiki-links]] style that it uses by default.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by wuschel »

lexandstuff wrote: post #116

I still use it and find it helpful. My OpenClaw instance uses an Obsidian project as its memory. Mainly, it's just my main day-to-day LLM that I access via WhatsApp, but instead of the memory being locked away with a specific vendor, it's stored in version control that I can read and edit. That reason alone makes it compelling to me. When a better LLM comes along, I can just switch, and my memory and system prompts c…

Hi,

You mentioned switching out LLM backends. Would you think that lesser models e.g. one of the recent Qwen variants would work for your use case?

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by ssl-3 »

brtkwr wrote: post #321
ssl-3 wrote: post #272

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, but you're kaoD. You're a bonafide person. You should talk with other people; it's good. (We're chatting right now.) That's quite different from chatting with a bot that pretends to be human. (Do you want to chat with my bot?)

Why does it have to be black and white? Why can't a bot do the exploration and notetaking along with people in the channel?

That's not how I interpreted it as being in this instance, but it could certainly be that way.

I guess that'd be like keeping all correspondence in a shoe box (to be reviewed later -- or maybe never), or maybe the automated recording of my phone calls with others (which is completely legal where I am; I don't even have to tell them).

And I suppose whether I felt that would be creepy or not depends a lot upon intent, and consent.

If the intent were pure and good, and the consent both informed and granted, then I'd have no problem with any of this at all -- whether a shoebox, a tape recorder, or a bot is involved in taking the notes.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by azmz »

lxgr wrote: post #15

I've been playing around with it. The only two real use cases I have for it for now are entertaining me on long flights where I have messaging-only Wi-Fi and sending me a personalized "morning brief". I suppose it could be a lot more useful if I actually gave it access to any of my personal data (it lives in a heavily resource-limited container), but there's absolutely no way I'm letting that hot mess of a walking, t…

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Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by otabdeveloper4 »

utkarsh_apoorva wrote: post #266

I disagree with practically every take here, and likely will get hate for this message. Personally it has been a huge unlock and here are some specific use cases. 1.Context engineering for “any task”: my claw agents debate with me, and write me files to be picked up by Claude code or Claude cowork to write code/build presentations. 2. Discovering this page: my personal newsfeed that took me 10 mins to setup. Never ha…

> my claw agents debate with me

I don't really want an imaginary friend. (Or intrusive thoughts either.)

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by brtkwr »

ssl-3 wrote: post #325
brtkwr wrote: post #321

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why does it have to be black and white? Why can't a bot do the exploration and notetaking along with people in the channel?

That's not how I interpreted it as being in this instance, but it could certainly be that way. I guess that'd be like keeping all correspondence in a shoe box (to be reviewed later -- or maybe never), or maybe the automated recording of my phone calls with others (which is completely legal where I am; I don't even have to tell them). And I suppose whether I felt that would be creepy or not depends a lot upon intent,…

I called my parents, told them about the idea, they never even had Telegram before we started this project but they especially joined when they learnt that I was trying to build a family history. They are native Nepalese speakers therefore the system promptensured that the bot always responds to their questions and answers in Nepalese.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by eterm »

brtkwr wrote: post #319
eterm wrote: post #235

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am weirded out but this, I find it horrific, like some kind of mind zombie, leeching humanity from your family members. Someone somewhere is thinking they're connecting with you and sharing their humanity but they're just shoveling their soul into a machine that is "meticulously documenting" them. Sorry, but ick.

Btw my family know they are talking to the bot and they know that the bot is taking notes for our benefit. And I am in the channel and I enjoy reading those stories myself and would have never thought to ask those questions myself. Sometimes I ask the follow up questions myself too...

Well that makes it a lot less bad, it sounded from your post like it messages on your behalf and as you.

If it identifies as a bot then I find it a lot less objectionable.

I still wouldn't do it myself, but I can put the pitchfork down.

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