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Re: Show HN: I made an app to use local AI as daily driver

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> Thanks to the amazing work of @ggerganov on llama.cpp which made this possible. If there is anything that you wish to exist in an ideal local AI app, I'd love to hear about it.

The app looks great! Likewise, if you have any requests or ideas for improving llama.cpp, please don't hesitate to open an issue / discussion in the repo

Re: Show HN: I made an app to use local AI as daily driver

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Can you speak more to this? I get useful output from LLMs all the time, but never use system prompts. What am I missing?

Sure, I use one system prompt template to make ChatGPT be more concise. Compare these two: https://sharegpt.com/c/fEZKMIy vs https://sharegpt.com/c/S2lyYON I use similar ones to get ChatGPT to be more thorough or diligent as well. From my limited experience with local models, this type of system prompting is even more important than with ChatGPT 4.

Is there a difference in using a system prompt and just pasting the "system prompt" part at the beginning of your message?

Re: Show HN: I made an app to use local AI as daily driver

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> Thanks to the amazing work of @ggerganov on llama.cpp which made this possible. If there is anything that you wish to exist in an ideal local AI app, I'd love to hear about it. The app looks great! Likewise, if you have any requests or ideas for improving llama.cpp, please don't hesitate to open an issue / discussion in the repo

Did not expect to see the Georgi Gerganov here :) How is GGML going?

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Re: Show HN: I made an app to use local AI as daily driver

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Since I couldn't find it in your list, I'd like to plug my own macOS (and iOS) app: Private LLM. Unlike almost every other app in the space, it isn't based on llama.cpp (we use mlc-llm) or naive RTN quantized models (we use OmniQuant). Also, the app has deep integrations with macOS and iOS (Shortcuts, Siri, macOS Services, etc). Incidentally, it currently runs Mixtral 8x7B Instruct[2] and Mistral[3] models faster tha…

What's the performance like in tokens/s?

You can see ms/token in a tiny font on the top of the screen, once the text generation completes in both the videos I'd linked to. Performance will vary by machine. On my 64GB M2 Mac Studio Max, I get ~47 tokens/s (21.06ms/token) with Mistral Instruct v0.2 and ~33 tokens/s (30.14ms/token) with Mixtral Instruct v0.1.

Re: Show HN: I made an app to use local AI as daily driver

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> Thanks to the amazing work of @ggerganov on llama.cpp which made this possible. If there is anything that you wish to exist in an ideal local AI app, I'd love to hear about it. The app looks great! Likewise, if you have any requests or ideas for improving llama.cpp, please don't hesitate to open an issue / discussion in the repo

Oh wow it's the goat himself, love how your work has democratized AI. Thanks so much for the encouragement. I'm mostly a UI/app engineer, total beginner when it comes to llama.cpp, would love to learn more and help along the way.

Re: Show HN: I made an app to use local AI as daily driver

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Yes it would be the next big focus on this. Personal data connectivity is what I see where local AI would excel - despite model power differences.

I have doubts about that. Most personal data actually lives in the cloud these days. If you need your Gmail emails, you'll need to use their API which is guarded behind $50k certification fee or so. I think there is a simpler version for personal use, but you still need to get the API key. Who's going to teach their mom about API keys? So I think for a lot of these data sources you'll end up with enterprise AIs integ…

Seconding a sibling question: What $50k API fee? To access your gmail? I've been using gmail since 2008 or so without ever touching their web/app interface or getting an API key. You just use it as an IMAP server.

Re: Show HN: I made an app to use local AI as daily driver

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I have doubts about that. Most personal data actually lives in the cloud these days. If you need your Gmail emails, you'll need to use their API which is guarded behind $50k certification fee or so. I think there is a simpler version for personal use, but you still need to get the API key. Who's going to teach their mom about API keys? So I think for a lot of these data sources you'll end up with enterprise AIs integ…

I think this is a good take. While there's big enough niche for personal data locally, I'd love if there's a way to solve for email/cloud data requiring API keys.

Ideally, though, a sufficiently smart LLM shouldn't need API access. It could navigate to your social media login page, supply your credentials, and scrape what it sees. Better yet, it should just reverse-engineer the API ;)

Re: Show HN: I made an app to use local AI as daily driver

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Sadly I can't try this because I'm on Windows or Linux. Was testing apps like this if anyone is interested: Best / Easy to use: - https://lmstudio.ai - https://msty.app - https://jan.ai More complex / Unpolished UI: - https://gpt4all.io - https://pinokio.computer - https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai-on-rtx/chat-with-rtx-generat... - https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp Misc: - https://faraday.dev (AI Characters): No U…

Khoj was one of the first 'low-touch' solutions out there I think. It's ok, but still under active development, like all of them really.

https://khoj.dev/

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