Every time I see these things, they look cool as hell, I get excited, then I try to get them working on my gaming PC (that has the GPU), I spend 1-2h fighting with python and give up. Today's issue is that my python version is 3.12 instead of =3.9. Installing python 3.11 from the official website does nothing, I give up. It's a shame that the amazing work done by people like the OP gets underused because of this mess…
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> Sadly it appears that people in the LLM space This seems to be somewhat of a Python side-effect, same goes for almost any Python projects thrown together by people who hasn't spent 10% of their life fighting dependency management in Python. But agree with uv being the best way. I'm not a "real" Python programmer, similar boat to parent that I just end up running a bunch of Python projects for various ML things, and…
There's been a movement away from requirements.txt towards pyproject.toml. And commands like "uv add" and "uv install" take most of the pain of initializing and maintaining those dependencies.
I tried to figure out why anyone would use pyproject.toml over requirements.txt, granted they're just installing typical dependencies and didn't come up with any good answer. Personally I haven't had any issues with requirements.txt, so not sure what pyproject.toml would solve. I guess I'll change when/if I hit some bump in the road.
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#213Every time I see these things, they look cool as hell, I get excited, then I try to get them working on my gaming PC (that has the GPU), I spend 1-2h fighting with python and give up. Today's issue is that my python version is 3.12 instead of =3.9. Installing python 3.11 from the official website does nothing, I give up. It's a shame that the amazing work done by people like the OP gets underused because of this mess…
Let me introduce you to the beautiful world of virtual environments. They save you the headache of getting a full installation to run, especially when using Windows. I prefer miniconda, but venv also does the job.
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Let me introduce you to the beautiful world of virtual environments. They save you the headache of getting a full installation to run, especially when using Windows. I prefer miniconda, but venv also does the job.
Virtual environments with venv don't answer the python version problem unless you throw another tool into the mix.
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I want that for privacy reasons and for resource reasons. And having this as a small hardware device should not add relevant latency to it.
Privacy isn't a concern when everything is local
Malware, bugs etc can happen.
And I also might not want to disable it for every guest either.
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#216Every time I see these things, they look cool as hell, I get excited, then I try to get them working on my gaming PC (that has the GPU), I spend 1-2h fighting with python and give up. Today's issue is that my python version is 3.12 instead of =3.9. Installing python 3.11 from the official website does nothing, I give up. It's a shame that the amazing work done by people like the OP gets underused because of this mess…
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Read this if you haven’t already: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1 That’s a much more serious anxiety trigger for me.
wow that was incredible. thank you for sharing it. why does it cause you anxiety?
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Privacy isn't a concern when everything is local
Yes it is. Malware, bugs etc can happen. And I also might not want to disable it for every guest either.
* unless you put the AI on a robot body, but that's then your own new and exciting problem.
Re: Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency
#219Every time I see these things, they look cool as hell, I get excited, then I try to get them working on my gaming PC (that has the GPU), I spend 1-2h fighting with python and give up. Today's issue is that my python version is 3.12 instead of =3.9. Installing python 3.11 from the official website does nothing, I give up. It's a shame that the amazing work done by people like the OP gets underused because of this mess…
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#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
Privacy isn't a concern when everything is local
Yes it is. Malware, bugs etc can happen. And I also might not want to disable it for every guest either.