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Show HN: YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI

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Re: Show HN: YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI

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Post by ilovepuppies »

Very cool. I use a custom local UI as well, based on a fork of a similar project called ChatPad (https://github.com/deiucanta/chatpad). That also uses Mantine UI, and lets you create and save prompts just like chats. Data is stored locally using indexdb. I embedded it in an electron app, which lets me run it from my dock rather than a terminal. But what's missing is speech-to-text, so it's great to see this project has that.

There are a few drawbacks to local, I've discovered. For example I doubt the new plugins can be extended to beyond ChatGPT's web UI. Also, it doesn't stream response tokens as they're generated, which is a pain. I haven't looked into whether OpenAPI let you do that though.

Nice work!

Re: Show HN: YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI

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Post by Karunamon »

I absolutely love this! The UI is nice and responsive and this is the first chatGPT UI that has voice recognition that works outside of chrome!

I kind of want to throw this up on a server for my housemates to use, I am currently the only person with a openai account, so I would like the ability to embed my API key. Minor feature request :-)

Re: Show HN: YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI

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Post by ilovepuppies »

danielbln wrote: post #59
smusamashah wrote: post #54

This is fast. And talking to it is a nice touch. Consider adding text to speech too :) One feature I am missing from all these front ends is the ability to edit your text and generate new response from that point. Official chat gpt UI is the only one that seems to do that.

Chat-with-gpt has that, we use it in our org as an alternative chatgpt Interface: https://github.com/cogentapps/chat-with-gpt

I've never seen this one before. It has several features I've been looking for. Has it been working well for your organization?

Re: Show HN: YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI

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Post by syrrim »

sebzim4500 wrote: post #41
kulikalov wrote: post #29

Isn’t GPT a trademark owned by OpenAI? Is it legal to use it?

Looks like they've recently applied for the trademark but they haven't got it yet. I have no idea if they will get it or not, it is just an acronym but they did come up with it.

They did seemingly position it as a generic name for this style of AI model, and other people have been using it in that fashion (eg "gpt-j"). It's usually recommended to contrast a brand name for your product with its generic name, so that the two don't become confused. Hence why scrabble is always subtitled "crossword game".

Re: Show HN: YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI

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Post by dingclancy »

It would be great if I can just enter "space" in the app and it just lets me talk to it. Keyboard shortcuts!

BTW I have a lot of these ChatGPT UI apps installed, mostly free and open-source. Perhaps this is really the era of going back to just talking to a chat interface like the old times.

Re: Show HN: YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI

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Post by uh_uh »

xupybd wrote: post #69
johnchristopher wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks but FWIW, I'd also be interested in why it doesn't build. Shouldn't yarn/npm/gulp/whatever manage dependencies ?

I've not found a dependency manager that works reliably across multiple operating systems and operating system versions.

I did, just not in the JavaScript ecosystem.
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