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Personal Concierge Using OpenAI's ChatGPT via Telegram and Voice Messages

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Re: Personal Concierge Using OpenAI's ChatGPT via Telegram and Voice Messages

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Great work! Thanks for taking the time to build this and open sourcing it. For me, it scratches on a very real itch. I’ve toyed with the idea of a personal AI assistant to act as a second brain, and help me prioritize and remember things with human intuition (“you can’t afford to delay X, do X today and maybe reach out to Z to set the expectations for delaying Y?”).

To me, the greatest strength of LLMs is not their knowledge (which is prone to hallucination), but their ability to analyze ambiguous requests with ease and develop a sane action plan - much like a competent human.

One a side note: wouldn’t it be significantly cheaper and as effective to use ChatGPT 3.5 by default, and reserve GPT 4 for special tasks with explicit instruction (“Use GPT 4 to…”).

For most chats, GPT 4 would be incredibly wasteful (read: expensive).

Also - it would be very cool to experiment the use of GPT 3.5 and GPT 4 in the same conversation! GPT 3.5 could leverage the analysis of GPT 4 and act as the primary communication “chatbot” interface for addressing incremental requests.

Re: Personal Concierge Using OpenAI's ChatGPT via Telegram and Voice Messages

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Did something similar (without voice) that runs on an esp32. This way I don't need any server or keep my desktop machine running. Supports Telegram and Discord. https://github.com/floitsch/ai-projects/tree/main/chat

OP integrated LangChan and the ability to Google results (and a neat way to integrate more agents). That’s the main draw for me in their implementation.

Re: Personal Concierge Using OpenAI's ChatGPT via Telegram and Voice Messages

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I see my server has restarted a few times! I imagine it's folks here since I haven't shared Chat Bling elsewhere yet. Sorry to anyone who started generating images, but haven't received a response. The 'jobs' for images generations are stored entirely within memory, so a server restart will lose all of that. Going forward, I'll explore storing image jobs in redis or something, which will be more resilient to server c…

You could have a default "will be wiped after " policy / notification up front, plus an option to change this (in either direction, one way to "only store this in RAM not the DB, and wipe it as soon as I close this window - or maybe after an hour of inactivity", the other way to "please never delete (we reserve the right to delete anyway but will keep for at least Y days/months/whatever)". And also a "delete now" but…

Agreed, giving the user a choice would be best here. Something tells me most users would not change it from whatever the default is, but yeah still good to expose this as a setting which should be doable. Thanks for the input!

Re: Personal Concierge Using OpenAI's ChatGPT via Telegram and Voice Messages

#26

Did something similar (without voice) that runs on an esp32. This way I don't need any server or keep my desktop machine running. Supports Telegram and Discord. https://github.com/floitsch/ai-projects/tree/main/chat

OP integrated LangChan and the ability to Google results (and a neat way to integrate more agents). That’s the main draw for me in their implementation.

Yeah... That would be hard to do in the limited memory of the ESP32. Main issue is the cost of TLS connections.

Re: Personal Concierge Using OpenAI's ChatGPT via Telegram and Voice Messages

#28

Great work! Thanks for taking the time to build this and open sourcing it. For me, it scratches on a very real itch. I’ve toyed with the idea of a personal AI assistant to act as a second brain, and help me prioritize and remember things with human intuition (“you can’t afford to delay X, do X today and maybe reach out to Z to set the expectations for delaying Y?”). To me, the greatest strength of LLMs is not their k…

>a personal AI assistant to act as a second brain, and help me prioritize and remember things with human intuition

Everyone wants this, but this is not the product.

The current AI offerings are information in --> information out.

It is not meant to keep state long term, and it is not meant to be your friend. It is meant to answer questions with the information available to it.

You can even see in the example screenshot they showcase the fact that it is not designed to be asked follow-up questions.

Re: Personal Concierge Using OpenAI's ChatGPT via Telegram and Voice Messages

#29

Great work! Thanks for taking the time to build this and open sourcing it. For me, it scratches on a very real itch. I’ve toyed with the idea of a personal AI assistant to act as a second brain, and help me prioritize and remember things with human intuition (“you can’t afford to delay X, do X today and maybe reach out to Z to set the expectations for delaying Y?”). To me, the greatest strength of LLMs is not their k…

GPT4 is so much better than 3.5 at virtually everything that I don't think it's worth trying to figure out which ones 3.5 is almost adequate enough for.

Also, the pricing is per token, so even with 4 it is close to negligible unless you are loading in a lot of context or your conversation gets very long.

Re: Personal Concierge Using OpenAI's ChatGPT via Telegram and Voice Messages

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post #28

Great work! Thanks for taking the time to build this and open sourcing it. For me, it scratches on a very real itch. I’ve toyed with the idea of a personal AI assistant to act as a second brain, and help me prioritize and remember things with human intuition (“you can’t afford to delay X, do X today and maybe reach out to Z to set the expectations for delaying Y?”). To me, the greatest strength of LLMs is not their k…

> a personal AI assistant to act as a second brain, and help me prioritize and remember things with human intuition Everyone wants this, but this is not the product. The current AI offerings are information in --> information out. It is not meant to keep state long term, and it is not meant to be your friend. It is meant to answer questions with the information available to it. You can even see in the example screens…

You can use Langchain / Plugins to get around that issue
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