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Ask HN: Has Anyone Trained a personal LLM using their personal notes?

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Re: Ask HN: Has Anyone Trained a personal LLM using their personal notes?

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I've been disciplined (perhaps obsessive at times) with keeping a daily diary for many years and I was interested in being able to query my diary locally via AI. I found a solution that works surprisingly well using GPT4ALL. I found GPT4ALL ( https://gpt4all.io ) to have a nice-enough GUI, and it runs reasonably quickly on my M1 MacBook Air with 8Gb of ram, and it can be setup to be a completely local solution - not…

Nice one, I'm going to give it a try.

When you say Sbert you mean the GPT4All LocalDocs plugin?

Re: Ask HN: Has Anyone Trained a personal LLM using their personal notes?

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Maybe not exactly what you’re asking, but I started doing talk therapy last year. It’s done virtually and I record the session with OBS. As soon as the recording finishes, the following happens: - The audio is preprocessed (chunked) and sent to Whisper to generate a transcript - The transcript is sent to GPT-4 to generate a summary, action items, concepts introduced with additional information - The next meeting’s da…

wow - really cool. I'm actually the founder of an AI Meeting Bot company - and we're thinking of open-sourcing so you could run exactly this set-up locally with perfect diarization / recording while also maintaining privacy [1]. I'm currently creating code examples, and just finished the "chat with each session". Would love to know how you implemented it. [1] https://aimeetingbot.com

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Re: Ask HN: Has Anyone Trained a personal LLM using their personal notes?

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Maybe not exactly what you’re asking, but I started doing talk therapy last year. It’s done virtually and I record the session with OBS. As soon as the recording finishes, the following happens: - The audio is preprocessed (chunked) and sent to Whisper to generate a transcript - The transcript is sent to GPT-4 to generate a summary, action items, concepts introduced with additional information - The next meeting’s da…

Curious on the code. ( a friend is a psychiatrist and she noticed difficulty with multiple languages and device translations).

This flow could help me improve fluency in her sessions ( eg. she has a hardware translation device (expensive) which has significant issues auto translating ), since it's missing context a lot.

Eg. When grieving is incorrectly translated between dutch-polish, it defeats a bit of the purpose of being fluent in your native language.

Reducing the error rate would help a lot.

Re: Ask HN: Has Anyone Trained a personal LLM using their personal notes?

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post #11

Maybe not exactly what you’re asking, but I started doing talk therapy last year. It’s done virtually and I record the session with OBS. As soon as the recording finishes, the following happens: - The audio is preprocessed (chunked) and sent to Whisper to generate a transcript - The transcript is sent to GPT-4 to generate a summary, action items, concepts introduced with additional information - The next meeting’s da…

This is really interesting, are your comfortable with OpenAI having your personal details in this case?

OpenAI's privacy claims are fine. I wouldn't worry about this any more than I worry about my email provider.

Re: Ask HN: Has Anyone Trained a personal LLM using their personal notes?

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I've been disciplined (perhaps obsessive at times) with keeping a daily diary for many years and I was interested in being able to query my diary locally via AI. I found a solution that works surprisingly well using GPT4ALL. I found GPT4ALL ( https://gpt4all.io ) to have a nice-enough GUI, and it runs reasonably quickly on my M1 MacBook Air with 8Gb of ram, and it can be setup to be a completely local solution - not…

Nice one, I'm going to give it a try. When you say Sbert you mean the GPT4All LocalDocs plugin?

Yes, check out advanced settings for the plug-in after it's installed.

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I've been disciplined (perhaps obsessive at times) with keeping a daily diary for many years and I was interested in being able to query my diary locally via AI. I found a solution that works surprisingly well using GPT4ALL. I found GPT4ALL ( https://gpt4all.io ) to have a nice-enough GUI, and it runs reasonably quickly on my M1 MacBook Air with 8Gb of ram, and it can be setup to be a completely local solution - not…

Is the diary digital? I prefer writing on paper, and I'd like to try this. Wonder if there's any decent OCR app that'll help me do it.

Yes, completely digital - in markdown format. I use IA writer on the Mac.

Re: Ask HN: Has Anyone Trained a personal LLM using their personal notes?

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I've been disciplined (perhaps obsessive at times) with keeping a daily diary for many years and I was interested in being able to query my diary locally via AI. I found a solution that works surprisingly well using GPT4ALL. I found GPT4ALL ( https://gpt4all.io ) to have a nice-enough GUI, and it runs reasonably quickly on my M1 MacBook Air with 8Gb of ram, and it can be setup to be a completely local solution - not…

This might seem impressive because of the subjectiveness. I also imagine, you arent mentioning the times it was completely incorrect because you used a negative in the sentence. This is regular embeddings + LLM. At the end of the day, you are basically just adding a preprompt to a search. Not to mention, the Mistral models are barely useful for logic. I'm not really sure what you are getting out of it. I'm wondering…

>I also imagine, you arent mentioning the times it was completely incorrect because you used a negative in the sentence.

I haven't yet observed it being completely incorrect - I keep the queries simple without negation.

>This might seem impressive because of the subjectiveness.

It's surprising how it can summarise my relationship with another person, for example - if I ask "who is X?" it will deliver quite a succinct summary of the relationship - using my own words at times.

>I'm not really sure what you are getting out of it.

Mostly it's useful for self-reflection, it's helped me to see challenges I was facing from a more generalised perspective - particularly in my relationships with others. I'm also terribly impressed by the technology - being able to natural-language query and receive a sensible, and often insightful response - it feels like the future to me.

Re: Ask HN: Has Anyone Trained a personal LLM using their personal notes?

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Has anyone seen or used something that can train on a complete imessage history? Presumably, I have more than enough messages from me along with responses from others to chat with a version of myself that bears an incredible likeness to how I speak and think. In some cases, I'd expect to be able to chat with an LLM of a given contact to see how they'd respond to various questions as well.

I've implemented a POC on exactly this and am working on something more sophisticated right now. Can I reach out to discuss more?

Re: Ask HN: Has Anyone Trained a personal LLM using their personal notes?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another possibility is to use "op", although it can feel a bit forumish.

I used OP, though, I didn't want to use "OP" every time I am referencing this person, I thought it would sound strange OP OP OP... Anyway, I'm glad this thread turned into a "how you can avoid being called a misogynist in throwaway comment on HN". I guess from now on, I filter through my comments through Gemini to make sure my English is immaculate and that native English speakers don't castigate me for a small mista…

Mattlondon probably could have done without the color commentary, but I wouldn't take anything you did as wrong in English.

Our lack of singular neuter pronouns sucks. (I.e. singular 'they')

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