Build your own Siri locally and on-device
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Build your own Siri locally and on-device
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Re: Build your own Siri locally and on-device
#2So build your own crappy agent-assistant?
In earnest though, I'm certain we'll see a community replacement of Siri by end-of-year if the iPhone permissions model allows it or there's some workaround. IDK what the limitations are here but I'm eagerly awaiting the community to step in where Siri has failed.
Re: Build your own Siri locally and on-device
#3So build your own crappy agent-assistant? In earnest though, I'm certain we'll see a community replacement of Siri by end-of-year if the iPhone permissions model allows it or there's some workaround. IDK what the limitations are here but I'm eagerly awaiting the community to step in where Siri has failed.
The assistant is only half the story here. This looks like a great, well-defined tutorial project to learn how to put this stuff together locally.
Re: Build your own Siri locally and on-device
#4So build your own crappy agent-assistant? In earnest though, I'm certain we'll see a community replacement of Siri by end-of-year if the iPhone permissions model allows it or there's some workaround. IDK what the limitations are here but I'm eagerly awaiting the community to step in where Siri has failed.
Crappy? Dude, Siri at one point couldn't even tell you what today's date was. The bar is on the ground.
Re: Build your own Siri locally and on-device
#5This is great, thanks for putting this together.
Haven't followed it through yet, but does this model run successfully on an iPhone?
My 9 year old ran a Qwen 0.6B model using ollama quite well, anything else was too slow to offer a good UX.
Re: Build your own Siri locally and on-device
#6Cool project and nice write-up!
Re: Build your own Siri locally and on-device
#7So build your own crappy agent-assistant? In earnest though, I'm certain we'll see a community replacement of Siri by end-of-year if the iPhone permissions model allows it or there's some workaround. IDK what the limitations are here but I'm eagerly awaiting the community to step in where Siri has failed.
Crappy? Dude, Siri at one point couldn't even tell you what today's date was. The bar is on the ground.
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Re: Build your own Siri locally and on-device
#8Does Apple even allow you to replace Siri with another assistant? For the longest time on android, all non-Google assistants were crippled by not being able to listen in the background or use the assistant hardkey, gestures, or shortcuts. I'm not sure if the Google assistant still has privileges others don't, but I wouldn't be surprised in the least.
Re: Build your own Siri locally and on-device
#9So build your own crappy agent-assistant? In earnest though, I'm certain we'll see a community replacement of Siri by end-of-year if the iPhone permissions model allows it or there's some workaround. IDK what the limitations are here but I'm eagerly awaiting the community to step in where Siri has failed.
> So build your own crappy agent-assistant?
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
(Your comment would be fine without that first bit.)
Re: Build your own Siri locally and on-device
#10So build your own crappy agent-assistant? In earnest though, I'm certain we'll see a community replacement of Siri by end-of-year if the iPhone permissions model allows it or there's some workaround. IDK what the limitations are here but I'm eagerly awaiting the community to step in where Siri has failed.
Crappy? Dude, Siri at one point couldn't even tell you what today's date was. The bar is on the ground.
I do not know if it is because I have been trained to make simple requests, but there are only a half dozen things I would verbally ask a robot.
- time of day
- calendar date
- weather
- set a timer
- simple math calculation
That’s 90% of the functionality right there.