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Re: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

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Post by thisOtterBeGood »

nunodonato wrote: post #48

I have my own personal digital assistant in the form of a telegram bot. Why telegram? Because it is in a group with me, my wife, and the bot. It manages our calendars, reminders, shopping list, and a few other things. When we think of something that might be useful, I add it. It's been great, and because it's on telegram, my wife uses it without issues.

How does it manage your calendars and shopping lists? Does he just print the events and shopping lists into the chat or does he have access to like a google calendar?

Re: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

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Post by 3D30497420 »

dustincoates wrote: post #36
3D30497420 wrote: post #9

I’m learning German, and my listening comprehension particularly needs work. So I create mini stories on different topics using Claude, then ElevenLabs to do narration.

I do a very similar thing. I have Gemini create me a story based on a historical activity that happened on that day with an instruction to use A2 and below constructs. Then I have it give me: - A transliteration (I'm still getting used to the non-Latin alphabet) - A list of vocabulary from the story - Grammar tips Then it is emailed every day around lunch. I need to go back and tweak it, though, because Gemini really…

Cool! Does Gemini support emailing, or is this handled separately? I've been interested in creating something similar, but haven't devoted the time.

Re: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

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Post by dustincoates »

3D30497420 wrote: post #53
dustincoates wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do a very similar thing. I have Gemini create me a story based on a historical activity that happened on that day with an instruction to use A2 and below constructs. Then I have it give me: - A transliteration (I'm still getting used to the non-Latin alphabet) - A list of vocabulary from the story - Grammar tips Then it is emailed every day around lunch. I need to go back and tweak it, though, because Gemini really…

Cool! Does Gemini support emailing, or is this handled separately? I've been interested in creating something similar, but haven't devoted the time.

It's done in Lambda; with the email template, script for sending via Resend, and script for packaging for Lambda all done with V0.

Re: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

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Post by exiguus »

- postgress/pgvector and ollama in a jupyter notebooks[1] to search my documents/projects and other data

- Mistral as search engine and for natural language processing (mostly summaries of something)

- Co-Pilot, mostly as autocomplete and sometimes to ask questions or let it write tests or do refactoring

- AWS AI Services to create tasks, tickets and stories from templates in JIRA or YouTrack.

- Github/Co-Pilot and Gitlab/snyk for code review and security analysis in PRs

[1] basically https://github.com/roskakori/wolkenlose-ki-fuer-zu-hause/tre... and now i try also https://github.com/ggozad/haiku.rag

Re: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

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Post by eddyg »

irthomasthomas wrote: post #58
eddyg wrote: post #57

VSCode with Copilot using Claude Sonnet 4 as the model, running in Agent mode.

Is there a way to have that run automatically where it does not require clicking continue each turn?

See https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/chat/chat-agent-m...

Re: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

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Post by nunodonato »

thisOtterBeGood wrote: post #51
nunodonato wrote: post #48

I have my own personal digital assistant in the form of a telegram bot. Why telegram? Because it is in a group with me, my wife, and the bot. It manages our calendars, reminders, shopping list, and a few other things. When we think of something that might be useful, I add it. It's been great, and because it's on telegram, my wife uses it without issues.

How does it manage your calendars and shopping lists? Does he just print the events and shopping lists into the chat or does he have access to like a google calendar?

It fetches our calendars from different providers and injects upcoming events in the context. We haven't felt the need to do 2-way sync'ing yet. Reminders and shopping list are fully managed by the AI, they get stored in json files
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