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Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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post #5

I see this posted everywhere this week. Is it really that good? I understand this runs on any hardware (not limited to Mac Minis) as long as you have an API key to an LLM (Preferably to Claude). People online make bold promises that it will change your life... It sounds interesting to me, I might install it on a cheap Mini PC with Ubuntu. This can't come at any worst time as storage and RAM has gotten astronomical. I…

You can use local llms, API key is not required...

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Clawdbot finally clicked for me this week. I was renting out an apartment and I had it connect to FB messenger, do the initial screening messages and then schedule times for viewings in my calendar. I was approving it's draft messages but starting giving it some automatic responses as well. Overall it did 9/10 on this task with a couple cases where it got confused. This is just scratching the surface but this was som…

That's so cool, it's helping you landlord better. Like you said, valuable. Hype!

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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What if we will go even further? I have built end-to-end messaging layer for Clawdbot to talk to each other, called Murmur - https://github.com/slopus/murmur.

We tried this with friends and it is truly magical (while crazy insecure) - i can ask my agent to search friends life, their preferences, about their calendars, what films they are watching. It can look at emails and find if you need something and go to people around asking for help. It is truly magical. Very very curious where it can go. At the moment it is exceptionally easy to exfiltrate anything, but you still can control via proper prompts - what you want to share and what you dont want to. I bet models will became better and eventually it wont be a problem.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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If you're interested in hosting it at no cost on Oracle Cloud's always free tier (4 cpu, 24GB ram), instead of buying a Mac Mini or paying for a VPS, I wrote up how-to with a Pulumi infra-as-code template here: https://abrown.blog/posts/personal-assistant-clawdbot-on-ora...

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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post #9

I really like Clawdbots safety gloves off approach - no handholding or just saying yes to every permission. I set it up on a old macbook pro I had that had a broken screen and it works great. Now I just message my server using telegram and it does research for me, organizes my notes, and builds small apps on the fly to help with learning. However security is a real concern. I need to understand how to create a compre…

But prompt injection is still a thing though. Remember the lethal trifecta..

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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post #21
post #5

I see this posted everywhere this week. Is it really that good? I understand this runs on any hardware (not limited to Mac Minis) as long as you have an API key to an LLM (Preferably to Claude). People online make bold promises that it will change your life... It sounds interesting to me, I might install it on a cheap Mini PC with Ubuntu. This can't come at any worst time as storage and RAM has gotten astronomical. I…

You can use local llms, API key is not required...

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Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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This is all starting to feel like the productivity theater rabbit hole people (myself included) went down with apps like Notion/Obsidian. It is clearly capable of doing a lot of stuff, but where is the real impact? Like it’s cool that your downloads folder, digital notes and emails are all properly organized and tags. But they reason they were in that state to begin with is because you don’t inherently derive value f…

I think not having time to organize is different from not seeing the value. Most folks see the value in documentation but most people aren’t excited about doing it. AI agents are masters of busy work. Life has a lot of it.
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