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Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by chadd »

raybb wrote: post #66
chadd wrote: post #41

i built my own version of this called 'threethings' (per pmarca's essay on the subject of personal productivity). i gave an ec2 claude instance access to a folder that is synced with gdrive so it's easy to get local files to the instance, and gsuite access. i had claude build a flutter app one hour when i couldn't sleep, and gave it a telegram bot account. i talk to it via telegram and it keeps tabs on personal and w…

How do you deal with context management? What are you doing for storage? Markdown files for each day or something? Sounds great!

Each ‘role’ (CTO, family manager, etc) is run in a separate claude instance and they don’t share context, which helps keep them on task.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by BoorishBears »

apetresc wrote: post #46
anotherengineer wrote: post #36

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how do you have Clawdbot WhatsApp you? i set mine up with my own WhatsApp account, and the responses come back as myself so i haven't been able to get notifications

I have an old iPhone with a broken screen that I threw an $8/month eSIM onto so that it has its own phone number, that I just keep plugged in with the screen off, on Wifi, in a drawer. It hosts a number of things for me, most importantly bridges for WhatsApp and iMessage. So I can actually give things like Clawdbot their own phone number, their own AppleID, etc. Then I just add them as a contact on my real phone, and…

I heard it costs $15 for just a few minutes of usage though

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by kristopolous »

shmoogy wrote: post #63
kristopolous wrote: post #33

Baffling. Isn't this just a basic completion loop with toolcalling hooked up to a universal chat gateway? Isn't that a one shot chatgpt prompt? (Yes it is: https://chatgpt.com/share/6976ca33-7bd8-8013-9b4f-2b417206d0... ) Why's everyone couch fainting over this?

It's good at making new skills for itself, and the ability to add to WhatsApp, telegram, and discord means sharing access to internal applications and not needing users to get onto VPN makes a great combination.

You're just telling me common features. Those are just normal things now

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by kristopolous »

gbear605 wrote: post #57
thehamkercat wrote: post #51

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And when you can use claude-code from basically any device (termux on phone via ssh), Why even bother? I had 3 friends ping me yesterday to tell me how this is going to eat their job.... but i don't see how this is different from claude-code + some chat interface + mcp servers

> termux on phone via ssh I agree, but it also rhymes a lot with the infamous “why use Dropbox when you can just use rsync” comment. Convenience can be a game changer.

Not exactly. This isn't substantive work. Do we really need to find a bunch of identical projects on GitHub?

This is the kind of project I saw at hackathons in 2023 by teams that didn't win anything

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by kristopolous »

jason_tko wrote: post #77

I've seen many people say "I don't get the hype", so here's my attempt to explain it. I've been working in technology and software companies my entire life, but not as a developer. Two days ago, I submitted and had my first pull request merged to an open source project (Clawdbot) thanks to my AI assistant rei. A short story: rei suddenly stopped responding in some Slack channels. So I asked it to help me troubleshoot…

This is a thing you can enable on GitHub for any project.

You just described a GitHub feature

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by rlt »

apetresc wrote: post #46
anotherengineer wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how do you have Clawdbot WhatsApp you? i set mine up with my own WhatsApp account, and the responses come back as myself so i haven't been able to get notifications

I have an old iPhone with a broken screen that I threw an $8/month eSIM onto so that it has its own phone number, that I just keep plugged in with the screen off, on Wifi, in a drawer. It hosts a number of things for me, most importantly bridges for WhatsApp and iMessage. So I can actually give things like Clawdbot their own phone number, their own AppleID, etc. Then I just add them as a contact on my real phone, and…

For iMessage I don’t think you actually need a second phone number, you can just make a second iCloud account with the same phone number.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by tflinton »

Believe it or not clippy the Microsoft helper for word was a huge interest and feature for all of about 2-3 weeks before everyone realized its interactions were just “on top” of actually doing something. Once the cost of clippy, and its failure to actually be helpful sunk in it was relegated to jokes and eventually down the line memes.

It’s hard to actually create something that is a personal assistant. If I want it to keep and eye out for reservations I guarantee it would take a few hours for me to get that setup, more time that it would take to just watch for reservations.

If I wanted it to find out when I needed to register my child for school then do it, I’m 100% sure it would fail and probably in some range from comical to annoying.

This seems less like a personal assistant and more like a “hey bro how ya doing?”. It lacks the ability to inquire and ask questions and deduce.

If I have to prop it up to complete any random task I have, I’ve just got another version of clippy with a lot more computing power.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by kristopolous »

imranq wrote: 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…

You know that's the easier and more careless thing to implement. You're flattering someone being reckless

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by jhickok »

mentos wrote: post #69
jhickok wrote: post #7

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I thought the same thing. I had a spare iMac sitting around so I thought I would kick the tires on it. I realize I could have used something else, but I wanted to give it iMessage access. I have to say, it's just better enough than a few things I have tried to really give me a glimpse of what is possible and make me excited. I am nervous about handing over a computer, my accounts, data, etc to a tireless bot that can…

What’s the main use case for you or feature with the greatest promise?

It's only been a few days and I am still exploring, but my household has two adults and three kids all with very busy, individual schedules, and one of the nicest features was setting up a morning text message to everyone with reminders for the day. It checks school schedules, test reminders, sports events, doctor's appts (I am in PT), and adds personal context assuming it has access to it (it usually does). I understand much of this probably could have been done for a while, but this seems like the nicest packaged up assistant that I have tried.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by tflinton »

AWebOfBrown wrote: post #26

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...

F** oracle.
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