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Hermes Agent – Open-source AI agent with persistent memory

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Re: Hermes Agent – Open-source AI agent with persistent memory

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Post by oceanwaves »

hank1931 wrote: post #9
eranation wrote: post #2

Surprised it wasn't on the homepage yet, my X / LinkedIn feed is non stop about it. I would love to hear from someone who actually played with all the FOMO harnesses / frameworks and actually did a first impression comparison on what to try out (I'm sure it's not even apples to apples) or discovered that it's all marginally better at best from just rolling your own via Claude Code / Codex / Cursor... - paperclip - he…

Check out Eve ( https://eve.new ). I saw it here on Hacker News after I decided OpenClaw was too raw for me. Eve is amazing. My theory as to why it's so good is that the founders have a strong background in design -- they met getting their masters in design at UC Berkeley. Their secret sauce is the harness they've constructed IMHO. Here is what Zach Dive said in the original HN announcement-- Eve is an AI agent harne…

This was not a pleasant experience to register with and evaluate. Nowhere is a Linux-deployable harness mentioned. It seems to be a Perplexity-like offering.

On top of that, users logging in with Google OIDC cannot delete their accounts. Eve asks for the login password to confirm account deletion. Broken.

Re: Hermes Agent – Open-source AI agent with persistent memory

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Post by KennyBlanken »

jdiff wrote: post #7
eranation wrote: post #2

Surprised it wasn't on the homepage yet, my X / LinkedIn feed is non stop about it. I would love to hear from someone who actually played with all the FOMO harnesses / frameworks and actually did a first impression comparison on what to try out (I'm sure it's not even apples to apples) or discovered that it's all marginally better at best from just rolling your own via Claude Code / Codex / Cursor... - paperclip - he…

OpenCode seemed perfectly workable as a programming assistant. As personal assistants, they all fall short. It's too difficult to really shape their output. I was briefly impressed with OpenClaw a few times, but ultimately was turned off by not being able to get the models to stop being so damnably verbose. I thought I made progress for a while by having it tweak its soul, iterate, switch models, iterate, switch mode…

The project in question that is asserting Hermes is copying their ideas:

https://github.com/EvoMap/evolver

The timeline here is pretty telling and it looks like Hermes basically points their coding agent at evolver and says "reimplement this yourself." A few days later Hermes magically sports a nearly identical feature.

https://evomap.ai/blog/hermes-agent-evolver-similarity-analy...

Re: Hermes Agent – Open-source AI agent with persistent memory

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Post by ilaksh »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #15

Why do these AI agents keep using Telegram as their channel for user communication? Telegram is literally a spying platform run by the FSB?

Telegram makes it very easy to create a bot. Other systems are either inconvenient or actively hostile to new bots, especially if you're not a well-known business.

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Post by EGreg »

lxe wrote: post #18
KennyBlanken wrote: post #15

Why do these AI agents keep using Telegram as their channel for user communication? Telegram is literally a spying platform run by the FSB?

Have you tried setting up a bot for something like WhatsApp? I'd much rather use a KGB spy platform with actual user ergonomics.

What's wrong with having a website where you scan a QR code, and have your own private chat, and it sends notifications using, say, Web Push?

Re: Hermes Agent – Open-source AI agent with persistent memory

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Post by hank1931 »

embedding-shape wrote: post #13
hank1931 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Check out Eve ( https://eve.new ). I saw it here on Hacker News after I decided OpenClaw was too raw for me. Eve is amazing. My theory as to why it's so good is that the founders have a strong background in design -- they met getting their masters in design at UC Berkeley. Their secret sauce is the harness they've constructed IMHO. Here is what Zach Dive said in the original HN announcement-- Eve is an AI agent harne…

> Check out Eve ( https://eve.new ). > Continue with Google/Email Seems very different from the other listed options in parent's comment if you need an online account with Eve to even use it.

I see your point. The others are self-hosted, and you bring your own key. Personally, I like the convenience Eve's online account provides. It's dead simple to be up and off to the races, getting useful work done with little effort. After struggling with OpenClaw, it has been a very pleasant experience. Several people in our company are using it now.

Re: Hermes Agent – Open-source AI agent with persistent memory

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Post by dumbmrblah »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #15

Why do these AI agents keep using Telegram as their channel for user communication? Telegram is literally a spying platform run by the FSB?

I have Hermes and set it up so that it works on a self-hosted Matrix instance. It was pretty simple to set up after some back and forth with a more powerful model. It's primarily how I interact with Hermes. I don't really use a command line on my computer with it.

Just open up a Matrix Element chat window and go at it. I've been replacing more and more apps on my phone with this setup, and it's pretty streamlined. It's nice knowing that everything is local. The Matrix server is local, the local AI inference is local, etc.

Re: Hermes Agent – Open-source AI agent with persistent memory

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Post by [deleted] »

jdiff wrote: post #7
eranation wrote: post #2

Surprised it wasn't on the homepage yet, my X / LinkedIn feed is non stop about it. I would love to hear from someone who actually played with all the FOMO harnesses / frameworks and actually did a first impression comparison on what to try out (I'm sure it's not even apples to apples) or discovered that it's all marginally better at best from just rolling your own via Claude Code / Codex / Cursor... - paperclip - he…

OpenCode seemed perfectly workable as a programming assistant. As personal assistants, they all fall short. It's too difficult to really shape their output. I was briefly impressed with OpenClaw a few times, but ultimately was turned off by not being able to get the models to stop being so damnably verbose. I thought I made progress for a while by having it tweak its soul, iterate, switch models, iterate, switch mode…

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