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Always stuck to the flagship google models as my primary driver (starting with the G1 in college) for the pure google experience, but between killing assistant in favor of Gemini which can't do something as simple as telling me the weather without hallucinating and the sideloading lockdown shenanigans might as well switch over to Apple fully.
Google Assistant is going away, to be replaced by - checks notes - Google Assistant by a different name. k Tangentially related, does anyone know any FOSS (local preferred, but self hosted if required for performance) assistant apps? After switching to GrapheneOS I do miss Bixby (say what you want about it, but creating reminders/alarms by merely holding down a button and using natural speech was quite handy).
[1] https://www.home-assistant.io/
[2] Although frankly to have a fast-enough and good-enough LLM you might need to use a service
It still does it, but these days you can reply: "yes you %@#$ing can, use a tool call!!" and it will
PS. Strangely it used to boilerplate back with "Here's [the/your] latest news" - now it says "Here's your news briefing" ...
... but it still works.-
I will miss that.-
Always stuck to the flagship google models as my primary driver (starting with the G1 in college) for the pure google experience, but between killing assistant in favor of Gemini which can't do something as simple as telling me the weather without hallucinating and the sideloading lockdown shenanigans might as well switch over to Apple fully.
Don't be dramatic. Gemini is fine. I have the Google voice setup all throughout my house and haven't had any issues major enough that would want me to keep the original assistant.
Always stuck to the flagship google models as my primary driver (starting with the G1 in college) for the pure google experience, but between killing assistant in favor of Gemini which can't do something as simple as telling me the weather without hallucinating and the sideloading lockdown shenanigans might as well switch over to Apple fully.
Don't be dramatic. Gemini is fine. I have the Google voice setup all throughout my house and haven't had any issues major enough that would want me to keep the original assistant.
Google Assistant is going away, to be replaced by - checks notes - Google Assistant by a different name. k Tangentially related, does anyone know any FOSS (local preferred, but self hosted if required for performance) assistant apps? After switching to GrapheneOS I do miss Bixby (say what you want about it, but creating reminders/alarms by merely holding down a button and using natural speech was quite handy).
Home Assistant [1] can be a voice assistant (both on phone and on dedicated devices). It's FOSS and can be fully local [2]. It's really gear towards home automation though, so its suitability depends on what you want to do with an assistant [1] https://www.home-assistant.io/ [2] Although frankly to have a fast-enough and good-enough LLM you might need to use a service
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Home Assistant [1] can be a voice assistant (both on phone and on dedicated devices). It's FOSS and can be fully local [2]. It's really gear towards home automation though, so its suitability depends on what you want to do with an assistant [1] https://www.home-assistant.io/ [2] Although frankly to have a fast-enough and good-enough LLM you might need to use a service
I do want to setup home assistant at some point, but my main usecase for a smartphone assistant is what I mentioned. Things like setting reminders/todo list items, creating calendar events - even sending quick messages to contacts. Basically, things I can already do on my phone, but can do quicker through natural language.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Home Assistant [1] can be a voice assistant (both on phone and on dedicated devices). It's FOSS and can be fully local [2]. It's really gear towards home automation though, so its suitability depends on what you want to do with an assistant [1] https://www.home-assistant.io/ [2] Although frankly to have a fast-enough and good-enough LLM you might need to use a service
I do want to setup home assistant at some point, but my main usecase for a smartphone assistant is what I mentioned. Things like setting reminders/todo list items, creating calendar events - even sending quick messages to contacts. Basically, things I can already do on my phone, but can do quicker through natural language.
