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Re: Claude for Desktop

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I'm using AnythingLLM for this now. https://anythingllm.com/ MIT License on GitHub This week it got the X.ai API added which is what I'm using. Grok is not as good as Claude or ChatGPT yet, but don't bet against Elon. https://x.com/ServeTheHome/status/1850917031421399543 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1830650370336473253 It's the desktop solution I've been looking for. If you have a heap of prompts, you can create a W…

These prompts are terrific, thank you!

Re: Claude for Desktop

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post #120

For those that use LLMs in a similar manner to a search engine the Anthropic team (unlike Meta AI and Google Gemini) have made it easy to use Claude from right within your browser. In Firefox add a bookmark with the following values: - Name: Claude AI - URL: https://claude.ai/new?q=%s - Keyword: ai (or whatever you'd like to use as a shortcut) Now from the URL bar you can type: ai For ChatGPT use https://chatgpt.com/…

Also, if you prefer using AI assistants as desktop apps that feel separate to the browser and you can open directly, you can download Progressive Web Apps for Firefox [1] and create a separate shortcut for a sandboxed profile of Firefox with less visual clutter that open the assistant directly.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/pwas-for-fire...

Re: Claude for Desktop

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post #120

For those that use LLMs in a similar manner to a search engine the Anthropic team (unlike Meta AI and Google Gemini) have made it easy to use Claude from right within your browser. In Firefox add a bookmark with the following values: - Name: Claude AI - URL: https://claude.ai/new?q=%s - Keyword: ai (or whatever you'd like to use as a shortcut) Now from the URL bar you can type: ai For ChatGPT use https://chatgpt.com/…

This is not unique to FireFox. This is also possible in Chrome (Settings -> Search Engine) and looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/qxap6iI Setup the way I have in the image you can simply type @claude and your search Worth noting that Gemini also offers a URL shortcut for searching Gemini via @gemini within the Chrome browser.

Are you on Linux by chance? Your font doesn’t look like it has anti aliasing which seems like a common Linux thing

Re: Claude for Desktop

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post #113

if your "desktop app" gives me a cookie consent banner, i'm going to assume it's a pretty lazy effort to have a desktop app. i can click the "install page as app" button in chrome myself, thanks.

On the flip side, the ChatGPT desktop app is native on Mac and it's buggy and feature-incomplete compared to the web version.

What are some of the bugs? I’ve not noticed any. The feature lag is real, still no canvas.

Re: Claude for Desktop

#186

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This is not unique to FireFox. This is also possible in Chrome (Settings -> Search Engine) and looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/qxap6iI Setup the way I have in the image you can simply type @claude and your search Worth noting that Gemini also offers a URL shortcut for searching Gemini via @gemini within the Chrome browser.

Are you on Linux by chance? Your font doesn’t look like it has anti aliasing which seems like a common Linux thing

It's not a common Linux thing, all major distros ship with antialiasing configs ootb. The person just disabled it.

Re: Claude for Desktop

#187
post #120

For those that use LLMs in a similar manner to a search engine the Anthropic team (unlike Meta AI and Google Gemini) have made it easy to use Claude from right within your browser. In Firefox add a bookmark with the following values: - Name: Claude AI - URL: https://claude.ai/new?q=%s - Keyword: ai (or whatever you'd like to use as a shortcut) Now from the URL bar you can type: ai For ChatGPT use https://chatgpt.com/…

BTW you can use s[1]

you can combine it with your shell to call claude, chatgpt

sc expands to s --provider claude sgpt expands to s --provider chatgpt

[1] https://github.com/zquestz/s

Re: Claude for Desktop

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post #185
post #113

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On the flip side, the ChatGPT desktop app is native on Mac and it's buggy and feature-incomplete compared to the web version.

What are some of the bugs? I’ve not noticed any. The feature lag is real, still no canvas.

Also search is unavailable, regarding missing features.

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Uuuh.. so take all my data, as long as it's native?

Desktop apps can store what they like. There is no EU law preventing desktop apps from storing anything, unlike websites.

This is not true - both GDPR & ePrivacy rules apply to any software, none of it is specific to websites (although obviously that's where it's most easily abused, and where most of the attention is).
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