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Yup, this is my answer. I'm slowly building an in-house software suite .. because i can, i guess, and a big thing i'm wanting is to tie it all together with a human friendly administrative program. The main thing stopping me is NLP. Ideally, i want this offline only as i am unsure how much of my life i want to leave my home network.
I wanted to build an AI to plan my life. I buult a twitter clone to work on my phone only & I log my life in it. The AI would use my call logs & that App which I call Rants to do things like suggest calling someone I've not spoken to since a long time. I haven't started yet, I'd be grateful if you would be open to discussing on this topic :-) So far I didn't find any useful stuff on the internet
For me, functionality of the assistant was fundamentally difficult. I could think of a dozen things i would like a home assistant to do, but most of them i don't want to program. Things like playing a song of spotify, changing the device spotify is playing on, and etc.
For me, what i was willing to program a bot to do was manage my personal server, take a load off of me. Check for updates, notify me about them, ensure backups are being triggered, etcetc.
At the moment i don't even have a bot though. I've taken many iterations on the literal programmatic API, and still don't have it quite right. I started in Go, and am now sitting in Rust (though not actively working on it). The difficulty, is i want to find a nice way to write a handler for an event. Eg, a web page visit is a single handler for a single event. However a bot response is not a single event. It's a conversation - so i'm trying to figure how to manage the state. This is my biggest point of internal struggle.
Anyway, if given what i've said above you're still interested, feel free to let me know if you'd like to talk more :)