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Re: Kagi Assistant

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Post by daft_pink »

I love Kagi and I’m a paid user, but I’m not willing to pay $25 per month for the assistants for the following reasons: * I already pay these companies directly and wouldn’t be able to cancel these as I use the voice assistant on my phone from ChatGPT and love using the artifacts from Claude on my computer * I’m also paying raycast to access these at the touch of my keyboard and prefer to quick access use it there

I love Kagi and can’t recommend it enough. I wish I could just give them my api key for this instead of paying several different service providers for the same ai access to the same models. This is getting expensive.

Re: Kagi Assistant

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Post by aeturnum »

lawn wrote: post #25
aeturnum wrote: post #18

I do think LLMs have their place in search and I think the Kagi approach feels a lot better than Googles'. Kagi doesn't inject LLM results anywhere, but they've been making LLMs accessible in their search interface for a long while - this being the most evolved version of that effort. I am not totally sold on everything they are doing but I hate their integration of LLMs the least.

Kagi's auto summary feature when you add a question mark after your query is absolutely excellent. It essentially summarizes the top search results for you, leaning in on a strength of LLMs (summarizing) while reducing its greatest weakness (hallucinations).

For me, search integration of LLMs also helps bring together the value prop of paid search. It's not just privacy, it's the skillful integration of a premium information processing service (with built in privacy).

Re: Kagi Assistant

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Post by msmithstubbs »

eli wrote: post #29
cube2222 wrote: post #14

To repeat myself from a recent HN thread: I've been using Kagi for a while (almost two years now!) and it's been nothing but excellent! Lenses are very useful (Reddit lens is on every second search), and I personally really like the AI features they are working on. The new more advanced assistant which is able to do searches, which can also be constrained to lenses, and lets you pick an arbitrary model, is excellent,…

Unfortunately I think Kagi only has old Reddit content now that Reddit only lets Google crawl them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41057033

Kagi uses Google as one of its sources for search results so should be able to return the same reddit results as Google.

Re: Kagi Assistant

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Post by lotsofpulp »

eli wrote: post #29
cube2222 wrote: post #14

To repeat myself from a recent HN thread: I've been using Kagi for a while (almost two years now!) and it's been nothing but excellent! Lenses are very useful (Reddit lens is on every second search), and I personally really like the AI features they are working on. The new more advanced assistant which is able to do searches, which can also be constrained to lenses, and lets you pick an arbitrary model, is excellent,…

Unfortunately I think Kagi only has old Reddit content now that Reddit only lets Google crawl them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41057033

Old Reddit (and other website) content might actually be more valuable given the higher likelihood of newer posts being spam/AI bot posts.

Re: Kagi Assistant

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Post by eli »

msmithstubbs wrote: post #34
eli wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately I think Kagi only has old Reddit content now that Reddit only lets Google crawl them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41057033

Kagi uses Google as one of its sources for search results so should be able to return the same reddit results as Google.

Doesn't seem like it. Can you get it to return a reddit result from the last 6 weeks?

Re: Kagi Assistant

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Post by [deleted] »

eli wrote: post #36
msmithstubbs wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kagi uses Google as one of its sources for search results so should be able to return the same reddit results as Google.

Doesn't seem like it. Can you get it to return a reddit result from the last 6 weeks?

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Re: Kagi Assistant

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Post by hn_user2 »

bangaladore wrote: post #9
cstuder wrote: post #5

So for 25$ a month I get access to ChatGPT and Claude offerings in addition to access to Kagi search. This sounds like a good deal, compared to the 20$/month access to ChatGPT only. Or am I missing something?

You can use something like OpenRouter, which lets you access essentially all commercially available models. Including open-source models. There are no rate limits. You pay a different rate per model (OpenRouter shows the pricing transparently). You load your account with credits. I use it daily (undoubtedly far more than the average user) and loaded 50$ with credits five months ago, but I still have over 1/2 of it le…

Chatblade cli is also worth checking out. No loading fees and you can pipe code results to files.

Re: Kagi Assistant

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Post by ezekg »

eli wrote: post #36
msmithstubbs wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kagi uses Google as one of its sources for search results so should be able to return the same reddit results as Google.

Doesn't seem like it. Can you get it to return a reddit result from the last 6 weeks?

I'm able to search a post I made a couple weeks ago: https://kagi.com/search?q=%22union_of%22+site%3Areddit.com
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