Show HN: YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI

Greetings!

YakGPT is a simple, frontend-only, ChatGPT UI you can use to either chat normally, or, more excitingly, use your mic + OpenAI's Whisper API to chat hands-free.

Some features:

* A few fun characters pre-installed

* No tracking or analytics, OpenAI is the only thing it calls out to

* Optimized for mobile use via hands-free mode and cross-platform compressed audio recording

* Your API key and chat history are stored in browser local storage only

* Open-source, you can either use the deployed version at Vercel, or run it locally

Planned features:

* Integrate Eleven Labs & other TTS services to enable full hands-free conversation

* Implement LangChain and/or plugins

* Integrate more ASR services that allow for streaming

Source code: https://github.com/yakGPT/yakGPT

I’d love for you to try it out and hear your feedback!

Show HN: YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI
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Make it easier to try

They provided an option to build it locally and run it yourself. But yeah, I wish there is a common proxy protocol that would allow website accessing private resources without exposing private keys

It is more local than talking to chat GPT directly. Open AI stores all your requests on their server. This saves it on your computer. The title also claims it's a UI which always, for now, runs locally.

Looks cool! Are you planning on adding more customization to be able to influence the AI? See https://bettergpt.chat/ (it's also open source and uses API in the browser). Basically with that frontend you can control the role of all messages (e.g. add system messages) and also edit them all to better influence the AI in some cases.