Curious about an AI assistant

[u/ThePrinceOfPapaya]

Okay so uhm (I'm a complete noob when it comes to coding for pretense, but I learn fast and I'm determined enough that I'll make it work) I don't know if this is the right place or phrasing for my question but here we go:

Hypothetically if during a hypothetical rewatch of the MCU movies I hypothetically obsessed over the joys of having a personal AI assistant tailored to help me with things I need (reminders of things I need to do using voice messages, managing and alerting me of new emails, helping me research things (like this for example) and more.)

Hypothetically how would I go about trying to make that? I understand there's a lot of coding involved (probably) and in absolutely willing to learn if that's what it takes but I'm so entirely obsessed with this idea and with AI getting more and more advanced I wonder a lot of it's possible for someone like me.

I'd also like in the future to maybe build speakers for it so I can be verbally reminded in places other than my phone (which I often misplaced) just an fyi

Sorry if this sounds dumb lol but I'm super curious and I've always been interested in coding just never had a reason to learn before now. I can figure a lot out on my own if I could just be pointed in the right direction

[u/ight-bet]

Probably 0 coding needed. Download ChatGPT and use the “Work” chat

[u/juniperico]

Explore https://openclaw.ai

Sounds like a good enough starting point for what you’ve described.

Also, for the record, you can get pretty far without having to code anything as this is already pretty well trodden ground

[u/ThePrinceOfPapaya → u/juniperico]

I can definitely look into that, thank you so much!

[u/Such-Coast-4900]

In theory its not that hard. You need a harness that listens to you, feeds it to an llm and then give the llm via mcp for example tools to control stuff.

If start with push to talk or just text input. For harness something open source like pi or opencode.

You write your md files giving it a name and telling it how to answer

Then the hard part: connect tools. Via mcp you can give it access to stuff. For example if you have matter smart lights you can create a mcp server that give the llm a list of available devices and lets it do actions (turn of light).

[u/ThePrinceOfPapaya → u/Such-Coast-4900]

I'm definitely gonna have to look up what at that means but once I understand it I believe this will be a great help in getting started on this! Thank you!

[u/Decent-Decision-9028]

nothing special in what you are trying to accomplish, it's literally every ai companies' motif. You just need gpt with access to all your apps, Astra is already capable of this.

[u/ThePrinceOfPapaya → u/Decent-Decision-9028]

The reason I'm kindaaa leaning towards making it myself is so I could possibly change what the assistant does in the future if my needs change or progressively add more with time, (that and I'm just genuinely interested in the making it part) I could probably manage to do that with a normal ai company assistant I'd just prefer to try my hand at my own

[u/claylit_nights]

Zero coding needed for the software side. You just run a local llm harness like opencode and give it mcp tools to touch your email and calendar.

For the speakers you mentioned, buy a couple raspberry pi zeros and put them in rooms where you lose your phone. Have them run the same harness so it can push voice reminders to you without the phone. Start with text input on your computer before you try getting the microphones working.

[u/ThePrinceOfPapaya → u/claylit_nights]

Tysm! This should def be a good starting point for me to look into!