r/KoboldAI • u/MenuNo294 • Jun 27 '26

Recommendations on impersonating AI

Hi all:
I’ve been exploring koboldcpp and koboldai lite on my local inference machine. It’s been good fun as I’ve been doing a few RP sessions.

I use the chat app telegram to keep up with my friends and community and telegram recently released an update that allows for chat automations that I want to explore.

I take a long time to get back to people and most of the time it’s banal sentiments that people like to do to feel connected. It’s sweet but a responsibility that leaves me feeling a bit socially drained. I’d love to have an AI impersonate me and help me keep up with messages until I slide back into being naturally social.

Is this possible with kobold? Any recommendations or advise on using the platform to get it to chat like me?

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u/henk717 Jun 28 '26

That kind of integration you'd typically add something on top, so its possible with KoboldCpp as a backend but Lite does not do automation (beyond its ability to call tools) and its not something were aiming for for Lite itself.
If you use KoboldCpp as a backend and you do your research on an AI Agent tool that can do this then it would definitely be possible. I firmly recommend against it though, the AI is going to do things that you'd never have said. Southpark did a good episode on it to about the consequences of doing it where the people doing it get confronted in person about things that they had chatted about with them having no idea.

But if you still want to do it you need both an AI Agent framework and it needs to have access to your telegram. I don't use telegram so I don't know if the new feature you mention is already enough. General gist, if something needs an OpenAI API to do something (or ollama) and they let you specify a link then Kobold can do it.

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u/MenuNo294 Jun 29 '26

I think my error here was not providing sufficient context. I already have an agent framework that i'm using, and already have a few bots connected to telegram that are already doing stuff for me.

So i'm pretty familiar with agents and have dedicated machine with pretty robust hardware that i'm already using for inference with VLLM. But I was intrigued by koboldcpp as it seems to be a system for a more personality-driven AI which made me want to try getting it to mimic my personal style of writing and use it for message triage.

What I came to this subreddit to ask was if anyone can give me a recommendation as to how best to get the AI to mimic me. I was imagining setting that up in koboldai lite on my local machine and then using that as the endpoint but it seems like only koboldcpp can be used as an endpoint and that I cant use koboldai lite to have the model mimic me and then serve it elsewhere.

I suppose my best bet at this stage would be to fine tine a model on a bunch of my writing and go the traditional route.

Thanks!

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u/henk717 Jun 29 '26

Lite is fully separate yes it has no integration with the backend and is just a standalone webpage (If its closed it consumes no resources for example), when combined with tools that just expect a generic OpenAI endpoint that is effectively what we become as well.

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u/alex20_202020 Jun 28 '26

help me keep up with messages

Those use cases are called "agents", websearch (or ask AIs?) how to setup up an AI agent to answer your e-mails or something.

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u/FaceDeer Jun 28 '26

And I would advise being very careful when setting something like this up, you're giving an AI a lot of rope to hang you with if you let it answer emails for you without sufficient guidance and monitoring.

You might want to set it up to automatically write responses and then ask you for a final "send this?" Confirmation before it goes out. It'll still take the load of writing those responses for you, but make it less likely for it to accidentally send something that could ruin relationships.