I Built My Own Local-First AI Assistant in Go — Meet Nox

Description and use

<p>Alexa and Google Assistant are incredibly convenient.</p> <p>But there was one thing that kept bothering me:</p> <p><strong>Why does my personal assistant need somebody else's cloud to think?</strong></p> <p>I wanted something different.</p> <p>An assistant running on hardware I control.<br><br> Speech recognition running locally.<br><br> The LLM running locally.<br><br> My automations staying local.<br><br> And most importantly, an AI model that <strong>doesn't automatically get permission to do whatever it wants on my machine</strong>.</p> <p>So I started building <strong>Nox</strong>.</p

Problem

<p>Alexa and Google Assistant are incredibly convenient.</p> <p>But there was one thing that kept bothering me:</p> <p><strong>Why does my personal assistant need somebody else's cloud to think?</strong></p> <p>I wanted something different.</p> <p>An assistant running on hardware I control.<br><br> Speech recognition running locally.<br><br> The LLM running locally.<br><br> My automations staying local.<br><br> And most importantly, an AI model that <strong>doesn't automatically get permission to do whatever it wants on my machine</strong>.</p> <p>So I started building <strong>Nox</strong>.</p

Outcome

<p>Alexa and Google Assistant are incredibly convenient.</p> <p>But there was one thing that kept bothering me:</p> <p><strong>Why does my personal assistant need somebody else's cloud to think?</strong></p> <p>I wanted something different.</p> <p>An assistant running on hardware I control.<br><br> Speech recognition running locally.<br><br> The LLM running locally.<br><br> My automations staying local.<br><br> And most importantly, an AI model that <strong>doesn't automatically get permission to do whatever it wants on my machine</strong>.</p> <p>So I started building <strong>Nox</strong>.</p

Evidence

I Built My Own Local-First AI Assistant in Go — Meet Nox

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