Any experiences with a self-hosted assistant like the modern Google Assistant? Looking for something LLM-powered that is smarter than older assistants that would just try to call 3rd party tools directly and miss or misunderstand requests half of the time.

I’d like integration with a mobile app to use it from the phone and while driving. I see Home Assistant has an Android Auto integration. Has anyone used this, or another similar option? Any blatant limitations?

  • Eager EagleOPEnglish
    6•7 hours ago
    1. They can and do; 2. LLMs can do tool calling just fine, even self-hosted ones.
    • artyomEnglish
      1•7 hours ago

      LOL they can’t even reliably turn the lights on, WTF are you talking about?

      • Eager EagleOPEnglish
        2•6 hours ago

        maybe last you tried it was over 6 months ago, maybe you’re using the old google assistant, or idk, but it definitely works for me

        • artyomEnglish
          2•6 hours ago

          Everything I’ve read says Gemini is like 10x worse than Google Assistant.