macOSpilot
AI
desktop ai assistant
SHOW HN2023
430points
159comments
#70of 3,109 in 2023
Top 3%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
21 positive, 22 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 19 critical, out of 64 comments about the project. Thread score -0.05.
Idea: 10 for, 5 againstDesign: 1 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstPricing: 1 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for learning unfamiliar software, e.g. Ableton Live
From 2 comments
Just used it with the digital audio workstation Ableton Live. It is amazing! Its tips were spot-on. I can see how much time it will save me when I'm working with a software or…
thomashop on HNSo glad when I saw this, thanks for sharing this! It was exactly music production in Ableton was the spark that lit this idea in my head the other week. I tried to explain to a…
ralfelfving on HN
Cool idea and useful concept
From 3 comments
This is very cool! Thank you for working on it and sharing it with us.
ukuina on HNThis is brilliant!
knowsuchagency on HNThis is awesome
jackculpan on HN
Objections
Sends screenshots to a third party cloud service, privacy concern
From 2 comments
I mean it does send a screenshot of your screen off to a 3rd party, and that screenshot will most likely be used in future AI training sets. So... beware when you use it.
pelorat on HNWorth mentioning that if you are in a corporate environment, running a service that sends arbitrary desktop screenshots to a 3rd party cloud service is going to run afoul of…
swiftcoder on HN
Open source label misleading because it uses proprietary OpenAI API
From 3 comments
How is this open source when using a proprietary model. Misleading title
jimsimmons on HN> Open Source > off to OpenAI Vision Pick one
fake-name on HNThe title is clickbait. We have come across too many applications that are merely wrappers around OpenAI API calls, yet they still claim to be open source.
mwmercury on HN
Electron is heavy for this use case
From 2 comments
e-e-e-electron... for this..
ProfessorZoom on HN>macOSpilot runs NodeJS/Electron Can we have native aps, please? I would like the battery life on my M1 Mac to stay good. :)
DeathArrow on HN
Requests
Text input and text output instead of voice
From 3 comments
You should add an option for streaming text as the response instead of TTS. And also maybe text in place of the voice command as well. I have been tire-kicking a similar kind of…
jondwillis on HNI’d love to see a version of this that uses text input/output instead of voice. I often have someone sleeping in the room with me and don’t want to speak.
quinncom on HNI have a tangential question: my dad is old. I would love to be able to have this feature, or any voice access to an LLM, available to him via an easy-to-press external button.…
qup on HN
Support for local or self-hosted models
From 3 comments
Nice project, any plans to make it work with local LLMs rather than "open"AI?
smcleod on HNI would love to have something like this but using an open source model and without any network requests.
I_am_tiberius on HNSuch a shame it uses Vision API, i.e. it can not be replaced by some random self-hosted LLM.
netika on HN
Hide window automatically after response
From 1 comment
Love it! Will definitely use this when a quick screenshot will help specify what I am confused about. Is there a way to hide the window when I am not using it? i.e. I hit…
hackncheese on HN
Windows version
From 2 comments
This looks very cool. Does anyone know of something similar for Windows? (or does OP intend to extend support to Windows?)
lordswork on HNVery cool, would love to have a Windows version of this.
mdrzn on HN
Questions
Whether calling it OSX versus macOS changes results
From 1 comment
Did you find that calling it “OSX” in the prompt worked better than macOS? Or was that just an early choice that you didn’t spend much time on? I was skimming through the video…
e28eta on HN
Whether the app can click and type on screen or run keyboard shortcuts
From 2 comments
Hey, I was working on something to allow GPT-V to actually do stuff on the screen, click around and type, I tested on my Mac and it’s working pretty well, do you think it would…
rchaves on HNNo, my thought process never really stretched outside of what I built. I had this particular idea, then sat down to build it. I had some idea of getting OpenAI to respond with…
ralfelfving on HN
Alternatives named
Iris macOS GPT client
From 1 comment
People reading this should check out Iris[1]. I’ve been using it for about a month, and it’s the best macOS GPT client I’ve found. [1]: https://iris.fun/
kssreeram on HN
TypingMind
From 1 comment
I have a hard time saying how much this particular application cost to run, because I use the Voice+Vision APIs for so many different projects on a near daily basis and haven't…
ralfelfving on HN
Clipea
From 1 comment
Clipea is cool.
qainsights on HN
LocalAIVoiceChat and Linguflex
From 1 comment
Was following these two projects by someuser on Github which makes similar things possible with Local models. Sending screenshot to openai is expensive , if done every few…
Jayakumark on HN