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Pi 1.0

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  1. FacelessJim · · focus · HN ↗
    Love pi. I tried to run some local models and pi was the only one that actually worked decently because it didn’t have a gargantuan system prompt that would take minutes to prefill on my scrawny ass laptop.

    Been running it almost barebones vanilla for a couple of months. Just a bunch of basic extensions and some skills.

    Now, if only they could fix the very annoying bug of the history jumping back at the beginning if I am not a the end while the model is reasoning that would great.

    1. RickS · · focus · HN ↗
      Couldn't agree more. The vanilla openclaw install was this byzantine mess of MD files talking about souls and identities and such, it really put me off. Stripping back to a bare install of the underlying pi, it was delightfully minimal and easy to reason about. Excellent starting point for building an assistant agent without having to read or fight with a bunch of cruft on top.

      Couple skills to integrate with an obsidian MD task tracker, small chat interface on the phone made public via tailscale, and bam, a reminder bot you can text from the grocery store.

      1. AgentMasterRace · · focus · HN ↗
        you're comparing apples to oranges here...
        1. vergessenmir · · focus · HN ↗
          They're both harnesses, pi + cron/event trigger is 90% openclaw
          1. davedx · · focus · HN ↗
            Don't forget that all important whatsapp gateway
            1. vorticalbox · · focus · HN ↗
              There is a docker image that has an api to interact with WhatsApp and you can use the signal cli.

              This is what I did and then just wrote small skills so now pi can read and send messages for me.

        2. Medea · · focus · HN ↗
          More like comparing apple pie to apples. Turns out I just wanted the apples.
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