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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. simpaticoder · · focus · HN ↗
      You inspired me to try Pi out - so far it's worked flawlessly. Plugged it into OpenRouter and ~$.50 of Deepseek later I've installed llama.cpp and Llama 3.1. The local model doesn't work with Pi yet (and I know it will be bad and slow even if it does) but I'm curious to see what you can do on an 8GB consumer GPU these days...
      1. Otterly99 · · focus · HN ↗
        With 8GB I would recommend quantized versions of 9B models such as these:

        - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;unsloth&#x2F;Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;unsloth&#x2F;Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;empero-ai&#x2F;Qwen3.8-9B-Distill-GGUF" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;empero-ai&#x2F;Qwen3.8-9B-Distill-GGUF (unofficial Qwen 3.8-9B) - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;ornith-ai&#x2F;Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;ornith-ai&#x2F;Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF (my personnal favorite)

        1. Godsend69 · · focus · HN ↗

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