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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?

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[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 2 points 5 months ago

You are not wrong, I read an article a while (like several years) ago from an amazon engineer who revealed they coulnd't wrap their minds around upgrading Alexa to the latest technologies. He told about them going in circles and people eventually leaving the company because of how bad of a mess it was. And it turns out they havn't made any progress since then, Alexa is still absolute garbage. It can't hear you when there is music, it can't hear you when you cook, it can't hear you from more than 5 meters, and even when it does hear you, it responds completely off the track and goes on and on, refusing to stop the nonsense