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Self-Hosted AI is pretty darn cool (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by chagall@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I don't consider myself very technical. I've never taken a computer science course and don't know python. I've learned some things like Linux, the command line, docker and networking/pfSense because I value my privacy. My point is that anyone can do this, even if you aren't technical.

I tried both LM Studio and Ollama. I prefer Ollama. Then you download models and use them to have your own private, personal GPT. I access it both on my local machine through the command line but I also installed Open WebUI in a docker container so I can access it on any device on my local network (I don't expose services to the internet).

Having a private ai/gpt is pretty cool. You can download and test new models. And it is private. Yes, there are ethical concerns about how the model got the training. I'm not minimizing those concerns. But if you want your own AI/GPT assistant, give it a try. I set it up in a couple of hours, and as I said... I'm not even that technical.

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[-] chagall@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I use my phone all the time, but I just use a wireguard VPN to tunnel into my home container of Open WebUI. Then I can interact with my desktop machine using a NVIDIA gpu. I'm currently testing mistral-nemo. It's pretty great but it gets a bit verbose sometimes.

[-] kureta@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago

I am also using open webui. Most LLMs are too verbose for me, so I created a model in open-webui with system prompt "Do not repeat the questions. Avoid giving lists as answers. Do not summarize the answer at the end. If asked a follow-up question, respond with only new information, do not repeat previously stated information." and named it No Nonsense.

[-] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 3 points 2 months ago

for some reason chatgpt responds well to “no yapping”

[-] chagall@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

That's really smart. I just found out about fabric yesterday and it is helping me with things like what you stated. Prompt engineering is a huge thing.

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