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So far I have tried to get it to read me my shoping list, turn on my desklight, and tell me how many hours until sundown. It wasn't able to do any of those things. I'm using llama3.1:8b. I have a 3080 12gb. I also tried mixtral:8x7b but it just says "unexpected intent error".

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[–] cubism_pitta@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

You may need to give your Assistant some tools.

Things like weather and time require the LLM to be able to fetch external data.

[–] colourlesspony@pawb.social 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, how does this work? Do I need to setup the tools in home assistant or do I need setup tools with system prompt / modelfile on the ollama server? The ollama integration says the AI instructions use homeassiant templating. Do I need to create a custom template prompt that passes the info to the ollama server in way that works with the tools? https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/configuration/templating/

[–] cubism_pitta@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

MY bad, I did not catch this was home assistant... I get the feeling that should be taken care of for you based on this

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/ollama/

Sorry to have to tell you... I don't know :(