DIY AI Butler Is Simpler and More Useful Than Siri
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Summary
Geoffrey Litt has created an AI digital family assistant called Stevens using little more than a SQLite table and some cron jobs, and finds it far more useful than Siri, thanks to its personalised focus.
Stevens sends the family a daily brief via Telegram, including calendar events, appointments, weather notes, reminders and even a fun fact.
Users can also add new entries or ask questions on Telegram, with answers drawn from a notebook populated with entries drawn from family members’ Google calendars, weather APIs, delivery notifications and Telegram conversations.
LLMs are perfectly poised to handle and format the natural language required to generate daily briefs, making the process simple.
Litt says the system is not complex and encourages others to try it for themselves.
