Leon: Open-source, self-hosted personal assistant

Re:Leon: Open-source, self-hosted personal assistant by _krii on Sunday September 04, 2022 @01:15PM (#32715297)

Looks like quite a lot of marketing put into this open-source project. Heavyweight glossy website with trendy TLD, emojis everywhere. Is this kind of thing typical in the JS world in particular? Seriously asking.

I'm trying to figure out what they are selling me, or what megacorp they are associated with, but I don't see it yet.

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Re:Leon: Open-source, self-hosted personal assistant by IMcD23 on Sunday September 04, 2022 @01:39PM (#32715559)

And yet, I set out to find what this thing can do. I read the README.

  Today, the most interesting part is about his core and the way he can scale up. He is pretty young but can easily scale to have new features (skills). You can find what he is able to do by browsing the packages list.
  Sounds good for you? Then let's get started!

The packages list is a dead link. https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/tree/develop/packages

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Re:Leon: Open-source, self-hosted personal assistant by kenny87 on Sunday September 04, 2022 @04:01PM (#32717122)

> The packages list is a dead link. https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/tree/develop/packages

From the blog ...

"As of now, 'module' and 'packages' no longer exist. Instead, they’ve been replaced by 'skills'."

New link is https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/tree/develop/skills

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Re:Leon: Open-source, self-hosted personal assistant by jimktrains2 on Sunday September 04, 2022 @04:59PM (#32717671)

All those folders just contain a single json file with the name of the skill category in it? I don't see any actual features?

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Re:Leon: Open-source, self-hosted personal assistant by revolvingocelot on Sunday September 04, 2022 @08:01PM (#32718981)

Not all those folders. Try utilities or news or leon or games or social_communication. You could be forgiven for thinking it was all of them, though -- not having anything in weather or music_audio, for a moment I thought so too.

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Re:Leon: Open-source, self-hosted personal assistant by jrm4 on Sunday September 04, 2022 @02:05PM (#32715831)

Right? I'm finding this problem everywhere. When checking out new software, it's becoming more and more difficult to determine what to do with "good looking marketing," and it nearly cuts perfectly in roughly 3 ways; you're likely either a dedicated whatever-size team making something great that happens to have good marketing; you're a small team pushing garbage and putting all your money in marketing, or you're a megacorp (e.g. likely not great)

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Re:Leon: Open-source, self-hosted personal assistant by arisAlexis on Sunday September 04, 2022 @05:13PM (#32717784)

This is overly suspicious. The guy made a nice effort and open sources it. Would you prefer he had it closed source or sold it?

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Re:Leon: Open-source, self-hosted personal assistant by Louistiti on Monday September 05, 2022 @01:05AM (#32720753)

Thanks.

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Re:Leon: Open-source, self-hosted personal assistant by yewenjie on Sunday September 04, 2022 @01:20PM (#32715337)

> Is this kind of thing typical in the JS world in particular?

Yes, pretty common in the frontend world.

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Re:Leon: Open-source, self-hosted personal assistant by coscorrodrift on Sunday September 04, 2022 @04:33PM (#32717424)

>Heavyweight glossy website with trendy TLD, emojis everywhere. Is this kind of thing typical in the JS world in particular?

yeah in frontend projects/dataviz stuff for sure

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Re:Leon: Open-source, self-hosted personal assistant by Louistiti on Monday September 05, 2022 @01:04AM (#32720745)

No mega corp, I'm just a passionate guy who spend my free time to work on Leon. Is there anything wrong with that?

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Re:Leon: Open-source, self-hosted personal assistant by fxtentacle on Sunday September 04, 2022 @02:18PM (#32716011)

It's a showcase for a front-end framework. See the link at the bottom. https://vercel.com/

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Re:Leon: Open-source, self-hosted personal assistant by wetmore on Sunday September 04, 2022 @03:25PM (#32716753)

Vercel is not a front-end framework. Also that's a sponsorship link.

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Re:Leon: Open-source, self-hosted personal assistant by yunohn on Sunday September 04, 2022 @03:39PM (#32716910)

Sure, but vercel has nothing to do with the UI look. It’s a framework for developing the overall application, not the components or designs.

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